Events

Each year, for about the last ten years, a garage sale is organized on May 1st at the Mother House in Saint Jacut. This year was a great success!  There was a big turnout in the morning thanks to a little help from the local media. Nolwenn Huchet, a journalist with the newspaper, Les Infos des pays de Vilaine, had written a nice article publicizing the event. Then Theo Boche, another young journalist with France Bleue Armorique, discovered this article in his press review, and came to interview…

At the end of March, the Associates from France, the Sisters at the Mother House and surroundings, and a few members of the CVX Loire-Atlantique, came together for a time of discovery and personal enrichment on a topic of current interest: Accompanying those at the end of life until their last breath. To help us in our reflection, we benefitted from the competence, humanity and humility of Sister Roxane, Prioress of the Augustinian Monastery at Malestroit and that of Dr. Bécuwe, an oncologist for the Palliative Care…

Bethany House, located on the grounds of the Mother House in Saint Jacut, has become (at least on the ground floor) a place to care for children from 0 to 3 years of age. If you want more information in French, you can click on the following link: https://www.ouest-france.fr/bretagne/saint-jacut-les-pins-56220/a-saint-jacut-les-pins-la-congregation-accueille-une-maison-d-assistantes-maternelles-45c3e96e-b040-11ed-af65-84fc37e6e304 Bethany House has welcomed various groups of young, and not so young, people for weekends or longer stays since 1989. They came from the local sector, deanery, diocese, region and even from as far as Paris.  It was…