Monastic Fraternities of Jerusalem

The brothers and sisters of the communities of Jerusalem are a monastic community, which was founded in 1975 by Brother Pierre -Marie Delfieux with the aim to support the spirituality of solitude of the desert, as it was lived by Charles de Foucauld in the heart of the cities. The rule of the order of the Communities laid down in the book of life written by Delfieux 1978 ( Livre de vie). " The desert is today as well in the city ... Be now a city dweller with the townsfolk. "

The brothers and sisters to work for their living part-time in a career, while they devote the other half of the day the contemplative prayer and community. Since their spirituality is based on life in the big city, they founded their communities in the heart of large cities and also at places of pilgrimage. With its solemn and meditative designed, ostkirchlich influenced Liturgy of the Hours they are there often spiritual centers.

The Communities of Jerusalem always consist of a nurse and a fraternity at a place where they live there separately for rent, but celebrate their worship together. The communities included in the year 2007, approximately 200 members from 30 different countries; they live in communities in

• Germany: Cologne
• Belgium: Brussels
• France: Paris, Mont -Saint- Michel, Vezelay, Strasbourg, Magdala, Ossun ( Hautes- Pyrénées)
• Italy: Florence, Rome, Pistoia
• Canada: Montreal
• Poland: Warsaw

The associated with the communities of Jerusalem lay community " family of Jerusalem " has about 1000 members.

Since April 2009, live and pray the monastic communities of Jerusalem in the heart of Cologne in the church Gross St. Martin, which was entrusted to them by Archbishop Joachim Cardinal Meisner.