Affiliated members

In the Beatitudes Family, connected to the Community, young people, couples, single people, deacons, and diocesan priests can live their daily lives according to the spirituality of the Community by taking on a commitment as “affiliated members.” There are several types of commitment and ways of belonging to the Beatitudes Family.

The disciples

of the lamb

It’s for young people ages 16 to 30. It is for young people who, having had a personal conversion experience, choose Christ as the only Lord and Master of their lives. They meet together regularly in a home and bear witness to their belonging to the Disciples of the Lamb through their faith and their concrete commitment in the Church and in society.

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THE FRIENDS

OF THE LAMB

“They follow the Lamb wherever he goes.” (Rev 14:6)

The friends of the Lamb are lay members or clerics of all ages who want to live according to the spirituality of the Beatitudes. Making an annual commitment, they express their desire to lead a life of regular prayer based on the community liturgy and are committed to actively participating in the life and mission of the Community.

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The members of these fraternities are diocesan or religious priests who wish to live the spirituality of the Community in their place of mission. They meet in local fraternity with priests of the Community to live fraternal times and common missions.

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    Sr Thérèse de la Sainte Face

    testimony of

    Sr. Therese of the Holy Face

    My name is Sr, Thérèse of the Holy Face (a reference to the face of Christ for the uninitiated). I am a French national from Guadeloupe (West Indies). I have been a member of the Community for 20 years. Jesus came and plucked me from university in Paris where I was studying mathematics.

    From early childhood I received a basic religious education. When I left my island for mainland France I entered, at every level, into a phase of autonomy to which my faith was not imune: what sort of a Christian was I? Who was Christ for me? What importance did the Eucharist have in my life? Was it simply a tradition I had to carry on with?

    With all these questions going through my mind, I came across a prayer group which became the channel of a significant spiritual experience. I discovered a living God not at all distant from my life. I can share two elements of that experience: in front of Jesus exposed in the Blessed Sacrament I tasted God’s infinite love for me, I had met Someone who loved me in a unique way. Furthermore, when a few members of the prayer group prayed for me, I saw my whole life in an instant and was made aware of God’s faithfulness at various moments of my life. I had touched something of God, something great and beautiful that nothing and nobody could rob me of. Not only was I convinced of God’s existence but I knew from within that He was in me and with me.

    Faced with such Love a calling to religious life (first experienced at about 12 years of age) resurfaced in my heart: a desire to give my whole life to God in order to love Him and make His Love known.

    During the time of discernment that followed I providentially met a person at the Faculty who was going on a retreat with the Community. I decided to go on that same retreat as well to find out God’s will for me. I have not been disappointed!

    I was struck by the liturgy, the fervent praise expressed in this community, the quality of fraternal life, the beauty of God emanating from the very simple quality of life, as well as its evangelization outreach. I, therefore, chose the Community because it was apparent to me that my great desire to give myself to God could find its full expression in a life where contemplation and mission intermingled so strongly.

    Religious life for me is a means to love to the full. It is a way that shows that God exists and that it is worthwhile to consecrate one’s whole life to Him. Every day I learn to surrender and let myself be enlightened by God and to become ever more available and ready to make Him known and loved. “The wind blows where it will. You hear the sound it makes but you do not know where it comes from, or where it goes. So it is with everyone begotten of the Spirit (Jn 3,8) . To follow Christ is an adventure: letting God constantly surprise us and remaining open to renewal in the Spirit…

     Sr. Therese of the Holy Face

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    Balazs

    TESTIMONY OF

    Père Balazs

    I am originally from Hungary. I was ordained in 2004. After my ordination I studied biblical theology (New Testament) in Munich. I served in several parishes and also taught biblical theology. Since September 2018, I have been in charge of seminarians in the diocese of Veszprém and teach at the college. In addition, I have become a university chaplain: my role is to gather, accompany and evangelise the students.

    Je connais la Communauté des Béatitudes depuis vingt ans. Dès le début, j’y ai expérimenté un véritable esprit familial : je m’y suis tout de suite senti chez moi ! Ma vocation est d’être prêtre diocésain, mais la Communauté est pour moi un vrai foyer, dans lequel je peux retourner pour puiser de la force en me plongeant dans la spiritualité communautaire. Je peux ensuite transmettre cette spiritualité aux personnes qui m’entourent.

    Quand a été lancée la Fraternité des Clercs des Béatitudes en Hongrie, j’ai tout de suite saisi l’occasion de m’engager. C’était le 20 mai 2015. Depuis je réalise de plus en plus combien je reçois des charismes de la Communauté et je ne pourrais plus imaginer ma vie personnelle et sacerdotale sans elle.

    Père Balazs

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    Sr Thérèse de la Sainte Face

    testimony of

    Sr. Therese of the Holy Face

    My name is Sr, Thérèse of the Holy Face (a reference to the face of Christ for the uninitiated). I am a French national from Guadeloupe (West Indies). I have been a member of the Community for 20 years. Jesus came and plucked me from university in Paris where I was studying mathematics.

    From early childhood I received a basic religious education. When I left my island for mainland France I entered, at every level, into a phase of autonomy to which my faith was not imune: what sort of a Christian was I? Who was Christ for me? What importance did the Eucharist have in my life? Was it simply a tradition I had to carry on with?

    With all these questions going through my mind, I came across a prayer group which became the channel of a significant spiritual experience. I discovered a living God not at all distant from my life. I can share two elements of that experience: in front of Jesus exposed in the Blessed Sacrament I tasted God’s infinite love for me, I had met Someone who loved me in a unique way. Furthermore, when a few members of the prayer group prayed for me, I saw my whole life in an instant and was made aware of God’s faithfulness at various moments of my life. I had touched something of God, something great and beautiful that nothing and nobody could rob me of. Not only was I convinced of God’s existence but I knew from within that He was in me and with me.

    Faced with such Love a calling to religious life (first experienced at about 12 years of age) resurfaced in my heart: a desire to give my whole life to God in order to love Him and make His Love known.

    During the time of discernment that followed I providentially met a person at the Faculty who was going on a retreat with the Community. I decided to go on that same retreat as well to find out God’s will for me. I have not been disappointed!

    I was struck by the liturgy, the fervent praise expressed in this community, the quality of fraternal life, the beauty of God emanating from the very simple quality of life, as well as its evangelization outreach. I, therefore, chose the Community because it was apparent to me that my great desire to give myself to God could find its full expression in a life where contemplation and mission intermingled so strongly.

    Religious life for me is a means to love to the full. It is a way that shows that God exists and that it is worthwhile to consecrate one’s whole life to Him. Every day I learn to surrender and let myself be enlightened by God and to become ever more available and ready to make Him known and loved. “The wind blows where it will. You hear the sound it makes but you do not know where it comes from, or where it goes. So it is with everyone begotten of the Spirit (Jn 3,8) . To follow Christ is an adventure: letting God constantly surprise us and remaining open to renewal in the Spirit…

     Sr. Therese of the Holy Face

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    Balazs

    TESTIMONY OF

    Père Balazs

    I am originally from Hungary. I was ordained in 2004. After my ordination I studied biblical theology (New Testament) in Munich. I served in several parishes and also taught biblical theology. Since September 2018, I have been in charge of seminarians in the diocese of Veszprém and teach at the college. In addition, I have become a university chaplain: my role is to gather, accompany and evangelise the students.

    Je connais la Communauté des Béatitudes depuis vingt ans. Dès le début, j’y ai expérimenté un véritable esprit familial : je m’y suis tout de suite senti chez moi ! Ma vocation est d’être prêtre diocésain, mais la Communauté est pour moi un vrai foyer, dans lequel je peux retourner pour puiser de la force en me plongeant dans la spiritualité communautaire. Je peux ensuite transmettre cette spiritualité aux personnes qui m’entourent.

    Quand a été lancée la Fraternité des Clercs des Béatitudes en Hongrie, j’ai tout de suite saisi l’occasion de m’engager. C’était le 20 mai 2015. Depuis je réalise de plus en plus combien je reçois des charismes de la Communauté et je ne pourrais plus imaginer ma vie personnelle et sacerdotale sans elle.

    Père Balazs

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    Hajni and Tobias

    TESTIMONY OF

    Hajni and Tobias

    My name is Hajni, I am 23 years old, Hungarian and married for two years. I have just finished my studies to become a kindergarten teacher. I met the Community at the age of 13 during a youth camp in Homokkomarom (Camp Mont-Thabor)

    It was at this camp that I first met my husband, Tobias. He is 27 years old and a computer scientist. Tobias has known the Community since he was a child because he has participated in several community programmes with his parents since the 1990s. He really feels at home in the Beatitudes. We live in Piliscsaba, a town near Budapest. We are currently expecting our first baby. We like to go hiking together and we participate in the daily life of our parish.

    We participated in the formation of the Disciples of the Lamb. The Community has become for us a place of renewal and support in prayer. It is also the place where we can exercise apostolates: I sing in the choir during the youth camps and my husband helps with the more technical aspects of the organisation.

    It is for these reasons that we signed up as Friends of the Lamb in 2017. This commitment gives a framework and spiritual impetus to our lives by making us taste God’s goodness and gives us the opportunity to authentically live our Christian life in gratitude and freedom.

    Hajni and Tobias

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    Hajni and Tobias

    TESTIMONY OF

    Hajni and Tobias

    My name is Hajni, I am 23 years old, Hungarian and married for two years. I have just finished my studies to become a kindergarten teacher. I met the Community at the age of 13 during a youth camp in Homokkomarom (Camp Mont-Thabor)

    It was at this camp that I first met my husband, Tobias. He is 27 years old and a computer scientist. Tobias has known the Community since he was a child because he has participated in several community programmes with his parents since the 1990s. He really feels at home in the Beatitudes. We live in Piliscsaba, a town near Budapest. We are currently expecting our first baby. We like to go hiking together and we participate in the daily life of our parish.

    We participated in the formation of the Disciples of the Lamb. The Community has become for us a place of renewal and support in prayer. It is also the place where we can exercise apostolates: I sing in the choir during the youth camps and my husband helps with the more technical aspects of the organisation.

    It is for these reasons that we signed up as Friends of the Lamb in 2017. This commitment gives a framework and spiritual impetus to our lives by making us taste God’s goodness and gives us the opportunity to authentically live our Christian life in gratitude and freedom.

    Hajni and Tobias

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    TESTIMONY OF

    Pauline

    Becoming a Disciple of the Lamb answered a deep need for unity and meaning for me: that my life with Christ should not only be “alive” at the Beatitudes when I was there, but in all my daily life. It was also a way for me to get closer to this Community that I love very much and in which I found something to nourish my faith.

    The demands of this commitment are not easy to keep every day, but it pulls me up. I have discovered how light it is to carry the cross of Christ, which we receive on the day of our commitment. The meetings of the Disciples at the Community are always times of grace where I can draw new strength to live my faith in everyday life.

    I am now entering my third year as a Disciple, and I can say that it is no longer me who carries the cross, it is the cross that carries my life.

    Pauline

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    TESTIMONY OF

    Pauline

    Becoming a Disciple of the Lamb answered a deep need for unity and meaning for me: that my life with Christ should not only be “alive” at the Beatitudes when I was there, but in all my daily life. It was also a way for me to get closer to this Community that I love very much and in which I found something to nourish my faith.

    The demands of this commitment are not easy to keep every day, but it pulls me up. I have discovered how light it is to carry the cross of Christ, which we receive on the day of our commitment. The meetings of the Disciples at the Community are always times of grace where I can draw new strength to live my faith in everyday life.

    I am now entering my third year as a Disciple, and I can say that it is no longer me who carries the cross, it is the cross that carries my life.

    Pauline

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    Clément

    TESTIMONY OF

    Clément

    On Sunday 7 October, I renewed my commitment as a Disciple of the Lamb. This is why.

    Because Jesus Christ is my only Master. Who else would I follow? He is the one who makes all my joy, the constant presence in my heart that remains whatever the difficulties, the moments of joy or doubt. When all my certainties are gone, when I miss my friends, he is faithful and he always answers when I call him. He is the rock on which I anchor my heart, the keel that stabilises my life. He has never failed me.

    Because in Jesus alone I find my happiness. Recently, as I was trying to be virtuous (it can happen), I realised that no matter how perfect I am, how perfectly I act, I will not be fulfilled. The only way to be filled with happiness is to live in the Heart of Jesus. I have never found happiness comparable to that which I have experienced a few times before the Face of the Lord during adoration, or during communion at Mass. There is no happiness like that of feeling the burning presence of Jesus in one’s heart. It is in the Heart of Jesus that I blossom, that I discover myself as the Father wanted me to be, that I feel free, known and loved. This presence that dwells in me is alive, it is also a word. At the age of eight (by dint of asking), I received the great grace of being able to enter into dialogue with Jesus, to discuss with him in an intelligible way. Today, twelve years later, a very deep friendship has taken root between Jesus and me, and from this comes my joy.

    Because I still want to receive the graces that God wants to give me. The more I receive, the more my desire grows. The more I love Jesus, the more I desire to know him, to deepen his mysteries and to remain in his love. The more I ask, the more I receive. God has such a desire to make himself known and to give himself! And it is enough to ask!

    Finally, I cannot keep for myself the love that God has for others. To be a Disciple of the Lamb is also to be a visible witness of Jesus and what he does in my life, so that others can see what great love God wants to give them.

    Clément, 20 years old

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    Clément

    TESTIMONY OF

    Clément

    On Sunday 7 October, I renewed my commitment as a Disciple of the Lamb. This is why.

    Because Jesus Christ is my only Master. Who else would I follow? He is the one who makes all my joy, the constant presence in my heart that remains whatever the difficulties, the moments of joy or doubt. When all my certainties are gone, when I miss my friends, he is faithful and he always answers when I call him. He is the rock on which I anchor my heart, the keel that stabilises my life. He has never failed me.

    Because in Jesus alone I find my happiness. Recently, as I was trying to be virtuous (it can happen), I realised that no matter how perfect I am, how perfectly I act, I will not be fulfilled. The only way to be filled with happiness is to live in the Heart of Jesus. I have never found happiness comparable to that which I have experienced a few times before the Face of the Lord during adoration, or during communion at Mass. There is no happiness like that of feeling the burning presence of Jesus in one’s heart. It is in the Heart of Jesus that I blossom, that I discover myself as the Father wanted me to be, that I feel free, known and loved. This presence that dwells in me is alive, it is also a word. At the age of eight (by dint of asking), I received the great grace of being able to enter into dialogue with Jesus, to discuss with him in an intelligible way. Today, twelve years later, a very deep friendship has taken root between Jesus and me, and from this comes my joy.

    Because I still want to receive the graces that God wants to give me. The more I receive, the more my desire grows. The more I love Jesus, the more I desire to know him, to deepen his mysteries and to remain in his love. The more I ask, the more I receive. God has such a desire to make himself known and to give himself! And it is enough to ask!

    Finally, I cannot keep for myself the love that God has for others. To be a Disciple of the Lamb is also to be a visible witness of Jesus and what he does in my life, so that others can see what great love God wants to give them.

    Clément, 20 years old

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    TESTIMONY OF

    Marie

    I am 30 years old. I am married with three children aged 5, 3 and a newborn. My husband is not baptized although we were married in the church and our children are. I am a high school teacher.

    I made my first commitment as a Friend of the Lamb of Nouan-le-Fuzelier house in February 2014. Since then, I have renewed it every year.

    It was in 2005 that I met the Community of the Beatitudes and it was love at first sight. As a musician, I was immediately seduced by the songs and the beauty of the liturgy. As time went by, I really got closer to the Community and when in 2007 the person in charge of the home I was attending told me about this commitment as a Friend of the Lamb, it spoke to me straight away. This commitment corresponded exactly to the link I wanted to maintain with the Community. In the end, it was quite different and after a geographical and spiritual distance for some time, I found my way back to the Community in 2011 on the occasion of the WYD in Madrid. And quickly, the call to become a Friend of the Lamb was felt again. It seemed essential to my spiritual balance. I realised that I need the Community to always bring me back to Jesus and that it was important for me to have a role, a place for the Community.

    On a day-to-day basis, this commitment gives me unfailing support, the assurance of having brothers and sisters who carry me in their prayers, and the pleasure of truly being together as a family during weekends at the home. I also have the joy of having been able to “export” the Rose Petal Evenings to my parish: every year in October, two members of the Community come to lead this vigil with me, which has now been rooted in the parish culture for five years!

    Marie

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    TESTIMONY OF

    Marie

    I am 30 years old. I am married with three children aged 5, 3 and a newborn. My husband is not baptized although we were married in the church and our children are. I am a high school teacher.

    I made my first commitment as a Friend of the Lamb of Nouan-le-Fuzelier house in February 2014. Since then, I have renewed it every year.

    It was in 2005 that I met the Community of the Beatitudes and it was love at first sight. As a musician, I was immediately seduced by the songs and the beauty of the liturgy. As time went by, I really got closer to the Community and when in 2007 the person in charge of the home I was attending told me about this commitment as a Friend of the Lamb, it spoke to me straight away. This commitment corresponded exactly to the link I wanted to maintain with the Community. In the end, it was quite different and after a geographical and spiritual distance for some time, I found my way back to the Community in 2011 on the occasion of the WYD in Madrid. And quickly, the call to become a Friend of the Lamb was felt again. It seemed essential to my spiritual balance. I realised that I need the Community to always bring me back to Jesus and that it was important for me to have a role, a place for the Community.

    On a day-to-day basis, this commitment gives me unfailing support, the assurance of having brothers and sisters who carry me in their prayers, and the pleasure of truly being together as a family during weekends at the home. I also have the joy of having been able to “export” the Rose Petal Evenings to my parish: every year in October, two members of the Community come to lead this vigil with me, which has now been rooted in the parish culture for five years!

    Marie

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    Terez

    Je suis hongroise, j’ai 23 ans et je fais actuellement des études à Budapest pour devenir institutrice.

    L’année dernière, j’ai participé pour la deuxième fois au Festival Thabor, camp de jeunes de la Communauté des Béatitudes à Homokkomarom en Hongrie.  Ce camp a été très béni : je me suis sentie très près de Dieu et j’ai reçu beaucoup de grâces. Ma petite sœur était déjà Disciple de l’Agneau et m’avait souvent parlé de la formation, de l’ambiance, de ses expériences et des temps passés avec Dieu, si bien qu’à la fin de l’été, j’ai décidé d’appartenir moi aussi à la Communauté : je voulais retourner à Homokkomarom, je voulais être Disciple de l’Agneau !

    Je connaissais déjà la spiritualité et les prières de la Communauté des Béatitudes par mes parents qui sont eux aussi membres de la Communauté. C’est pourquoi je m’y sens vraiment chez moi.

    Je suis actuellement en deuxième année de formation. Depuis que j’appartiens à la Communauté, j’ai forgé de nombreuses relations précieuses, et j’ai reçu énormément de Dieu. J’ai découvert des perspectives nouvelles qui m’aident dans ma relation avec Dieu. Cela a renforcé ma foi et m’a appris à devenir une chrétienne plus adulte et plus consciente de sa foi. J’ai également pu faire l’expérience du bonheur d’être ensemble, en Communauté, avec les sœurs et avec les autres !

    Mon engagement a été quelque chose de très intense. Je suis heureuse d’avoir pu dire un « oui » conscient à Dieu. Cet engagement me donne beaucoup de force et me soutient sur ma route pour que je puisse m’approcher toujours plus du Bon Dieu ! Persévérer au quotidien est parfois un vrai combat, mais l’engagement est un point sûr auquel je peux toujours revenir. De plus, je ne suis pas seule et cela me fortifie : on fait cet engagement ensemble, on est en communion et on peut se fortifier les uns les autres à travers nos expériences et nos combats quotidiens.

    Terez

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