«Church of tomorrow » EN

Celebrating 50 years of existence is certainly an opportunity to remember and give thanks for the benefits granted by God. But it is also, and this is what the Chemin Neuf Community has chosen to do, an opportunity to bring together friends from different Christian backgrounds and to look, with them and thanks to them, at the challenges facing the Church and the world today. This is how 150 people came together at Hautecombe Abbey on 19 August for a day of meetings, exchanges, celebrations and fraternity, with particularly ecumenical connotations. "Tomorrow's Church. Scrutinising the signs of the times, rising to the challenges; making hope blossom". The day was punctuated by four round-table discussions, featuring contributions from leading Church figures such as Cardinal J.M. Aveline, Archbishop J. Welby, Fr L. Fabre, founder of Chemin Neuf, Mennonite Pastor A-C. Graber, Mgr E. Vétö, Sr E. Sogbou and Fr F. Michon, current General Moderator of the Chemin Neuf Community. The themes chosen for these round tables reflected our attention to the clamour of the earth and the signs of the times: the situation of migrants, ecumenism, interculturality, synodality and our presence among the poorest.