๐‚๐ž๐ง๐š๐œ๐ฅ๐ž ๐‡๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐‹๐ฒ๐จ๐ง ๐…๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐ž๐ซ๐ž

๐‚๐ž๐ง๐š๐œ๐ฅ๐ž ๐‡๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐‹๐ฒ๐จ๐ง ๐…๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐ž๐ซ๐ž

๐‡๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐›๐ž๐ž๐ง ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฅ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ก๐š๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฉ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ž ๐š ๐๐ข๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ ๐๐ž๐œ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐ ๐จ๐จ๐? ๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ก๐ž๐ฅ๐ฉ๐ž๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐š๐œ๐ญ?

In February 1842, the Congregation decided to establish a community in Lyon. The house was poorly situated, barely livable, and not at all suited for retreats. Yet Saint Thรฉrรจse took charge, remaining there with one other sister and trusting that, in Godโ€™s time, something better would come.

A year later, providence opened a new door: land near the Church of Fourviรจre, an important pilgrimage site, became available for purchase. With little time to wait, Saint Thรฉrรจse prayerfully took the step of moving forward in acquiring the land.

By 1844, the new house was completed: a fruit of trust, courage, and surrender to Godโ€™s providence.

“In Lyon, on Fourviรจre hill, the house of the Sisters of the Cenacle opens onto a tableau of light: the โ€œCenacleโ€ from the beginning of the Acts of the Apostles, according to the painter Arcabas. This colourful scene was created in 2005 for the bicentenary of the birth of Thรฉrรจse Couderc, founder of the Congregation of Our Lady of the Cenacle.”

Source: https://cenacle-gen.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Writing-month-12_EN_painting-Arcabas_Sr-G-Cote.pdf
“The large ochre-colored house next to the Basilica of Fourviรจre, on the โ€œpraying hill,โ€ has been an Ehpad (nursing home) since 2004, where elderly Sisters of the Cenacle live.

The elderly sisters who live here, at the Ehpad Thรฉrรจse Couderc, are โ€œsent on a mission to live out to the very end the total gift of their lives to God for the salvation of the world.โ€ Prayer plays a central role in their livesโ€”a prayer shaped and nourished by the reality of our world, the Church, and the congregation.”

Translated with DeepL

Source of photo and caption: https://www.ndcenacle.org/communaute/communaute-de-lyon-fourviere/

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