Who are we?
HISTORY
The Catholic Community Mère du Divin Amour was born from the conversion of Brother Jean Emmanuel Clément AKOBE on January 29, 1989, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. It has emerged from the grace of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. It was definitively recognized on May 19, 2012, by the Archbishop of Abidjan and is composed of married people, singles, clerics, consecrated lay brothers and sisters, and religious. It includes within it two religious institutes: male and female.
VOCATION
Our vocation 'Being Love in the Church and the World' consists in bearing witness to the essence of the Gospel message, the distinctive and characteristic sign of the disciples of Jesus Christ. This witness is called to be realized both within the Church our Mother in all its components, and in the world.
Marian Spirituality
Although being a Community living from the charismatic experience, due to our origin (Charismatic Renewal), it nevertheless remains MARIAN. The Virgin MARY is for us the greatest charismatic and mystic of the Church. With MARY, we want to build a civilization of love through the power of the Holy Spirit. Knowing the heart of her Son, this heart that loved the world so much, MARY helps us discover the love for the poor, the marginalized. We are increasingly drawn to the poor, our lords. In them, we find our LORD JESUS because he said: 'I was hungry, thirsty... I was naked, sick, in prison...».
The frequent apparitions of MARY today in the world are for us a sign of the times.
Like a mother who comes to prepare her daughter for the wedding, so MARY comes today to prepare the Church for the Wedding Feast of the Lamb.
'We want to seek with you, in our lives, the steps of God, Virgin Mary.'.
The Community is represented in 25 countries across 4 continents:
- Africa : vory Coast, Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea Conakry, Senegal, Niger, Benin, Togo, Gabon, Cameroon
- Europe : France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Norway, England, Switzerland
- America : Canada, United States, Martinique, Guyana, Guadeloupe
- Asie : South Korea