KAIRE comes to Minsteracres
Kaire is an ecumenical body related to DIAKONIA, and meets every two or three years.
This year, a group of 41 nuns, deaconesses and an ordained Anglican minister of every
Christian denomination came together at Minsteracres in May for their
three-yearly meeting. Following on from their recent meetings in Italy, Germany
and Switzerland, the north east of England was chosen as the cradle of British
Christianity.
Meaning
rejoice (it was the first word of the angel’s greeting to Mary: “Rejoice so
highly favoured. The Lord is with you”), Kaire is an inter-confessional group
of people in monastic, diaconal or active service in their church, who are
moved by the Spirit to a conversion to prayer, to one another and to unity.
Many
of the women are superiors in Anglican, Catholic, Orthodox or Protestant
communities, and come together as a group to maintain a dynamic between the
structures of the church and the spiritual life by prayer, study and
friendship.
The
aim of the meeting, with this year’s theme ‘Pilgrims with a burning heart’, is
to be a focus of communion to discover again the thing which is at the heart of
their vocations; to encourage an ecumenical and spiritual experience in the
service of humankind; and to be a ferment in society in the discernment of
church unity.
“What
characterises us all is longing for reconciliation and renewed communion in the
Church and among the churches,” explains Sr Alice Reuter,
secretary to the group.
Their
approach certainly struck a chord with Sr Therese O’Regan, one of Minsteracres’
community, “I’m thrilled to meet this group for the first time,” she said. “In
their living witness of church unity they represent what I aspire to as a woman
in the church.”
Source: Minsteracres
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