Monastic Communities of Jerusalem

Love.

Open your whole being to the love of God with which God first loved you. Anchor yourself in this certitude, the only onethat gives meaning, strength and joy to your life: his love for you will never go away nor his covenant of peace with you ever be overthrown. God's gift and his call are irrevocable. He has engraved your name on the palms of his hands.

Jerusalem Community
Rule of Life, § 1

The choice to bear the name of "Communities" is based on three main reasons.

First, because it's an evangelical reality: Jesus clearly calls all his disciples to call themselves brothers, and the apostles, Peter, Paul, John, all put it in those terms.

Then because St Basile, father of the monks in the Eastern Tradition and to whom we refer a lot, suggests that those who want to live that way constitute "communities" (adelphotès).

Finally because, in the current mentality and especially near the young generations, this term is well received and the reality it evokes is well appreciated.

Thus we followed the Scripture, the Tradition and the call of the Church of this time.

Br Pierre-Marie
The 25 years of Jerusalem,
Living Sources, no 94, November 2000, page 185