Pierre-Marie Delfieux

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P. Pierre-Marie Delfieux (2001)

Pierre-Marie Delfieux (born December 4, 1934 in Campuac , Aveyron department , † February 21, 2013 in La Ferté-Imbault , Loir-et-Cher department ) was a French priest and founder of the communities of Jerusalem ( Fraternités monastiques de Jerusalem ).

Life

Pierre Delfieux, one of six children, attended the small seminar Lycée Immaculée Conception in Espalion . He was a classmate of Georges Pierre Soubrier , who later became Bishop of Nantes. Delfieux entered the seminary in Rodez and studied theology at the Catholic Institute of Toulouse and philosophy and social sciences at the Sorbonne in Paris . After completing his two-year military service, he became a pastor at Rodez Cathedral in 1961. In 1965 Jean-Marie Lustiger brought him to the Center Richelieu as a student chaplain ; Delfieux met Jacques Perrier (later Bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes), Francis Deniau (later Bishop of Nevers) and Guy Gaucher (later Auxiliary Bishop in Bayeux) there. Pastor Delfieux organized pilgrimages to Italy, Spain and the Holy Land as well as to the places of activity of Blessed Brother Charles of Jesus ( Charles de Foucauld ).

In May 1968 Delfieux withdrew to the Hermitage La Fraternité, founded in 1901 in Béni Abbès , an oasis town in western Algeria . There lives the community of the Little Brothers of Jesus , a religious community that refers to Brother Karl. Pastor Delfieux later moved to the Assekrem Plateau in the Ahaggar Mountains in southern Algeria, where the hermitage of Blessed Brother Charles was located. Delfieux built the hermitage "Bethlehem" there; he lived there in contemplation and study alone for a year and a second with another brother.

In 1974 Delfieux left the Assekrem and founded the Community of Jerusalem on the initiative of François Cardinal Marty , Archbishop of Paris. For this he was made available to St-Gervais-St-Protais , a parish church in the 4th arrondissement of Paris . On November 1, 1975 the liturgy was celebrated there for the first time by some friars ; on December 8, 1976 for the first time with the community of sisters, also founded by Delfieux. In 1978/79 the community was supplemented with the name Jerusalem . Further branches of the community were added. On May 31, 1996, the monastic communities of Jerusalem were recognized by the Archbishop of Paris, Jean-Marie Lustiger, as a society of apostolic life under episcopal law.

In 1978, Father Delfieux was the author of the rules of the order of communities, the Book of Life (Livre de vie) . "The desert is also in the city today ... Be a city dweller with the city dwellers today."

Fonts

  • Évangéliques, Éditions Saint-Paul, 1988–2013, 7 books
  • Livre de Vie de Jérusalem, Éditions du Cerf 1978/2003
  • Moine dans la ville, Bayard 2003
  • Au souffle de l'esprit, Parole et Silence 2012, together with Philippe Barbarin,
  • Pierre-Marie Delfieux: Une pensée par jour, Editions Médiaspaul 2014, ISBN 2-7122-1332-7

Web links

Commons : Pierre-Marie Delfieux  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. "Passage of Father Pierre-Marie Delfieux" , Communities of Jerusalem , accessed October 21, 2014
  2. In the heart of the cities. Book of life of the monastic communities of Jerusalem (“Veilleurs sur la ville”, 1995). Herder, Freiburg / B. 2000, ISBN 3-451-27269-5 .