Advent Calendar 2023
Christmas is just around the corner! To help you prepare to welcome Jesus the Savior and experience the joy of Christmas as a family, CANA offers you an Advent calendar. Every day, a new proposal for the whole family!
Christmas is just around the corner! To help you prepare to welcome Jesus the Savior and experience the joy of Christmas as a family, CANA offers you an Advent calendar. Every day, a new proposal for the whole family!
In the heart of the Swiss mountains, to the south of Lucerne, the monastery of Bethanien is the ideal base for a four-day hike as a couple, following a programme that combines personal and spiritual journeys. Silvère and Anny LANG have extended a warm invitation to us, encouraging us to dare the adventure!
There's a time for everything! In tune with today's young couples, CANA is renewing itself with CANA REFRESH. In a Catholic parish near Lyon, the first two stages have been completed. After a time of listening and discernment, it's now time to act!
How is Christmas celebrated in China? As a Christian festival, a commercial festival? A Chinese friend has been observing recent developments in a society where Christians are very much in the minority. Despite the difficulties (“shadows”; see below), they even offer each other apples during a vigil that can last five hours! The Good News is still relevant today.
Firmly rooted in Spanish culture, Christmas is an intense time that can last for a month. Between the preparations at the beginning of December and the feast of the Three Wise Men at the beginning of January, it’s time to go home to be with your family and welcome Jesus into your life. The preparations… […]
« The model couple », is the nickname that has been given to George & Elizabeth OGWANG in the diocese of TORORO. They joined CANA in 2017 and are now the lead couple of this district. In this interview, they talk about the graces that they were given in their couple, in these last few years.
It is during Gilles CORMIER and Sister Marie BOURBONNAIS’s recent travels to Uganda for the leaders’ training that we were able to collect this beautiful interview of Robert & Gloria. They are the leaders of CANA in Gulu, one of the 11th region in which CANA is present in Uganda. In this interview, they discuss what being leaders in the CANA ministry has brought to their couples, and the graces they received.
In October, teams from Uganda (including the 11 dioceses), Kenya, Zimbabwe and Tanzania met to work, share and listen to each other. They were able to take part in a training session led by Gilles CORMIER and Sister Marie BOURBONNAIS.
In September, Gilles & Véronique CORMIER visit Latvia and its CANA team for the first time. They were able to welcome the new leaders and to guide them within this new responsibility in CANA. In this article, they share the good moments they lived together, as well as the difficulties that the couples go through in this country.
In Burundi, from 31 July to 6 August, there were two special CANA Weeks for couples from the GITEGA and MUYINGA vicariates. In all, 95 couples responded to God's invitation, along with more than 60 servants, and the Lord was generous and faithful.