Guided tour of La Clarte-Dieu and the park

Name: Guided tour of La Clarte-Dieu and the park
Start: 2022-09-18T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Couvent franciscain de la Clarté-Dieu

The team of employees, volunteers and the communities present on site offer you a guided tour of the Spiritual Center of Clarity-God.

Sunday 18 September 2022, 15:00Passed

Conditions

Free entry

Clarté-Dieu

The tour will start indoors and continue in the park. A concert will close in the afternoon in the Grande Chapelle.
Here is the programme for Sunday 18 September:
15h-16h30: Guided tour of the reception house,
16h30-17h00: Guided tour of the park and the aqueducts,
Concert in the Grande Chapelle by the cellist-composer, Dominique de Williencourt,
18h: Glass of friendship.

About the location

Couvent franciscain de la Clarté-Dieu

95 rue de Paris, 91400 Orsay

Essonne
Île-de-France

The Friars Minor, or Franciscans, settled in 1950 in a large property purchased from the Courtépée-Lesourd family to establish their seminary of formation at the presbyterate for the young religious, and open a spiritual reception centre for the laity inspired by Franciscan spirituality. Several buildings were built, including a large complex comprising a church, classrooms and meeting rooms, a large library, and premises to support a community of some sixty religious. They called this place "La Clarté-Dieu", from the name of a famous Cistercian abbey of Touraine. In 1969, the theological seminary was closed, and the premises of the seminary were dedicated to the reception of groups of Christians wishing to retreat, to organize formation sessions, or to meet. The house is open today to all the apostolic activities of the Christian Churches. Throughout the year, the house welcomes several thousand people, about a third of whom are young people preparing for the profession of faith or co