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Carmelites Mixed 7 days

Vacations for single mothers with their children

These vacations are offered for single, separated, divorced, or widowed mothers, accompanied by their children.

Vacations for single mothers with their children

A week of family time at the Alençon sanctuary

Would you like to relax and recharge at the family sanctuary, with your children, for a few days? To take time for calm, joy, reflection, and spiritual growth away from the whirlwind of an exhausting daily routine, and rediscover how to "let yourself be loved by the Lord"?

You will be welcomed and cared for by a team from the sanctuary.

Programme

  • Visit to the sanctuary,
  • excursions through the city and surrounding countryside in the footsteps of the Martin family,
  • prayer vigils,
  • Masses,
  • teachings,
  • activities for children supervised by sisters, animators, and seminarians,
  • walks
  • sightseeing excursions... will help you rediscover breath and enthusiasm.

Practical information

Participants will be accommodated at the Hôtellerie des pèlerins of the sanctuary.

The suggested offering for the weekend includes accommodation, meals from Friday evening through Sunday lunch, as well as pastoral activities.

Getting there

Train

The SNCF train station is less than a ten-minute walk from the sanctuary!

Car

Allow less than three hours from Paris, and about one hour from Caen, Le Mans, and Laval.

Bike

Winding through the Norman Switzerland region, you can reach Alençon by bike!