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This is the website for Faith and Light communities east of the Mississippi River

Meet us: Meet our members and get information about our meetings. Please click these buttons to locate our Regional and local communities:

What is Faith and Light?

Faith and Light is a community movement. At the heart of these communities are

people with a more or less serious intellectual disability: children, adolescents or

adults. They are surrounded by their family and friends, especially young people.

Faith and Light gives to persons with an intellectual disability the possibility of

recognizing and using their gifts and discovering the joy of friendship.

To the parents, Faith and Light gives support in their trials and helps them to better

appreciate the inner beauty of their children. A number of them, in turn, become a

source of strength and an assistance to other parents who are crushed by their

suffering and their daily difficulties.

The brothers and sisters of the people with an intellectual disability are called to

appreciate that a person with a disability can be a source of life and unity; if this

person disrupts their life, he/she can also transform and transfigure it.

Thanks to the person with and intellectual disability, the friends also come to

understand that there is another world, a world other than that of competition,

money and material pleasures; those who are weak and poor invite them into a

world of tenderness and fidelity, of listening and of faith.

The communities are not residential, but rather communities whose members meet

at regular intervals and create between themselves links which become deeper and

deeper through the sharing of their difficulties and their hope: sharing times of

festivity, prayer and the Eucharist and/or other religious celebrations. These

communities are usually made up of about thirty people.

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Make a donation: We are registered with the Internal Revenue Service as a 501c3 non-profit corporation under the name of "Friends of Faith and Light USA East". Donations to this corporation will go to support the spiritual and social activities of Faith and Light USA East. If you would like to make a tax deductible contribution, please contact the Provincial Coordinators of Faith and Light, Dolores Wilson at 202-526-3222 or Fred Seagren at 952-835-6721.

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