Come & See Inspirations

This week we are sharing a visit by John to the Cenacelo Community in Knock, Co. Mayo. Cenacelo Community is an organisation which provides a free, fully residential programme to help people suffering from addiction to change their lives. John chats with Fr Adrian Crowley and three community members, Adrian, Aidan & Edmund, who share their testimony. We ask our listeners to keep them in your prayersThe Community was founded by an Italian nun, Mother Elvira Petrozzi, in 1983. For many years she had been concerned by the destruction she had seen among people of all ages through drug abuse and she longed to help them. Mother Elvira, together with two companions, Sr. Aurelia and a teacher, Nives Grato, were given an abandoned old house in Saluzzo in Italy, and so Community Cenacolo was born.Today there are houses worldwide with over 2,000 men and women in the programme. The house for men in Ireland was opened in Knock, Co. Mayo in 1999. As yet, there is not a house for women in Ireland but women who wish to e