To strengthen contemplative vision and values in the Church. To provide a structure for responding to current issues of concern To provide a channel of communication with the various Hierarchies and other official bodies. Aelred Casey OSC Mother Mary Elizabeth VHM Kaire Kaire aims to be a living interconfessional cell of persons engaged in monastic, diaconal or active call in their Church and in the world. Its ecumenical charism, moved by the Spirit, is to a conversion to prayer, to one another, and to Unity. In order to continue the thinking and experience of that first meeting, Kaire was created and since then has held meetings every year or two, attended by sometimes twenty, sometimes as many as seventy people, in locations all over Europe.
Care is given to the balance of confessions, countries and forms of ministry.
The next meeting in Autumn 2000 will probably take place in Hungary. In 1977, through the initiative of Father Pedro Arrupe SJ and Brother Michael SSF, an ecumenical consultation of male Religious superiors was held to encourage contact and the exchange of ideas. After the second consultation in 1979, the gathering developed into a yearly meeting, including both men and women, from among the Anglican, Lutheran, Orthodox, Reformed and Roman Catholic traditions. The consultation is informal and takes place in different locations. The current Anglican representatives from the UK are Mother Rosemary SLG from Fairacres in Oxford and Father Crispin Harrison CR from Mirfield.