The Groupe des Deux Rives (GDR) met at the Centre Manrèse (Clamart, near Paris) between 30 December 2022 and 1 January 2023, hosted by Sylvain Cariou-Charton, member of the GDR. After 22 years, the sharing of what one lives personally, in community, in the mission at the service of the Society and the Church, becomes profound. The challenges, the trials, the crises, the actions accomplished... leave a perfume of wisdom in the exchanges. The passage of time also leaves its mark in the need to moderate work, to take care of body and mind. These annual meetings deepen a true friendship in the Lord, where discernment (personal and wider) takes place.

The participants come from Algeria (Constantine and Algiers), Morocco (Nador), Spain (Granada and Seville), France (Marseille and Clamart), the Holy See (in community in the International Roman Houses) and Turkey (Ankara). The issues of the societies, the Society of Jesus, the local Churches, and the universal Church (clearly in the case of the Holy See) take up a lot of space. All of us are aware of the temptation to close ourselves off in our societies, while our call to dialogue (especially with Muslims) urges us to look after clear identities, which are open to the encounter with the other. In different ways, we accompany people overwhelmed by suffering and injustice, and since we are relatively dispersed, this group remains important to keep the word flowing.