The all-important experience that every guest seeking help in the Emmaus community is supposed to do is say: I am loved and d radically adopted. I am accepted as I am - with my life story, with all my handicaps.

By sharing fellowship with people who have been marginalized for a long time, mentally wounded people can be given a piece of healing closeness. Lifeless and desperate draw hope again. The dead are brought to life.

The basic principle of the Emmausgemeinschaft St.Pölten is: WORK instead of ALMS! Decisive for the work in all subareas are: LOVE and EXPERTISE.