Arrival of three students
International Juniorate in Rome
One of the important highlights of the Council of Congregation held in Manila this year has underscored our being a missionary Congregation.
A week before the start of the Council of the Congregation, all the 30 participants of the Council joyfully joined the celebration of the 150 years foundation of the Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres in Saigon, Vietnam. A very significant event where each participant had the occasion to have a spiritual encounter with Mother Benjamin le Noël de Groussy, our great missionary in the Far East.
This rekindled the missionary ideals of the sisters called to enter into the mission of Jesus Christ, challenging us anew to renew our missionary horizons, to develop within ourselves and in our local communities, the sense of internationality and of universality of the Church and of the Congregation by being strong signs of the Church’s universality ourselves. (Capitular Acts 2007, p. 11)
The call to strengthen the missionary formation in the initial and continuous formation is first and foremost so that we may be able to answer the urgent need of our time today. This challenges in us a greater awareness on how to harness our capacity to “widen the space of our tent, extend the curtains of our homes and not to hold back! To lengthen our ropes, make our tent-pegs firm, for we will burst out to right and to left… as Isaiah said. (Isaiah 54:2-3).
Our world today has become a virtual reality of encounter of people quite far from us, actually more than a thousand miles away from us but are just a digital touch away. But the faces of pain and suffering are still one and the same, morphing into a million times of expressions and forms but they are still the different faces of Jesus clothed in our abject humanity today.
A response to this call is imminent. An International Juniorate Program is set-up this year in Rome whose primary aim is to accompany the young sisters in their formation towards a greater and deeper missionary awareness and praxis.
Three Junior Sisters arrived in Rome last September to continue their Juniorate formation here in the Generalate. They are Sr. Josefa Alves de Melo from Brazil, Sr. Zennie To Phuong Lan from USA and Sr. Theresa Punnachet from Thailand.
Aside from entering into this International Juniorate Program they will also take up courses in Catechesis, Spirituality and Theology respectively. They will be accompanied in their formation journey by Sr. Maria Lourdes Casas.
International Juniorate in Rome
One of the important highlights of the Council of Congregation held in Manila this year has underscored our being a missionary Congregation.
A week before the start of the Council of the Congregation, all the 30 participants of the Council joyfully joined the celebration of the 150 years foundation of the Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres in Saigon, Vietnam. A very significant event where each participant had the occasion to have a spiritual encounter with Mother Benjamin le Noël de Groussy, our great missionary in the Far East.
This rekindled the missionary ideals of the sisters called to enter into the mission of Jesus Christ, challenging us anew to renew our missionary horizons, to develop within ourselves and in our local communities, the sense of internationality and of universality of the Church and of the Congregation by being strong signs of the Church’s universality ourselves. (Capitular Acts 2007, p. 11)
The call to strengthen the missionary formation in the initial and continuous formation is first and foremost so that we may be able to answer the urgent need of our time today. This challenges in us a greater awareness on how to harness our capacity to “widen the space of our tent, extend the curtains of our homes and not to hold back! To lengthen our ropes, make our tent-pegs firm, for we will burst out to right and to left… as Isaiah said. (Isaiah 54:2-3).
Our world today has become a virtual reality of encounter of people quite far from us, actually more than a thousand miles away from us but are just a digital touch away. But the faces of pain and suffering are still one and the same, morphing into a million times of expressions and forms but they are still the different faces of Jesus clothed in our abject humanity today.
A response to this call is imminent. An International Juniorate Program is set-up this year in Rome whose primary aim is to accompany the young sisters in their formation towards a greater and deeper missionary awareness and praxis.
Three Junior Sisters arrived in Rome last September to continue their Juniorate formation here in the Generalate. They are Sr. Josefa Alves de Melo from Brazil, Sr. Zennie To Phuong Lan from USA and Sr. Theresa Punnachet from Thailand.
Aside from entering into this International Juniorate Program they will also take up courses in Catechesis, Spirituality and Theology respectively. They will be accompanied in their formation journey by Sr. Maria Lourdes Casas.
L-R: Sr. Zennie To Phuong Lan (USA), Sr. Theresa Punnachet (thailand), Sr. Josefa Alves de Melo (Brazil),
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