by Jean Schneeberger | Jun 17, 2022 | Spiritual Family
There has been so much in the past few years to weaken us, the global pandemic, outbreaks of racism and genocide, wars and violence, the mass migration of peoples, political polarization and environmental destruction… However, we also have been gifted and surprised...
by Jean Schneeberger | Jun 17, 2022 | Spiritual Family
On 24 October 2021 we went to Diébougou, Burkina Faso, to be postulants of the Congregation of the Daughters of the Holy Spirit, Edith and Nina from Burkina Faso, Marie from Cameroon and our “big sisters” from Nigeria, the second year postulants: Callista,...
by Jean Schneeberger | Jun 17, 2022 | Justice and solidarity
“We must hear the cry of the poor and make it our own….” This is one of the Orientations of our recent General Chapter. So when the Mayor of Le Conquet – a town in Finistère, Brittany, France – came to ask us to welcome a Ukrainian family...
by Jean Schneeberger | Jun 17, 2022 | Justice and solidarity
How do you make a young girl who is in the process of growing up and seeking to develop outside her family environment happy? How can we make her hope for a better future when she has not had the chance, in this world today, to finish primary school? The Centre de...
by Jean Schneeberger | Jun 15, 2022 | Chapter 2021
On Sunday morning, 15 August 2021, the Chapter delegates met one last time to confirm the minutes of the deliberations. Just before we met in our Units to plan how we would communicate the chosen Orientations. Sister Ann Almodovar, our new Superior General, expressed...