Nigeria. Pentecost rally for young people
From 17 to 18 May 2024, the Catholic Diocese of Osogbo, Nigeria, organised a Pentecost Rally and Youth Day for all the young people of the diocese, on the theme: The Holy Spirit, strength of youth. The programme included a procession, recitation of the rosary, a...
In Briouze: Residence Notre-Dame
The 4 days I spent in Briouze, at the rue des Joncherets Community -see previous article: "Festive celebration in Briouze"- enabled me to witness the daily life and share in prayer with the 3 sisters currently at the Notre-Dame residence: Irène, Angèle and Bernadette;...
Cameroon: 70 years of the presence of the DHS
April 1954-April 2024: 70 years of the presence of the Daughters of the Holy Spirit in Cameroon. "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me... he has sent me to bring good news to the poor..." (Luke 4:18).On Sunday 14 April 2024, to mark these years of life given and received...
Sowers of hope and peace
It's a tradition for the Church: for over half a century, the fourth Sunday after Easter has been dedicated to praying for vocations (married, consecrated and clerics).In his message for the sixty-first World Day of Prayer for Vocations, Pope Francis invited us all to...
Nigeria: 60 years of DHS presence
The history of the Congregation of the Daughters of the Holy Spirit in Nigeria dates back to 1964, when four Sisters of the Holy Spirit from England, Sister Yvonne, Sister Albertine, Sister Thérèse PATTY and Sister Veronica HARAHAN, accompanied by Mother BRENDAN from...
In Cameroon, meetings of young sisters
We, the young sisters of the Daughters of the Holy Spirit, are very grateful to the Congregation for all the moments of formation that it gives us the opportunity to experience among ourselves and with other consecrated persons from the ecclesiastical province of...
Let us quench the hunger and thirst of our people
Holy Week is one of the most important religious celebrations in Peru. In Huaura, after the celebrations, the faithful demonstrate their faith through processions, penances and representations of the passion, death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. The...
An afternoon of “Sport and Faith”
Everyone knows that in 2024, the Olympic and Paralympic Games will be held in France, and for the most part in Seine-Saint-Denis, a department bordering Paris. On Saturday 9 March 2024, the secondary school chaplaincies and the CCFD (Catholic Committee against Hunger...
“Lenten recollection!
On Saturday 24 February 2024, 7 young people from the vocations group of the parish of Notre Dame de la Présentation de Marza, in Ngaoundéré - a town in the northern part of CAMEROON - met to look together at how to live the Lenten season of 2024. In fact, for several...
Citizen and spiritual march
It was 5 years ago, on 4 February 2019, that Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmad Al-Tayeb in Abu Dhabi signed a joint declaration on fraternity, emphasising peace, freedom of belief, dialogue and coexistence.On 4 February 2024, the inter-religious...