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Installation of the new Director General of the Daughters of Charity at the Mother House
The Eucharist, celebrated after Lauds, was presided by Father Tomaž Mavrič, concelebrated by Father Bernard Schoepfer, Father José Antonio González Prieto and Father Fréderic Pellefigue, Visitor of the French Province. In his homily, Father Bernard took up the angel’s greeting to Mary “Do not fear!” It is accompanied by the certainty that Mary – and […]
Economy at the Service of the Charism and Mission
We will only be able to recognize the places where the most vulnerable are silenced and life is extinguished if we are able to live with our eyes open. And it is there that we will be able to discover God, present in the Daughters of Charity who are always attentive to their neighbor and […]
TURIN: The Harmony of Fraternity
“The Concerts of 24”: spiritual and human elevation We are making a dream come true! A dream now close to the year of activity and already open to the future. This dream has a name: “The concerts of 24,” a musical festival that has been held every month in Turin since 24 March 2022, in […]
Meeting of Young Sisters (Province of Mozambique)
The General Meeting of the Daughters of Charity (Young Sisters) was held in Maputo at their Provincial House in Matola on 9-18 January 2023. This was attended by 12 young Sisters and began at 08:15 pm in the conference hall, with the presence of the Sister responsible for young Sisters. Several facilitators animated various themes: […]
Mending Blessing
O my friend, take heart. The work of repair is aching in its slowness and beautiful in the inches by which it will arrive. Do not pray to be patient but to persist. Ask for the endurance that helps us learn to breathe in the midst of fear, to love in the presence of sorrow, […]
Blessing of the International Vincentian Marian Youth Offices
The new offices of the International Vincentian Marian Youth (VMY) and National Councils were blessed on 18 December 2022 by Father Gregorio Bañaga, CM, the new Vicar-General of the Congregation of the Mission. Both offices are situated in the Marian Center which stands significantly beside the parish of St. Vincent de Paul, one of the […]
Sister Françoise Petit and Father Tomaž Mavrič meet Pope Francis
Saturday 21st of January 2023, I had the joy, together with Father Tomaž Mavrič, of being received by Pope Francis. It was an intense, simple and very fraternal meeting. We spoke about the situation in the Congo, the Sisters’ commitment to refugees and the presence of the Daughters of Charity in the countries of the […]
Session of newly designated Visitatrixes
It is 22 January 2023, Paris is welcoming us with intense cold, but at 140 Rue du Bac there is warmth and light. Twenty Visitatrixes from all over the world, designated from 2020 onwards, have been gathered by the Superioress General for a formation meeting. They are from the Provinces of Cameroon, Congo, Madagascar, Nigeria, […]
The President of the Republic and his wife honor Sr. André
Death of Sister André, the world’s oldest person Published on 18 January 2023 The oldest person in the world, Cévennes’ Sister André, has died at the age of 118. During a life marked by 18 presidents of the Republic and two world wars, she had become, for the French, a symbol of continuity and resistance, […]
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