Sr Pauline Campbell recounts her experience of the 2013 meeting of Spiritual Directors from throughout Europe.

With three companions I attended the Annual Conference of Spiritual Directors Europe, which was held last year in Malta (17th - 22nd April 2013).

In mid September 2013 1 was asked by a friend religious if I was interested in participating in a 26 week programme on The New Evangelisation.  I showed the programme to Sr. Christina Gorman.  She was most enthusiastic and so we both decided to 'launch into the deep'!  

Visiting another culture, another tradition is a good experience for both the visitor and the one visited.  That at least has been my experience and it was further highlighted for me recently. Sr. Margaret Mary Chileshe and I had the good fortune to visit our two students in Kenya (Sr. Helen Namutami and Sr. Nancy M’kandawire) for five days and these were days in which we were richly blessed by the people we encountered there. 

I’m sure that a number of our readers will visit older people in nursing homes at some stage whether pastorally or socially. In many instances you will find your way to a Day Room where a number of the residents will be seated in a circle around the room, not speaking or being interacted with, either dozing or looking into space.

Saturday 31 May 2014 was truly a day of festival and joy for the Sisters of Charity of Australia writes Sr Jeannie Johnston.  The sisters gathered together with their families, friends, co-workers and supporters in St Stephen’s Cathedral, Brisbane, to celebrate and to give thanks to God for 175 years serving in Australia, impelled by the love of Christ. Over 1300 people shared in the joy and thanksgiving.

The Conference of Religious of Ireland (CORI) Spring Conference entitled ‘Religious Life Evolving - Faithful and Free’ was held on 25 April, 2014 in the Grand Hotel, Malahide, Co Dublin.  It was a vibrant, joyous encounter, marked by excellent input from the two speakers in the morning and a great dialogue with the participants in the afternoon. A summary of the event can be read by clicking HERE.

On the 1st February 2014 the Religious Sisters of Charity, staff and pupils in Kabwe, bade farewell to the head teacher Mrs Beatrice Musole who officially retired on the 31st December 2013 having spent twenty seven years there, (together with her husband who was also on the staff for many years), as a member of staff, deputy head teacher and head teacher of the school.

Here Sr. Michelle Hetherington tells us about the recent house/community move from San Fernando to Paseo Del Mar, San Pedro in California:
Early on the morning of February 19th 2014, Sr. Una McMahon and I waited for the moving company truck to pull up outside our home in San Fernando.  The day had arrived when the two of us were moving to our new home in San Pedro. 

Water With Blessings equips and empowers mothers to become Water Women: compassionate agents of change in their communities, who filter clean water for their families and neighbours.  Our sisters in Konzalendo recently took up the challenge to bring this project to the people in their local area.  Here they tell us what happened:

Sr Florence Kavanagh reports on a lecture she recently attended in London and reflects on how this led to her attending an Ecumenical service at St. Martin’s in the Fields Church, to mark the 34th anniversary of the martyrdom of Archbishop Oscar Romero, 24th March 1980 in San Salvador.  READ MORE...