On 16 October, a second meeting was held for prospective CLMs in Africa. Five people were in person in Dubbo – Kidane, Birkinesh, Teresa, and Tilahun and his wife Maria; this was the first meeting that Maria (photo) was able to attend. Linder, from Cameroon, was also able to join the meeting via Zoom.We started…
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On October 31st the United Nations climate change summit, COP26, was held in Glasgow, Scotland.The two-week (10/31 – 11/12) has long been billed as a critical checkpoint in the global effort to limit theplanet’s warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times – a key threshold to avoid the mostdevastating impacts of climate change.Scientists have…
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Recently, I was asked to visit our sisters in the mission of Uganda; to be a support for the community as Sr. Albertina and Sr. Gloria were both in Brazil at the time. Sr. Addise remained in Dzaipi with Sr. Joseane and Sr. Martha who were both relatively new to the country & mission.This was…
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On October 21 the second formation meeting dedicated to St. Joseph was held at the Curia in Rome.Sister Maria Regina Canale MSC General Assistant, accompanied us on an ever deeper and more surprising discovery of the patron saint of the Universal Church. In the history of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, St….
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On October 15 and 16, Sister Maria Regina, Assistant General, participated in two important days for our Institute in Borghetto Lodigiano.On the first day there was a Eucharistic celebration in the parish of Borghetto, the church of San Bartolomeo, in the presence of the mayor Dr. Giovanna Gargioni, the civil authorities and the director of…
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A friend has recently completed her PhD on the expression of charism in a lay-led Jesuit social services organisation. She used the image of a tree, where the health of the roots directly affects the health of the branches and leaves, to illustrate how the understanding and expression of charism impacts the experience of the organisation,…
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We MISSIONARIES are the presence of God among the people; we are, therefore, the creators of the “ever greater WE” of which Pope Francis speaks in his Message for the 107th World Migrants and Refugees Day 2021. Christ died and rose again so that all may be ONE (cf. Jn 17:21). In the present time when we are in the…
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For this installment, we’re reintroducing a few key concepts about how the Institute’s investments are managed. Our primary responsibility is to manage investment risk and return to meet the Institute’s current and future financial needs. These include retirement and ministry support, formation, and Generalate operations, among others. We seek to broadly align the Institute’s core…
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Mother Cabrini’s Legacy Between the Past and the Future At the beginning of the year, one of the goals we set was to tell the story of hidden realities seldom talked about in the media. Communication is often a hidden ministry, made up of exchanges of emails, phone calls, videos, etc., and we have had to adapt…
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Jenny Nicholson – Acting Group Director Mission and Identity, Cabrini Australia All our patients, their families, staff and doctors, volunteers, asylum seekers and refugees that we love and care for, need our visible attentiveness and nurturing of heart and soul at this time of the global pandemic. It is vital that we continue to be inspired…
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Dear Sisters and Partners-in-Mission, I greet you all in the grace and mercy of the precious Sacred Heart. It has been a full last quarter, with many meetings and much activity despite the August holiday period in the northern hemisphere. I hope you all had some time out to spend with your family and friends….
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