Grain prices are rising due to the war in Ukraine, and the effects of higher prices are also being felt in Kenya and Tanzania. In addition, there have been massive rainfalls in recent months and devastating floods as well as the destruction of arable land. Our sisters in Tanzania, especially Sr. Consolata Mey OSB, visit…
“Minibus for Peramiho”: The sisters urgently need a minibus for the St. Scholastica girls’ school and for the use of the sisters in training in their pastoral work, so that they can get to the outstations of the parish and to the projects. For our novices, the experience of pastoral and social work among the…
Education project to train our own sisters” for our schools and hospitals, etc. Our African and Indian sisters usually join our communities after finishing secondary school, but need a sound education to become teachers, nurses, doctors, medical specialists for laboratories, pharmacy and administration. In Uganda, Angola and Tanzania, our priories urgently need support. Annual tuition…
In Tanzania, there is only a free seven-year elementary school. Our sisters run state-recognized secondary schools for girls in Peramiho and Ndanda. But not all parents can afford the school fees. However, we do not want to reject talented schoolgirls and so we provide scholarships for girls from poor families to give them the opportunity…
Pope Francis releases his prayer intention for the month of July, and invites Christians to pray that the Church might show God’s closeness to people enduring illness. “Let us pray that the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick grant the Lord’s strength to those who receive it and to their loved ones, and that…
On June 22, Sr. Simon Lee was re-elected as Prioress of Windhoek for a second term of three years. The election chapter was presided over by Sr. Lumen Gloria Dungca. Congratulations to Sr. Simon and the Windhoek Priory!
On June 3, the Preparatory Commission for the XIV General Chapter started its work in the Casa Santo Spirito in Rome. They were introduced to their task by M. Maoro Sye and Sr. Vania Maria Toscano,who will be for them the contact person to the Generalate. They are from left to right:Sr. Adelaida Ygrubay from Manila…
On June 16, Manila Priory in the person of Sr. Mary Thomas Prado, Prioress, turned over the stewardship of St. Peter’s College in Ormoc to the archdiocese in the person of Archbishop John Du. 94 years the sisters had served in providing Catholic quality education and formation based on Benedictine values. M. Mary Thomas thanked the Archbishop,…
From 14 to 16 June, the Bulgarian National Youth Congress was held in the monastery of our sisters in Zarevbrod. The theme of the meeting was “The Way of Hope”. On Friday, the first groups of young people from different parishes of the three Catholic dioceses in Bulgaria began to arrive at the monastery. The…
On the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, June 7, the new convent of the Sacred Heart Community in Majengo / Runzewe was opened and blessed. Our community belonging to Ndanda Priory stayed in Kabuhima / Runzewe since 2009 in the house of the parish.As the place became increasingly too small and busy, the sisters could with the…
