October is Peasant and Indigenous Peoples’ Month in the country. Our local farmers, many of whom are indigenous peoples, form the backbone of our agricultural economy and society. They are the ones providing food on our table, but they are also the most impoverished sector in our country due to contnuing threats of land conversion,…
Our community, which had not been able to gather for a while due to COVID-19, gathered on Community Day for the first time in three years and held the ‘Proclamation Ceremony the 100th Anniversary of our Congregation in Korea’. The Preparation Committee set the theme of the 100th anniversary as ‘Invitation to This Land, with…
Offering of the resolution cards at the beginning of the Season of Creation On 04 September, the day of Creation, we offered cards with our resolutions at the altar, as we entered the chapel in procession for the night prayer. The altar was decorated with the image of the burning bush, logo of this year’s…
Changwon Fatima Hospital donated approximately $9,000 to Tanzania through the ‘Fatima Love Fund’, a voluntary fundraising organization of its employees. The donation will be used for the purchase of medical equipment for the intensive care unit of St. Anna’s Health Center in Uwemba, Tanzania, the replacement of pump well motors at Uwemba Secondary School, and…
Climate Action for The Neighboring Local Community On 23 September, the 1st campaign for the Climate Action was launched under the initiation of the sisters of St. Benedict Group. They staged a picket, holding their picket signs which were made during their recreation time, at Donam crossroads for an hour after lunch. On 21 October…
The Socio-Pastoral Apostolate, or SPA, is one of the implementing arms of the missionary endeavors of the Manila Priory. The sisters are assigned to the social apostolate in the outreach centers of our schools and hospitals. Those sisters took to heart the fiat they prayed in response to the exhortation from Micah 6:8: “And what does…
On September 10 it was two years that our beloved Sr. Leoni Joseph Manimala passed on to eternity. The sisters in Punalur community remembered their former superior with Holy Mass in the convent chapel and a blessing at the cemetery. May she rest in peace and intercede for our sisters in India!
The On-going Formation Team of the Manila Priory organized an online Basic Flower Arrangement Workshop last August 19-20, 2022 from 2:30 – 5:30 in the afternoon. because of COVID infection, this time among men, women employees and three Sisters in the Priory House, but fortunately it pushed through on the scheduled dates. The facilitator, Ms…
On August 15, two novices made their first profession in Daegu Priory House. We congratulate Sr. Bertha Oh and Sr. Chanmi Kim Sr. Bertha Oh, OSB and Sr. Chanmi Kim, OSB On August 14, Nov. Lilian Park (Sun Young) started her noviciate. Nov. Lilian Park (Su Young)
“Do not be afraid, for I have redeemed you, I have called you by your name, you are mine.” Is 43,1 Our dear Sr. Maria Bonifatio (Dong Ae) Keum, OSB was called home to God on August 13, 2022 in Daegu. She was born on August 24, 1952 in Daegu, Diocese of Daegu. She offered herself…
