Sunday, August 6, 2017

GENERAL CHAPTER 2017


Dear Sisters,

We greet you from Rome and hope that you are all doing well. It has been a year since we met in Ouagadougou. Guided by our Sisters of the General Council, you chose us to make our contribution as sisters of temporary vows to the General Chapter, which took place from July 1 to 22, 2017. Thank you very much for having this trust in us. This has been a positive and rewarding experience. We felt integrated into the assembly. We learned a lot and admired our elder sisters who put all their hearts and love into this noble task.

By this word, we simply want to tell you: what our eyes have seen, what our ears have heard, and what our hands have touched; You will receive it in your turn in your respective communities. We leave you the thirst to discover it and to live it.



While waiting to receive the Capitular Acts, let us tell you from the theme of the chapter that hope is a seed, a door that opens towards the future. We have witnessed not only our desire to engage in the peripheries, but also to open doors to fully live our purpose statement.

This chapter has challenged us to leave our comfort zones and to be leaven in the dough. Carrying hope, let us have the courage to keep alive the dream and the hope of Cardinal Lavigérie, M. Marie Salomé and our predecessors.

The Congregation counts on each one of us, regardless of our stage and age to be bearers of hope, to listen to the voice of the Spirit, to move together towards the peripheries of our time.


Sisters Marie Ange Ndayishimiye and Franceline Hien

1 comment:

  1. Congratulations and thanks for having been there for us. I appreciate the work. May the Holy Spirit guide us

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