For the past two years, the Little Sisters of the Assumption in Vietnam have organised at the end of each year, or at the beginning of the New Year, a fraternal gathering followed by a meal for all the families in difficulty who they had visited and accompanied. This year, the number of participants was…
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Good morning to all. I am a Little Sister of the Assumption. My religious family was founded in 1865. Our founder, Father Etienne Pernet, an Assumptionist, discovers the great misery of the working class families of his time, especially when the mother is ill… He looks for ways to help these families… prays for a…
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I was born on 16 August 1933 in Tossa de Mar (Girona), a small village on the Costa Brava. My parents, Tomás and Assumpta, had four children, I was the second. My maternal grandparents lived in the same village, on a nearby farm, and my father owned a modest cork factory. The Spanish Civil War…
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‘Liveline’ is an afternoon radio programme, Monday to Friday. It is a ‘phone in’ by people on all topics often highlighting many current issues. A person called Ger phoned in to talk about money stolen from the residents of a Health Authority Residential Unit. Ger’s mother was a patient there. Joe inquired about his mother…
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It is time to be creative! Do not say that hope makes dreamers of us! it makes a realist of the apostle,it has the same goal. It is a creative virtue, and expansive, it imposes the allure of victory and of optimism. Mother M. St Elizabeth (“Sing and walk”) The team for the work with…
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“He is risen… He goes before you into Galilee… “ Go, walk, pilgrims on the road with the risen Jesus. On this Easter Day 2021 we choose to go forward in hope with our suffering world. Following the example of Pope Francis who speaks to us of hope against all hope as experienced by Abraham…
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« “You have seduced me O Lord, and I have let myself be seduced; you have overcome me, you are the stronger” Jer. 20:7. I am of a Christian catholic family of 9 children, 6 girls and 3 boys, and I am the third child of the family.The story of my vocation is a long…
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After learning how to find ourselves through Zoom, all of us realize in the Assembly of the Congregation, that this extraordinary tool allows us to move forward together. We have to accept the frustration of not being able to react spontaneously, and communicating only by word of mouth, it is impossible to connect with each…
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Our family united in all times We are living a very particular moment in the world. A pandemic reminds us of the fragility of human beings, the uncertainty of tomorrow, the loneliness of social isolation and of not being able to see the people we love. These are not easy times, but right now we…
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Five years after signing his Encyclical on the Safeguarding of Creation, last May, Pope Francis launched a special Laudato si’ year, hoping that this text could serve as a guide for building the “world after” the Covid-19 pandemic. (after La Croix) At the beginning of August, Geneviève Hubert proposed that every Friday at 5:30 p.m.…
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