Especially in this year 2020a challenge for all countries,let us remember with Pope Francis “Yet it is also true that an individual and a people are only fruitful and productive if they are able to develop a creative openness to others.”(FT 41) Then Peace and Joy can be “born”between all of us. These are our…
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How does Mary welcome the invitation of the angel? At the heart of an unconditional availability, she moves from one attitude to another…. From fear to daring…From doubt to faith…From surprise to acceptance…From amazement to questioning…From fear to confidence …From interiority to exteriority…From silence to dialogue…From bewilderment to obedience… Mary listens, reflects, progresses in the…
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Sr.Annette Allain, Little Sister of the Assumption in USA, give to us this happy song as a gift : The Ballad of Happy People Our old Earth is a star and you, too, also shine a littleI come to sing you the ballad The ballad of happy peopleI come to sing you the ballad The…
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The third Sunday of Advent is called “Sunday of Joy” and reminds us that even in the midst of many doubts and difficulties, joy exists because God exists. This joy is a choice by opening our hearts, trusting in light of His love when we encounter Him. John the Baptist reminds us to prepare as…
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2nd Sunday in Advent “Beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Son of God. » This first word, “beginning” refers us to the first word of the Bible in the book of Genesis. If it is a beginning, it is because there is a continuation, the Good News of Jesus, the one who was anointed…
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It is April 3rd and it is as well the feast of Our Lady of Charity in Cartagena. In a municipal notice, we are invited to go out at 10 pm and sing the “Salve de Cartagena,” a great devotion in this city. The community asked us how this would be done. At 8 p.m.,…
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Founded in 1865 Paris, France by Fr. Stephen Pernet, a.a. and Antoinette Fage (Mother Mary of Jesus), the Little Sisters were founded to be present among the poor, the workers and their families. “Take society at its roots, the Family, and transform it in the spirit of Christ.” (Fr. Pernet) Bonds with the laity were…
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Happy Christmas 2019 ! Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins. A voice of one calling: “In the wilderness prepare…
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Notre Dame de l’Espérance is a centre which welcomes, heals and rehabilitates mentally ill persons who are homeless in Bobo Dioulasso. Sisters María de Lurdes Mendes Pereira and Anne Nguyen Thi Tuyên, LSA, share with us their experience One year after my arrival in Burkina, I was asked to work with mentally ill persons. At…
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The AOLA (Association of Our Lady of the Assumption)* gathered around this theme in an international meeting from august 6 to 16, 2019 at the Mother House of the Little Sisters of the Assumption. We experienced this session as a pilgrimage, a desert crossing, in the company of Adam, Elijah, Zacchaeus, the disciples of Emmaus…
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