Bridges

The events of January 6 are no doubt still vividly in our hearts and minds as we look toward the coming transition in government with a mixture of apprehension and hope. 

Here is the mobile clinic team that has started this December in the Jean Rabel area.

Celebrating Advent!

Also in this edition: RJM Jubilarians for 2021.

Sr. Janice Farnham’s highly anticipated history of the Religious of Jesus and Mary in the USA takes its title from the story of RJM origins in Lyon, where Claudine Thévenet rescued girls from the chaos of revolutionary France and taught them the skill that offered a means of a secure livelihood.

TO HARVEST THE RAIN - Gros Morne, Haiti

“The sun took my corn, took my beans, my sweet potatoes, my plantains, my harvest!” laments farmer after farmer - meaning the rain didn’t come at the right time.  How can farmers outwit the rain’s unpredictability with climate change accelerating it?  How do they harvest the rain???

As you know, our project, Pas a Pas, came into being on February 3, 2020.  We had wanted to start in September 2019, but events in Port-au-Prince -- the violence and continuous demonstrations in the streets which also caused the closure of schools and educational institutions -- didn't allow us to do so.

A long-planned Youth Day finally took place on  Sunday, November 1st. It was impossible to hold the meeting until now, because of the situation in Port-au-Prince with demonstrations and violence and later COVID-19.

On November 3^rd, the Province Leadership Team called together three representatives of the Province Post Assembly Committees.

When I moved to St. John’s convent in the Bronx in 2012, I was thrilled to find a course in watercolor offered by the New York City senior center. 

The lives of some of our “companions in mission” intersect with ours only briefly.  This is true of Betsy Kennedy, whose name no one would recognize as a former ‘companion,’ but whose contribution is familiar to many of us.