Bridges, June 16, 2018
At the recent General Conference in Rome (May 24-30), RJM from all parts of the Congregation met to discuss the Global Apostolic Plan.
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Bridges, June 8, 2018
At the Atelyer Thevenet, we do not work all the time. We also have some fun times!
Bridges, June 1, 2018
Tee Shirts For Soccer Finals – Roger Jean, (aka Tiden), our friend and long-time main driver, unloaded the parish twinning program sea container yesterday and this morning the truck was unloaded here in Gros Morne and in Garcin. Our yearlong QUEST volunteer, Sofia Pascual, who started the after school sports program, brought the tee shirts to the boys' final games today.
Bridges, May 25, 2018
Last week we had the feast to celebrate the end of this year in the women’s sewing workshop, Atelier Thevenet!
Bridges, May 18, 2018
Claudine’s religious vocation was born in the midst of war, violence and persecution. My religious vocation emerged in a country where violence, in the name of religion, is an acceptable and commendable fact.
Mobile goat clinics in Haiti help families raise healthy, profitable animals
Veterinary technician Songé Sengela stands 5-foot-nothing, but she is a force of knowledge. She is certified by the Ministry of Agriculture to treat chickens, cats, dogs, donkeys, horses, goats, and cows.
Bridges, May 11, 2018
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) is deeply troubled by the decision of the Trump administration to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 57,000 Hondurans.
FLORENCE LEBREUX, RJM
Birth: June 10, 1918;
Profession: August 24, 1938;
Death: May 4, 2018
Bridges, May 4, 2018
BREAKING NEWS! Catholic Climate Covenant launched a new nationwide campaign (Catholics Are Still In) to garner the U.S. Catholic community’s support for climate action... The U.S. Province of the Religious of Jesus and Mary signed the U.S. CATHOLIC CLIMATE DECLARATION!!!
Time, distance get warped in the free fall of Haiti's mountain roads
Haiti is only the size of Maryland, but traveling in this island nation warps my sense of time and distance.
Haitian President Jovenel Moïse has begun roadwork from Gonaïves, the capital of our department, where the national highway changes from asphalt to dirt, but no one is celebrating yet. Even as the roadwork crew smooths the road with huge tractors and lays the first layers of asphalt, people hold their praise until they see if this project will be finished in a manner that will greatly impact their ability to travel and, hence, improve their quality of life.
Bridges, April 27, 2018
“CROSSING FRONTIERS – CONNECTING HUMANITY” WORKSHOP
I spent a very inspiring week, April 8 - 14, in San Antonio and McAllen, Texas participating in a worship, Cruzando Fronteras - Crossing Frontiers - Connecting Humanity.
Reforestation work in Haiti looks forward to 20-year anniversary
The Jean Marie Vincent Center, better known to locals as the Grepen Center because of its neighborhood zone, is run in collaboration between the Montfortian priests and the agronomy team of Caritas of the parish of Gros Morne.
At first glance, Grepen Center is a well-kept green place. But it is so much more than that. Tucked behind the guesthouses is a large tract of land bursting with agricultural projects and experimental gardens. The agronomy team is never idle.
A family has formed at Maison Bon Samaritain
What is your name? Who are you? When meeting a new acquaintance, this is an important distinction.
Bridges, April 19, 2018
Pictured, Lekòl Jezi-Mari students in Gros Morne, receive visitors who bring letters from their pen pals at St. Jude School, in Chattanooga, TN.
“Jesus presented Himself and remained”
Many are the ways of proceeding of Jesus in our lives, my case is not different, since I am the second daughter of five children.in a non-practicing Catholic family, but which during my childhood my parents and above all, my grandparents were concerned that I believe in God.
God changed my plans; He offered me some which were better: to be a Religious of Jesus and Mary
Twenty years ago, I felt very happy because I felt that I had chosen correctly, I was right in the election I had made of my career and of my boy-friend. I was in the middle of obtaining my degree in Science of Communication and I had a stable relationship with my partner with whom I wanted to spend the rest of my life. At that time we had been going together for a year and a half. What more did a young university girl need? Both elections had been made… it was just a question of time in order to form a family and to exercise my career.
“Live my surrender not only some moments, but during my whole life”
I am Lizbeth; I would like to share with you how my vocation process took place. The Holy Week Mission when I was 20 years old, was one of my founding experiences, in which my thoughts, my emotions and sentiments sharpened, became more acute and concern and interest emerged in me for something more in my daily life.
“With Him and for Him you never lose time”
I am, Middia and I am 27 years old; I was born in Haiti and I am the oldest child in a family of four children. My parents are very religious and through them I discovered God and they led me to be closer to Him by the witness of their life. The first time that I heard speak about vocation I was in the fifth grade of primary school, when the Director, a priest, asked the class: What do you want to be when you are older?... and I answered: a Nun- But for me, at that time this was just one more answer among thousand others.
God made Himself present and invited me to follow Him
I was an 18 year old girl, had just entered the Normal School of Specialization; I had a stable relationship with a boy was engaged and in love. For me, there was no other future than to form a home, a family. I could not even imagine anything different. Nevertheless, God burst into my life, with great respect, asking me my consent which I gave to Him and I am grateful for this up to the present time. I consider that all this was a path, a process, a whole series of events and moments in which God manifested Himself, inviting me to follow Him.
Health care in Haiti is about filling in many gaps, walking many miles
St. Claudine Thévenet, foundress of the Religious of Jesus and Mary, encouraged the sisters in her community to live this excerpt from the Pious Association of the Sacred Heart's Rule of Life: "When we go alone on a long and difficult journey, we soon grow weary ... on the contrary, when several go together, they walk with assurance, courage, and fresh support."
Bearing this in mind, St. Claudine sent the sisters out on mission, and the Religious of Jesus and Mary remain a mission community 200 years after their founding.