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Bridges, January 8, 2021

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.

Bridges, December 4, 2020

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???

Bridges, November 20, 2020

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.

Bridges, November 13, 2020

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.

Bridges, November 6, 2020

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

Bridges, October 30, 2020

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.

Bridges, October 23, 2020

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.

Sr. Lourdes Saracho, RJM

Birth: March 16, 1930
Profession: April 22, 1961
Death: September 27, 2020

Sr. Irene Beauregard, RJM

Birth: October 19, 1928
Profession: September 6, 1950
Death: September 14, 2020

Bridges, October 16, 2020

EDUCATION IN A TIME OF PANDEMIC: Fon Ibo, Haiti. Because of COVID-19, the 2019-20 school year resumed in Haiti August 17th and ended October 8th. The 2020-21 academic year will begin November 9th.

Bridges, October 9, 2020

From September 1 through October 4, RJM communities observed the ‘Season of Creation’ by focusing on one element in the call of our JM Preferences: “...to work with passion for...the integrity of creation.”

Bridges, September 30, 2020

On September 12th, 4 RJM novices took their final vows in Lahore, Pakistan: Srs. Uzma Siddique (left) Yvonne Waris, Suneeta Saleem, and Nusrat Sadiq, RJM.

Bridges, September 18, 2020

Gathering on Saturday, September 19^th, the RJM of the MD/DC region prayed and celebrated with Brittany Galvin as she officially began her time of Postulancy.

Haiti Mission Newsletter - Summer 2020

This issue of the Haiti Mission Newsletter features 17 Haiti Mission projects that illustrate the United Nation's 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

Bridges, September 11, 2020

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN A TIME OF PANDEMIC: This is the first in a series about education during the pandemic. The following is an excerpt from an article by Sr. Teresita Morse, RJM and you’ll want to read the full article which is attached to the Bridges email.

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