While winter weather and the on-going pandemic have put restrictions on implementing the commitments of the Province Assembly, a combination of enthusiasm, creativity and technology has proved effective in finding a way forward.
When a large donation arrived from the Irish NGO, HAVEN, it was decided to invest it in a Water Project for one of the communities who suffer dreadfully from drought and have to travel long distances for water.
During the preparations for the feast of our holy patron, a phrase that was dear to Claudine set a rhythm in our heart and gave us strength during this whole time of uncertainties and difficulties: “God will Provide”.
Three years ago, the school community changed the school feast day to Feb. 3rd, St. Claudine's Feast Day.
Acting on the anti-racism commitment of the recent Province Assembly, the 8 members of the MD/DC region gathered on January 27 for a day-long workshop led by Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur Patricia Chappell and Ann-Louise Nadeau.
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.
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 3rd, 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.
Birth: March 16, 1930
Profession: April 22, 1961
Death: September 27, 2020
Birth: October 19, 1928
Profession: September 6, 1950
Death: September 14, 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.
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.”
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.