2nd day of the session – Panels
Projets de l’Assomption avec Migrants – Refugiés – Déplacés – Victimes de Traite Assumption Projects with Migrants – Refugees – Displaced – Victims of Trafficking Proyectos de la Asunción con Migrantes – Refugiados – Desplazados – Víctimas de Trata. Panel 1 : « bateau Je sers » (Père Renaud Komabou – AA / France) Panel […]
Premier jour de la session – Un monde en mouvement : un défi pour l’Assomption aujourd’hui
Première réunion sur le zoom de la Session Internationale JPIC qui s’est tenue le lundi 5 juillet à 12h30 heure de Paris. La Session »Un monde en mouvement : un défi pour l’Assomption aujourd’hui » a commencé par une prière d’ouverture comprenant un chant à l’Esprit Saint, demandant la présence de l’Esprit. La lecture a été […]
Some Threads from Laudato Si Week
There were many different coloured threads woven together throughout the Week. Here are some to give you are glimpse of the tapestry it formed from the various Zoom meetings online, with participants from all round the globe; translations were miraculously available in several languages. Ditebogo, from the Youth Programme South Africa, described how the great […]
Session de Migration – Migration Session – Sesión de migración (5-10 Juillet – July – Julio)
Nous avons commencé aujourd’hui, la session sur la migration, qui a rassemblé 65 participants des 5 familles de l’Assomption. Après une belle prière et un mot d’accueil de l’équipe du Secrétariat international JPIC des familles de l’Assomption, les Supérieurs généraux de chacune de nos Congrégations, nous ont adressé quelques mots sur l’importance de travailler sur […]
In a country once forested
The young woodland remembers the old, a dreamer dreaming Of an old holy book, an old set of instructions And the soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest And under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass. (Wendell Berry) And we, what are we dreaming of? Dare we dream of a […]
The women of the Resurrection
Picture: Kitchen Maid with the Supper at Emaus by Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) National Gallery of Ireland. LET ME SEE WITH THE EYES OF FAITH, LET ACT WITH A PASSION FOR JUSTICE. Be thou my vision: www.theirishblessing.com Introduction Mary Magdalen, who had eyes for Jesus alone, saw him and mistook him for the gardener. Two disciples […]
We are being deceived about plastics.
Plastic production is closely linked with the fossil fuel industry, and the production of petrochemicals. Plastic is a derivative of fossil fuel. Together fossil fuels, plastics and chemicals have been called a three headed monster. The production of new plastic is feeding the climate crisis. There is a campaign of misinformation going on. Most of […]
Choose life!
Widen the space of your tent, stretch out your hangings freely, your ropes, make your pegs firm’ Isaiah 54.2 One of the first readings in Lent reminds us to `choose life that you may live long in the land that the Lord your God gives you.’ ( Deuteronomy 30. v15 -20) It could not be […]
February 25: Celebration in memory of Sr. Renée Guido POPPA, Oblate of the Assumption
with Françoise NYIRAGENDO, a Rwandan aspirant I. The story of the OA Mission in Rwanda and the Remembrance of the 1992 event The Oblates of the Assumption – Religious Missionaries were established in Rwanda in 1981, responding to the call of the Church through the voice of Bishop RUZINDANA, Bishop of Byumba who needed nuns […]
Together on this earth
February is Black History Month, a movement which started small in 1915 in the USA. Gradually links with Africa were re-forged , by the 1940s there was expanding study of black History in schools and in the 1960s the great struggle for civil rights led by Martin Luther King. Today a wider movement has been […]