Capítulo General 2024

The structure of Our Lady of the Americas ” has its origin on December 3 rd , 2023 with the decree of erection read by Sister Maria Escayola Coris, Superior General, during the Chapter Assembly that took place from December 1 st to 7 th in the Provincial House in Mexico City. The New Structure is the fruit of a long process of walking together and in collaboration with the previous Province of Guadalupe and Vice Vice-Province of the United States. This process began as a response to the invitation that the Congregation made at the 55 th General Chapter in La Turena, Bucaramanga, Colombia to seek new ways of organizing ourselves to give greater dynamism to our life and mission.

58 years of missionary presence indicates a long road traveled, a history written daily, living and celebrating the process of faith undertaken, walking together: people, Church, and community, enlightened by the Word, strengthened by the Spirit, in the spirituality of Dominic de Guzman and organized charity of Marie Poussepin. In January 1965, the first three sisters from the Province of Medellín arrived in Charagua, Bolivia, and in June of the same year, another three arrived in Juliaca, Peru. The dynamism of the mission led to the establishment of two regions several years later: one in Pe-ru and another in Bolivia. On October 14, 1983, after 18 years of missionary presence, with 87 sisters, three of whom from Bolivia and five from Peru, the Vice-Province of Los Andes was born; it was constituted as a Province on January 22, 1995 to live and proclaim Jesus Christ.

In the newness of the Spirit that accompanies the process of restructuration in the Congregation and in the context of the celebration of the birth of Jesus, who is life, the Province of Our Lady of the Presentation is born as fruit of the search for God's will for the structures of Bucaramanga, El Caribe, and Manizales. On December 17, 2023, the new province with its headquarters in La Turena, Floridablanca, Santander, was established. A successful past, as a fulfillment of the promise of God in the history of salvation, brought us to the present to live in the key of hope; where together we will discover the will of God and consider the call to welcome our 359 sisters happily.