Aconcagua: Celebration of God's fidelity to us

Putaendo (Chile), 03/29/2022, Media– Vice-provincia of Aconcagua.- On Sunday 27 March 2022, as Vice-province of Aconcagua, in the parish of San Antonio de Padua in Putaendo (Chile), we celebrated the Perpetual Vows of Sr. Berta Marinela Tapia Cena, who with the motto "My Grace is enough for you! Strength is realized in weakness..." renews her commitment of fidelity to the Lord, according to the charism of Marie Poussepin.

Marie Poussepin Maternal School, Port Prince: “What you give to the children is what they will give to society”

Port Prince (Haïti), 03/18/2022, The Sisters of the community.- The Dominican Sisters of the Presentation and the educative community of the Marie Poussepin Maternal School in Haiti, live with the Haitian people the harsh reality that affects them: Political crisis, violence, insecurity, kidnapping, corruption, misery, high cost of living, covid 19, natural phenomena, gangs groups in the neighborhood … among others.

Living in Paris, at 310 rue de Vaugirard

Paris (France), 03/12/2022, Sr Monique Colrat.-  At the end of October 2021, the sisters arrived to 310 rue de Vaugirard in its new buildings. Sisters from various Congregations with their Charisms: three Auxiliary Sisters, two canons from the Congregation of St. Augustine of Notre Dame, two Dominican Sisters of Roman Congregation CRSD, two Xaverian Sisters and the others from Dominican Sisters of the Presentation. 20 sisters have taken their residence in the new building and live in the places that some of us will remember.... But now, everything is quite different from what it was before or it is almost different.

Living Synodality in the Practice of Charity

São José da Mata (Brazil), 03/11/2022, Sr. Maria Cleide Pires de Andrade.-  Our community, formed by three sisters is located in the District of São José da Mata in the department of Paraíba, in the Northeast region of Brazil. This region of the country is very rich in natural beauties and its culture is quite diverse, however, it has great social problems caused by the concentration of income in a few people, unemployment, and the scarcity of rains, a natural phenomenon that causes constant droughts.

Honors for the essay competition "325 years of the Congregation" at UCM

Manizales (Colombia), 03/10/2022, Alejandro Marín Pineda.- To celebrate 325 years of existence, is only possible in a work that has been thought of for a long time and that, animated by the signs of the times, has been able to redefine itself in different times and contexts, in order to make charity in the various fields of action of the CONGREGATION OF THE DOMINICAN SISTERS OF CHARITY OF THE PRESENTATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN; as expressed by the participants in the essay competition, which evoke the commemoration of the community.
 

Canonical visit to the Viceprovince of Africa

Burkina Faso (África), 03/09/2022, Sr. Chantal Ouédraogo.-  This year, our Vice-Province had the grace of receiving the General Government for the canonical visitation as recommended in our documents. It was a great moment of sharing, of fraternity, of giving and receiving, from December 27, 2021 to February 12, 2022.

Religious Profession in Bogota

Bogotá D. C. (Colombia), 03/01/2022, Sr. Nubia Yaneth Chávez.- The Province of Bogota rejoices with the Religious Profession of the novice Doris Adriana Rojas Socha, who absolutely said Yes to the Lord in our Congregation, last February 13, 2022.

Let us pray for Ukraine

Rome (Italy), 28/02/2022, Sisters of the General Government.- We are living in a very delicate time, the conflict between Ukraine and Russia affects all of us; we witness the failure in the search for peace and dialogue. There is fear, massive displacement of people, separation of families and the neglect of the most needy.

Peace of justice team, a response to the social and political events in Chile

Putaendo (Chile), 02/28/2022, Sr. Licarayén Torres Muñoz.- During the year 2019, a historic event took place in Chile which, although many did not see it that way, came to change the path our country was following after the return to democracy. The media reported what was happening, especially in the big cities, but also in all corners of our country. Social discontent had "exploded" after years of injustice, lies and corruption, Chile rose up to shout loudly that life could not go on in the same way.