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REFLECTION: First Sunday of Lent: Gen 9:8-15, 1 Peter 3:18-22 and Mark 1:12-15

Bangalore (India), 02/21/2021, Sr. Anula Irvin Suguna.- Each year Lent invites us to take stock of our lives, to look at what we do: our choices, our behaviours, our actions and reactions. It is a challenge to look into ourselves and recognize the truth of who we are. Church offers us this time of grace to re-enter our inner self and bring order in our lives, through fasting, prayer and almsgiving.

Kuttikad (India), 02/07/2021, Sr. Daisy Rose Peenikaparamban.– Jeevadhara Girls’ Home is a registered institution under Juvenile Justice Act of the Government of India. Jeevadhara Girls’ Home welcomes girls and young women who are less privileged and dropped out of school due to various reasons: very poor family background with scarcity of food, clothing, shelter and medical care.

Roma (Italy), 01/24/2021, of letter of Sr. Maria Escayola Coris, Superior general.- We have just celebrated our thanksgiving to the Lord for the 25th anniversary of the Beatification of Marie Poussepin. This gave us the opportunity to fix our eyes on her, to go deeper into her response of fidelity to the Lord throughout her life, her intuitions and virtues, the charism she received for the Church.

"Men and women of the Church in the heart of the world, and men and women of the world at the heart of the Church"

La Paz (Bolivia), 01/19/2021, Community of Alto Obrajes.- Forty days for life will defeat abortion with prayer and fasting. "Forty Days for Life" is an international campaign in which more than 60 countries are participating. La Paz, the capital city of Bolivia, has formally participated in it for four years and since this year, six more cities joined this campaign.

Bogotá (Colombia), 01/05/2020, Community of Usminia.- During this time of pandemic, the doors of our local community in Usminia have been wide open to provide help to the most vulnerable people and families in the south of Bogota, Capital District of Colombia. We have distributed hundreds of food packages, led virtual meetings with groups from the parish, and promoted different actions regarding the prevention of drug abuse and domestic violence. However, we never imagined that boys and girls from our neighborhood would arrive at our doors, by their own initiative, asking eagerly to start as soon as possible, our apostolic activity in person, and to deepen in our spirituality.

Rome (Italy), LETTER OF SR. MARIA ESCAYOLA, 12/31/2020.- During this Christmas season, which we have lived in a special way in most of our communities and countries, the liturgy speaks to us insistently of light: "The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in the land and in the shadow of death, and a light has shone upon them" (Is 9:1). God has spoken to us through his Son. He is the reflection of his glory" (Heb. 1:2-3). The Word was the true light that enlightens every person" On 1:9), he is a "light to enlighten the nations" (Lk 2:32).

Paris (France), 12/22/2020, Sr. Anne-Claire Tessier.- Our new website went online at the beginning of December. You can find a presentation of each community of the Province, as well as the link to the sites of our host houses. Every Sunday is published the commentary of the Gospel written by one of the sisters of the Province.