News and Events

Dourdan (France), 10/29/2018, Dourdan Community.- To commemorate October 14, the birth day of our Mother Foundress, the association « Les amis du couvent de Marie Poussepin » (the friends of the convent of Marie Poussepin) in Sainville had the beautiful idea to organize on October 6, 2018, a pilgrimage on the footsteps of Marie Poussepin from Dourdan to Sainville.

Medellín (Colombia), 10/27/2018, Sr. Ana Cecilia Villegas.- The Team for the pastoral of Vocations in the Province of Medellin has wanted to create a sequence of ten vocational video-clips, on topics which would respond to the process of awakening and promoting vocations by presenting to the youth of today the charism of Marie Poussepin as a proposal l for the following of Jesus.

Bangalore (India), 10/26/2018, Media team.- Sr. Daisy Rose Peenikaparamban and the Media team of the Province of India is happy to share with us a Video they have prepared on Blessed Marie Poussepin. Their dream was to produce a film, which would have been very expensive, but are grateful for the collaboration and support received from all the Sisters to produce this Video. 

Melipilla (Chile), 10/26/2018, Erwin Olmos Palacios, missionary of the Ligua.- Between October 12th and 14th, the “Presentation Missionaries” community coming from different places from Chile and Argentina, met at Nuestra Señora de la Presentación School in Melipilla. Nuns, priests and lay people met under the slogan “Church with open eyes, not sleeping”.

Con Con (Chile), 10/24/2018, Sr. Jeny Obreque.- Almost 100 PRESENTATION YOUNG and some teachers met on August 31st, September 1st and 2nd at Santa María Goretti School in Concón, which is ruled by Dominican Sisters of Charity of the Presentation, representing the three schools the congregation has in Chile. The objective of this activity was to look for together the way how to be a change agent in its corresponding environments.

Pitalito (Colombia), 10/17/2018, Lay Participants.- From October 11 to 14, 2018, the 17th meeting of the Lay associates of the Dominican Sisters of the Presentation was held in Pitalito (Huila). Its objective was to share on the Encyclical “LAUDATO SI” of Pope Francis about taking care of our common house.

Port-au-Prince (Haiti), 10/20/2018, sr. Ana Patricia Londoño.-  The charitable roads of Abbot Jean Baptiste Fouque and of the daughters of Marie Poussepin had already crossed in Marseille (France) from the beginning of the 20th century, when the charitable priest asked Sisters to the Superior General of the Dominicans of the Presentation of Tours, to manage some of his works, including Saint Joseph’s Hospital.

Maracaibo (Venezuela), September 2018, Sr. Yadira Laya.- On September 21 to 23, 2018 at the Presentation School of Maracaibo, Venezuela, took place the workshop: "Training and Accompaniment in the Preparation of Solidarity Projects."

Tours (France), 10/15/2018, RCF.- On October 5, as part of her visit to France to participate in the beatification of Father Jean Baptiste Fouque, founder of Saint Joseph Hospital in Marseille, Sr. Ana Patricia Londoño, director of the Pediatric Center in Haiti, was interviewed by RCF Touraine.