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Ouagadougou - Dassasgho (Burkina Faso), 06/20/2017, Sr. Béatrice Kantoro.- End of Year of the Children of the Center of Pre-school Education Marie Poussepin: Since Friday evening, the day before the end of the year, employees and APE members were responsible for cleaning, decorating and chairs. On June 17th at dawn, the Lord sent us heavy rains. Cooler and happy, we were ready to face a long journey.
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Bucaramanga (Colombia), 07/03/2017, Sr. Eleein Paola Navarro.- La Turena, “la casa de todas” (the house of all), welcomed the Lay Dominicans of the Presentation of our Province of Bucaramanga, who came together for their General Assembly from June 29 to July 2, accompanied by the Sisters who assist them. They reflected on the theme: Committed to care for our Common House, enlightened by the Encyclical “Laudato Si” of Pope Francis.
Bogota (Colombia), 07/09/2017, Sisters province of Bogota.- “Canonical visit is a special time of our life journey, a time of listening, dialogue, knowledge, communion and a search together, a task that is not easy at all, but we are sure that the Lord is with us. It is a time in which your history and project, of each community and the Province unites with that of the Congregation in the entire world to share life and hope. The Congregation exists where each sister and each community lives her Spiritual experience.”
Bucaramanga (Colombia), 06/16/2017, Sr. Luz Karime Mancipe Laguado.- This year the Faculty of Health Care in the “Universidad Industrial de Santander, UIS”, based in Bucaramanga, completed 50 years offering formation in science, ethics and humanism. A beautiful and moving historical survey of this Faculty of Health Care was the prelude for the posthumous recognition of a renowned daughter of Marie Poussepin, which took place on June 14, in Louis A. Calvo auditorium of this great educational center.
Lima (Peru), 07/01/2017, Sr. Ofelia Quispe Huallpara, Provincial Superior of Los Andes.- Saint Rose of Lima continues walking paths of faith. As we are celebrating 400 years of Saint Rose of Lima’s death, her relics travel across different places of Peru as an example of a DOMINICAN LAY WOMAN.
Lima (Peru), 29/06/2017, Srs. of the Province of Los Andes.- On June 28th night Fr. Juan José Salaverry OP, Prior of the Province of Saint John the Baptist in Peru, brought the relics of Saint Rose of Lima to our Provincial house in Lima.
Mocoa (Colombia), 06/28/2017, Sr. Pastora Marín.- You never know what a person can do or how he will react to a sudden tragedy ... The people of Mocoa, Putumayo, in Colombia have suffered one of the greatest natural catastrophes of this century.
Bogotá (Colombia), 06/25/2017,News Editor.- We thank the Lord for the First Profession of Liliana María Huertas Robayo, in our Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of Charity of the Presentation of Our Lady. The Eucharist celebrated in the Chapel of Casa Central was presided by Monsignor. Raúl Alfonso Carrillo Martínez, Bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Puerto Gaitán and concelebrated by Fr. Alberto Múnera Dueñas sj and many Dominican Fathers.
Beirut (Lebanon), 05/30/2017, Sr. Henriette-Myriam.- For the first time In the month of May, the Church of Maronite Rite, where we actually are now (since we were before in the Latin Rite): Father Georges, priest of the Mar Takla Parish and a group of parishioners invited us to live the Marian pilgrimage. Sister Bernadette of Lourdes and myself (after twenty years of presence in Lebanon), have lived these beautiful daily celebrations from family to family with the statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In the morning, the statue arrived in the family where we would go in the evening (the statue would stay there until the next day).