The ground breaking encyclical “Fratelli Tutti” of Pope Francis invites us to transcend every barrier and border, and rise above the dividing factors like races, colour, faith, cast and class.
“The voice of the elderly is precious, because it sings the praises of God and preserves the roots of the people.” – Pope Francis Responding to the invitation of the Holy Father Pope Francis who instituted the maiden World day of grandparents and the elderly on 25th July 2021, we the Sisters of Vijayawada Province celebrated this day with joy and gratitude uniting ourselves with the grandpar...
The two days of celebration of my missionary mandate which was held in my home parish Kurada on July 11th 2021 in the diocese of Alotau was something amazing. It was programmed and well planned out by my family along with our parish priest Fr. Basil Dekeuya involving the whole parish of Kurada with the four sub stations. It was held both in traditional as well as in spiritual way to balance the c...
8 of March, 2020 marks a significant milestone in the history of our mission in PNG. It was a great joy for me to witness this remarkable event which was the erection of our tiny delegation into a new province as it took 32 years to grow this far. I remember well, in 2018 during our 12 General Chapter the erection of our new province was approved. I was in my mission in Cameroon when the announcem...
Pope Francis in a conversation with Andrea Tornelli said, “The name of God is mercy.” Further in the same conversation the Pontiff mentioned, “Yes! I believe that this is a time of mercy. Our era is a kairós of mercy, an opportune time.” With these sentiments of Gods mercy our two novices: Cynthia Teola and Angela Mondo, the fruits of the soil of PNG, on the Solemnity of the Divine Mercy ...
Building systematically the Church of the future with the Intensive English Course, starting from some key words: TOGETHER, CHARISM, INTERNATIONALITY, FUTURE. The Intensive English Course, a learning experience. The Intensive English Course that the Bangladesh Conference of Religious (BCR) organizes every year at the BCR Center (Savar, Dhaka), is a 40-days-program, participated by the candidates...
Holy Father Pope Francis, in his apostolic journey to Georgia and Azerbaijan, addressing to Irina a Georgian wife and mother said, “Marriage is the most beautiful thing that God has created.” A married couple reflects God’s love and His image because they become one flesh. The book of Genesis presents, “God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female...
The very opening sentence in Redemptoris Missio says, “The mission of Christ the Redeemer, which is entrusted to the Church, is still very far from its completion.” This becomes the burning flame, in every ardent missionary, to reach out to the Church in need and to carry Her activities. Here the words of St. Paul, become active and alive to a missionary, “Woe to me, if I do not preach the G...
It is the appeal of the day, shouted openly or revealed by worried eyes, of many who, due to the measures of social isolation and the closure of activities, have seen their little and occasional income exhausted. It is the cry of many, too many !, who arrive at the emergency room of the diocesan hospital not only for various illnesses, accidents, heart attacks, strokes, appendicitis etc., but with...
If you wish to collaborate with us, you can sustain a project or sponsor a child through distant sponsorship. But in case you wish to help them from nearbyour mission you can join the Onlus “The Friends of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate” or you can join the MSI Lay Associates.
