Sr Carmel wrote a letter and recorded a video on the occasion of this very special feast day for the Mary Ward family. You can hear her speaking here: To get an (automated, not perfect, but helpful) translation, you can activate the translation and subtitles buttons of YouTube.
From June 23 to July 7, Helena (Generalate) visited the communities of the Loreto Sisters in Timor-Leste, the Philippines, and Vietnam at the invitation of Carmel, the current General Superior of the IBVM. Timor-Leste Carmel & Helena met with candidates, novices, and junior sisters in training to observe their international training program and discuss possible
Sister Veronica Fuhrmann CJ, our General Superior, has written a letter to all members of the Congregatio Jesu on the occasion of the Feast of St Ignatius 2025. As you all know this year the day is very significant for the IBVM. Therefore the letter is being sent out earlier than usual so that we
Regina Muyambi Makwiramitifrom CJ from Zimbabwe received a warm welcome in Cuba on the 8 of July. Unfortunately, she did not have the opportunity to learn Spanish prior to her arrival in Cuba. But she arrived safely as a missionary with joy and openness. She will begin her Spanish lessons next week. We wish God’s
What is hope? Something I wish for the future: Something for myself, my family, for our church, for our congregation, for friends, for the country in which I live, for my fellow human beings who ensure or have ensured that I have something to eat every day, a bed in which I sleep well, a
“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”This quotation by tchech civil rights activist Václav Havel sums up quite well what hope means to me. With such an demeanour, I want to act and cooperate for and with other
Many things separate us humans from one another. But there is one place where we can connect with God and with each other: in prayer. With the new edition of our House of Prayer, we invite you to pray with us, for us and for one another. Find the latest edition for July and August
“That they may become completely one” As Mary Ward experienced the just soul “that first estate, as the fountain, and best disposition for a soul to be in” as waters flow from a fountain, we see justice, goodness, love, mercy, etc, flowing into all creation and all of us. We ponder the gift of living
