Our community of Chota, motivated by the call of Pope Francis in his encyclical Laudato Si’, where he tells us, “More than in ideas or concepts as such, I am interested in how such a spirituality can motivate us to a more passionate concern for the protection of our...
Today I planted 20 saplings! All of them tropical fruit trees! And at the end of the day I heard that the Pope has proclaimed Laudato Si’ year, coinciding with Laudato Si’ Week, 5 years after the encyclical. What great news! A confirmation of the new mission possibilities opening up...
We continue in lockdown because of Covid-19, and we are becoming involved in telephone accompaniment to some immigrant families. It has not been difficult to notice how important it is to have a "friendly voice" in the midst of so many threatening voices that give rise to insecurity. Sr....
They are invisible; they are neglected and forgotten. That is how Pope Francis refers to the internally displaced in his recently published Message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, which accompanies in its subject matter the recent Guide published by the Dicastry for Human Development’s Section of Migrants...
Continuing the work of collaboration with JRS, which we have been doing for more than a year, visiting and accompanying refugees in two of the main centers on the outskirts of Dublin, our specific presence has also had to adapt itself to this time of insecurity and lockdown. In...
Here is our modest response to your question about participation in Laudato Si Week activities: To be in solidarity with Laudato Si Week, we are saying prayers sent from the Vatican and from Global Catholic Climate Movement originating in our country. In order to increase our solidarity with...
At the end of GC XX, Handmaids in the USA searched diligently for a way to intensify our accompaniment of Peoples on the Move. We were committed to networking with other religious communities and with other organizations, both Catholic and non-Catholic. Since November 2017, along with the Sisters of St...
In Vietnam, as in other places around the world, we have been keeping “social distance” and wearing masks to avoid getting infected with coronavirus. We, the sisters in the experimental community in Tay Ninh, near the Cambodian border, have returned to Ho Chi Minh City because we were...
A short article to tell you about how some immigrant families are entering our daily lives. Tierra Amarilla is a community established in the center of Atacama, which contains a succession of small villages that go up the mountain along the Copiapó River bed – a vast area that...
"The heart of a Handmaid must not be limited to any fixed number; it must reach out the ends of the earth.” In these times of lockdown, we are invited to "stay at home" but our Handmaid's heart is longing to expand even more than usual...
