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Human stories by Mikolaj Cempla
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Mary Ward Week 2020
Once again we have arrived at this special week of our Mary Ward family year – the week spanning the dates of her birth and death, when we focus our prayer and reflection on our shared inheritance from her.
This year’s Mary Ward Week resource booklet has been collated and edited by two Indian members, Prabina IBVM and Manjusha CJ in India. Once again, the contributors come from many different parts of our Mary Ward family, with the majority of contributions coming from lay Friends of Mary Ward. Our sincere thanks go to both contributors and editors for their insights into our shared charism and, of course, to our ever faithful translators and to the secretariats for their hard work on the formatting of the booklet in the nine different languages into which it has been translated.
We hope that you will find the booklet a very fruitful resource for your own prayer and reflection during this week and we invite you to share it as widely as you wish with your own colleagues, pupils and other friends of Mary Ward so that we continue to make ever wider the “open circle” of Mary Ward’s followers.
We would also like to take this opportunity to thank each of you for your participation in the recent union consultation process and for all the responses we have received. The two leadership teams will now give time to working through the responses and in due course we will communicate with you both the outcome of the consultation and any planned next steps.
Venerable Mary Ward, pray for us and give us your spirit
Yours ever
Noelle Jane
Towards Global Citizenship – November Edition
The IBVM NGO Office has just released the November edition of “Towards Global Citizenship”. Download it here.
Towards Global Citizenship No 6
Hacia la Ciudadanía Global No 6
Pat Murray Appointed to Pontifical Council for Culture
Pat Murray, IBVM has been appointed by the Holy Father as a Consultor to the Pontifical Council for Culture.
We wish her every blessing.
Loaves and fishes
Here is an article by Br. Bill Firman from Solidarity South Sudan, who also is Chairperson of our school in Rumbek
Loaves and Fishes
May HOP 2016
picture from:
International World Day of Prayer
Mabuhay! Come to the circle and tell your story!
GC Update Thursday 25th September
In today’s faith-sharing from the Gospel of Luke we hear that Herod is perplexed about this Jesus…he kept trying to see him. Perhaps Herod was threatened by Jesus’power?
The short passage called some to ask, “what makes me wonder about Jesus?” In trying to see Jesus or find Jesus, “what are we looking for?”
Now that the elections of the new leadership is over, we can turn back to formulating our goals for the next eight years. We worked in our “Base groups”on these “calls”or “directions” for the better part of the day. It was a wrestling act trying to find that “right”way forward in stating clearly what we have heard from the body.
Other conversations around issues such as “Human Trafficking”and other justice issues were discussed before the end of the day’s work. One sister said, “somehow we feel more grounded in what we are asking the new leadership to do because we know who they are and now we must focus on what we’re calling them to do.”There was a lot of conversation, re-wording, negotiating and ultimately sending the fruits of our labour off to the writing group.
Keep the prayers coming.
Guess who’s birthday it was today? (Answer lies in the land of Aus)
