Hope is first of all a gift, but this gift must be welcomed, cared for, embraced and put into action. This is our great task, something that requires great daring and that calls us to besigns, witnesses and prophets of hope: ACTORS AND ACTRESSES of HOPE. It is about being
From the 5th to the 19th of June, I participated in a meeting of the working group of RENATE – Religious European Networking Against Trafficking and Exploitation – in Eresing, Bavaria, south of Germany. There were 30 persons participating from 20 European countries, the majority from Eastern Europe. Once again,
In the time and space in which they lived, Saint Raphaela Mary, Mother Pillar and the first Handmaids found the way, through education, to respond to the needs of reality. Today, like them, we desire to respond to the hopes of humanity and to God’s dream convinced that “education is
It is a reverent encounter of freedoms, with an affective and empathic tonewhere contrasts are called to be lived in the plurality of differences.It is a space where one enters from one’s own vulnerability to engage in atransforming and healing process that recuperates, recreates, and repairsthose who are involved.It is
Synodality: a path of transformation in the small things Let’s talk about synodality… that was the proposal of our last workshop. But, rather than talking about a “trend topic”, we realised that synodality is the very way the Church is! It is the way Jesus wanted His disciples (not only
“An indispensable quality in an educator is love for her students. If this love truly exists, that love will make you seek at every moment what is best for each girl.” (Mother Christina, 1951) Around the corners of our classrooms, we share about God’s love, we talk about God who
Santa Rafaela Social Services Center began in Kinshasa in the 90’s as a literacy center for youth and for the mothers in the neighborhood who were unable to attend school. The literacy program has always been combined with some activity which would help them to develop skills which would act
GCXXI called us to dive deeply into how we live together and create together a NEW CULTURE, being as we are people who hail from many different nations, cultures, generations and realities. How can we discover the living richness at the authentic core of each culture we represent and, with
Two years ago in the private school of La Dolorosa in Quito, Ecuador, we proposed a reassessment of the model of evaluation and the methodology of the learning process. The challenge arose in the midst of the Covid 19 pandemic, which obliged us to think carefully about which are the
We are more and more aware that we need to give proper attention to the economy in order to integrate it with maturity in our life andmission. It should express our consecration – vow of poverty, our mission – reparative and Eucharistic, and our fraternity – humanizing.We continue to seek
