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Migration with others

THE “BACK DOOR” of PEDRO ABAD opens TO WELCOME YOUNG MIGRANTS/SPAIN

We are writing to all of you to tell you about the imperative and improvised work camp that was begun in Pedro Abad, the afternoon-night

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June 23, 2020
Migration with others

“A bowl of rice, a bowl of love”/japan

From five loaves of bread and two fish, He feeds the five thousand. (Matthew 14:13-21) As a response to the cries of a single mother

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June 22, 2020
Migration resources

migrants WORLD DAY: “To be close in order to serve”

Today,  we invite you to watch the second, newly released video, prepared by Migrants and Refugee Section, in which the Holy Father explores the sub-theme “To be close in

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June 22, 2020
Migration news

Same reality, another look due to the pandemic/japan

Few women have passed through the Kalakasan migrant centre during the pandemic. They were afraid to leave. But one day Imelda Flores Ishiwata came to

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June 20, 2020
Migration news

THE SUFFERING FACES OF OUR VENEZUELAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS/colombia

By the side of the Northern Highway in Bogotá, dozens of our Venezuelan brothers and sisters hope to find some way to travel to the

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June 10, 2020
Migration news

ACCOMPANYING THE TRANSITION OF THOSE WHO LONG TO RETURN TO THEIR HOMELAND/CHILE

At the end of April and the beginning of May in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, around 300 Peruvians went to the Peruvian consulate

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June 10, 2020
Migration news

the “friendly voice” of ana rosa, ACI/peru

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

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May 21, 2020
Migration resources

invisibles, neglected and forgotten

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

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May 21, 2020
Migration with others

HELPING OURSELVES TO REMAIN IN HOPE

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

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May 20, 2020
Migration with others

a new step of welcoming/usa

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

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May 14, 2020
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The pace is picking up! ⚡ Two congregations at the The pace is picking up! ⚡
Two congregations at the same time: the province Andino-Caribeña and the Vietnam region 🇻🇳
Today, July 20 at 4pm (Vietnam time), our Vietnamese sisters began their regional congregation. First step: a retreat 🙏 To open hearts ❤️ To listen, deeply, to what the Spirit desires.
Tomorrow, July 21 at 2pm (Vietnam time), they’ll open their first session 📖
Let’s pray for them. And for our sisters of the Andean-Caribbean province. 🙏
May the Spirit breathe 🌬️, may hearts listen! 
✨AMDG
Our sisters from the Andean-Caribbean province (Cu Our sisters from the Andean-Caribbean province (Cuba, Panama, Ecuador, and Colombia) gathered yesterday, July 18, for a day of integration, before entering retreat to open their provincial congregation. 
The theme of their day: « Knowing and recognizing one another. » Welcome, sharing… and a Master Chef-style cooking moment 👩‍🍳, to rediscover just how precious each sister is, with her own gifts. 
Their provincial congregation opens this Monday, July 20. Let’s accompany our sisters in prayer, that — as with every provincial congregation — it may be the Spirit who guides us. ✨ 
AMDG

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Masterchef moment!
Since this Sunday 12th of July, our sisters from A Since this Sunday 12th of July, our sisters from Africa (Cameroon and DR Congo) have begun their regional congregation in Kinshasa, Congo. 🙏🇨🇩
We’re praying for them during this important time — a time to listen to the Spirit and discern the direction He wants us to take. May it all be for His greater glory, and may the fruits shine through every person we meet and every mission entrusted to us. ✨
AMDG!
Last video of our vocation series, with Montse and Last video of our vocation series, with Montse and Jessica!
They share with us who Saint Raphaela Mary, our foundress, is for them — and what she continues to inspire in them today.
💬 What advice, according to Jessica, would Saint Raphaela Mary have given to a sister? The answer is in the video!
Happy watching 🎧
🔁 Missed the previous episodes of the series? Find them all in our Story Highlights / on our profile.
In the Northern Hemisphere, it’s summertime — that In the Northern Hemisphere, it’s summertime — that special season when we finally have more time.
We take the chance to do what we didn’t have time for during the year: travel, spend time with friends, family… And it’s often then that we see most clearly how present God is, in every moment!
But it’s good to set aside space for Him alone too. To take time to be silent, to let Him speak to our heart. After an often intense rhythm throughout the year, this time of re-centering is precious.

Will you take the step? 🙏 Write “SUMMER” in the comments and we’ll send you two prayers you can read and pray with.
Read the Bible too!

Have a wonderful summer, and happy praying!
(And for those in the Southern Hemisphere: you can ask for the
prayers too!)
New beginnings on the journey! On the feast of Sa New beginnings on the journey!

On the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, four of our postulants entered the novitiate in the Philippines (Tandang Sora). Two are from Congo (Félicité and Exaucée), one from Timor (Mónica),and the fourth is our first vocation from Indonesia (Ulin). Each one was given a cross and a plant. The plant is a symbol representing her vocation. They must care for it, with the help of the community. Before their entrance, they lived through a few days of triduum that prepared them much more deeply within.
So begins this time of deep discernment and confirmation of their vocation.

We pray earnestly for this time of deepening, that the Lord may accompany them, and that we may accompany them too with our prayers.

On the feast of the Sacred Heart, Khatlyn and Kie April, two young Filipino women, began their postulancy in our house in Naga.
And in the feast of Saint Thomas, Princia and Sanjita from India began their postulancy in the community of  Snehanilayam, Cochin, Kerala.

Thank you, Lord, and God’s blessings on each one’s journey! We pray for you all.
Our sisters in vows and our junior sisters from Ja Our sisters in vows and our junior sisters from Japan, Timor, Vietnam, and the Philippines have gathered in Vietnam to begin, on July 3rd, their personalized spiritual exercises. They are about thirty sisters in all!
Let us pray for them and for this time of grace opening up before them, that they may allow themselves to be shaped ever more by Christ, to serve and love Him better.
AMDG
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Come, come with me to a quiet place. This is God’s Come, come with me to a quiet place.
This is God’s invitation to our six novices to step out of the world and be shaped by Him.
“In your presence, God of each day, love of all loves, oh Jesus, You who shape us, oh Spirit reveal to us that we are your weaving.”
The Lord is calling our six novices from the community of Montevideo, Uruguay, to begin their Month-long Retreat this Friday, July 3rd.
It will be a time for each of them —Macarena (Maqui) and Milena (Mile) from Argentina, Teresa (Tete), Eva and Mariana from Portugal, and Hellen from Chile— to let themselves be shaped deeply: through Christ, with Christ, in Christ.
They will do so at the Jesuits’ Manresa House in Montevideo, together with the novices of the Society of Jesus, until August 6th, to encounter the Lord.
We accompany them with our prayer, that He may accompany them in a special way during this month of retreat. 🙏
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