Guided by the Holy Spirit, the Bombay Synod was held on the 3rd and 4th of June at Bombay Seminary. I was privileged to take part in this synod representing the Handmaids. It was truly a “grace-filled” event, as each one of us articulated our...
There is a symphony being played throughout all of history. Do you hear it? Listen carefully. You will hear it coming from a beating heart…WATCH VIDEO ...
The Community of Sevilla has been collaborating with Bio-Alverde, since 2020. Bio-Alverde is a non-profit social employment agency promoted by Caritas of the Diocese of Sevilla.More than 50% of their workforce is comprised of people socially excluded from the labor force(long-term unemployed, immigrants, problems with...
During the month of April my 4th year social studies students in Ituzaingó and I embarked on an ABP (project-based learning) on immigrants who arrived in our country at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginnings of the twentieth century. Our guiding question...
On Easter Sunday we had the most beautiful Easter dinner ever in the garden of Palmela. The communities in the south of Portugal (Fonte da Prata, Lisboa and Palmela) joined with the Ukrainian families who have been living here for some weeks. There was a family...
On March 25 Lisbeth Carmona and her 11 year old son Eduardo came to our Handmaid community in Montevideo, Uruguay. Lisbeth was pregnant ,and they had travelled from Lima, Peru, arriving in Uruguay via Paysandú, a city in the west of Uruguay. And on Sunday...
We would like to tell you about how we came to welcome nineteen Ukrainians into our community. When the war broke out over a month ago, our community immediately looked for a way to respond to a request for help from our neighbors, the Friars Minor;...
The community of Benirredrá/Gandía want to let you know that to our great joy we have “neighbors” on our property. In other times that little house that faces the Spiritual Center has been of house of hospitality, welcoming migrant families, but the pandemic left it...
On March 8, after a long journey from Ukraine, a mother with two daughters arrived: a good way to celebrate the Day of the Woman. They come from the western part, and they had not experienced the horror of the war, the sirens, the bomb shelters,...
Their names are Alexander and Halina. They are uncle and niece. They arrived yesterday from Ukraine after 7 days on a bus. Alexander is 82 years old and did not want to leave his mother land, he was willing to wait for death, in peace...
