Sister Denise Pariseau, on mission at the Community of Montréal in Canada, shares with us some pearls of her apostolate with prisoners and ex-prisoners. Senegal opened me up to the prison world, Cameroon gave me the opportunity to get more involved. Having...
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9th day We walk together When committing ourselves to serving people in precarious situations, we realize that we are embarking on a path of conversion together, changing our perspectives and transforming our heart. Encountering people living on the streets, those...
8th day Like the Good Samaritan Christ Jesus asks us to be converted, to love God and our neighbor, and to pay particular attention to the most destitute and oppressed. ‘‘This implies valuing the poor in their inherent goodness, with their way of being, their...
7th day Among the last ‘‘Saint Teresa of Calcutta, canonized in 2016, has become a universal icon of the charity lived to the extreme in favor of the poor and the excluded of the society. Foundress of the Missionaries of Charity, she dedicated her life to the dying...
6th day ‘‘Go, leave your country…’’ Leaving to answer God’s call, requires a stripping way, a passage from death to life, an experience of the Pascal Mystery. This is what we experience when we leave our native country to answer an obedience. Somewhere deep down,...
5th day Free the captives Captives are all people deprived of their freedom in one way or another. We can mention all forms of slavery, human trafficking, exploitation, abuses of all kinds. Any situation where the human person is denied in their deepest being and...
3rd day Commitment to the poorest We are called to recognize the living Christ in the most abandoned and rejected ones in our societies. ‘‘From the very beginnings of the Church, deacons were ordained to serve the poorest, the Diakonia’’[1]. Cf. Acts 6, 1-5. Then...
2nd day Jesus, the poor Messiah Jesus, the Son of God, chose to be incarnated among the poorest. Pope Leo XIV reminds us, ‘‘Jesus was born in humble circumstances, from his birth he was laid in a manger, and very soon, to save him from death, his parents fled to...
Introduction During these three days of preparation for the celebration of the 105th anniversary of our Institute of the Missionary Sisters of the Holy Spirit, we wish to join Pope Leo XIV in meditating on the theme of World Peace Day 2026, “Peace be with you all:...
