MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS FOR WORLD MISSION DAY 2025 19 October 2025 Missionaries of Hope Among all Peoples Dear brothers and sisters! For World Mission Day in the Jubilee Year 2025, the central message of which is hope (cf. Bull Spes Non Confundit, 1), I...
From left to right, Sister Agnes, Sister Lucilina, Sister Olga, Sister Antoinette, Sister Honorine The Missionary Sisters of the Holy Spirit welcome their new General Council, with four newly elected General Assistants, composed of: Sister Olga Fonseca Superior...
Fresco on the ceiling of the Chapel of Neufgrange, depicting Sister Eugénie Caps, surrounded by a People of Africa Holy Spirit, unity in diversity Let us listen to Pope Francis speak to us of another mission that the Holy Spirit fulfills...
The charisms About the gifts and charisms, the Apostle Paul reminds us that “There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit gives them. There are different ways of serving, but the same Lord is served. There are different abilities to...
The Spirit of Truth Speaking of the Holy Spirit, Jesus had said to his disciples, « When the Spirit comes, who reveals the truth about God, he will lead you into all the truth ». John 16:13. Pope Francis reminds us that the Truth is Jesus himself, and that it is...
God dwells in us through his Holy Spirit, as the Apostle Paul affirms in his letter to the Romans, « the Spirit makes you God’s children, and by the Spirit’s power we cry out to God, Father! My Father! ». Romans 8:15. Pope Francis teaches us that we receive this...
For Sister Eugénie Caps, the missionary vocation of the Spiritan Sister, placed under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and the protection of the Virgin Mary, can only lead to the total abandonment of her life to God, to a will to strive towards perfection, even...
The Writings of Sister Eugénie Caps reveal that a missionary vocation cannot exist without a personal experience with Christ, who resolutely invites us to continue the work of Jesus on earth, as she wrote on 21st May 1927 to Catherine Frentz: ‘‘we are called to...
The total self-giving of which Sister Eugénie Caps speaks, calls for a decentering of oneself. It is a path to holiness. That is why, despite the difficulties she encounters, Eugénie always surrenders herself into the hands of God and joyfully welcomes His will....
To walk in the footsteps of Jesus, is to give oneself entirely to Him, and in every circumstance, both in moments of joy and of suffering. Eugénie, very aware of this, sees the gift of herself as a response to emergency and a crisis: that of saving souls’’, Cf. Un...
