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...
4th day Caring for the sick Throughout his public ministry, Jesus paid particular attention to the sick, healing them. In this regard, Leo XIV emphasizes that, ‘‘The Christian tradition of visiting the sick, washing their wounds and comforting the afflicted is not...
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...
Foreword Sister Eugénie Caps invoked the Holy Spirit to be enlightened in her path in following Christ. She had a desire to make Christ and His Gospel known to those who did not know Him, or knew very little about Him and above all, to show the most abandoned how much...
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:...
The Holy Spirit, the soul of the Mission “For when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, since I am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! If I preach voluntarily, I have a reward. If not voluntarily, I am simply...
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 newness of God On the day of Pentecost, the disciples and Mary, the Mother of Jesus, had a unique experience. The Holy Spirit manifests himself in precise and concrete signs, the violent wind, the tongues of fire. He brings...
To invoke the Holy Spirit “In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows...
