NEWS UPDATE
In view of the preparation for our General Chapter we have been busy collating reports from the different parts of the Province and this gives us a chance to drop in and enjoy the beauty of Malta
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The garden of our Convent in Balzan and the Infirmary |
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Our School in Balzan which is about to be handed over to the Jesuits. |
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From the blue Mediterranean to the blue skies in Aberdeen, enjoying the spring blossoms!! |
Canning Town !Cold Ash Spirituality Centre !Communications Team !
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March 3rd 2008
Re-opening of St. Margaret's Canning Town Mgr. Jonathan Vicar General of Brentwood Diocese celebrated the Eucharist in the community chapel. A thanksgiving for the return of the community to Bethel Avenue following two years of dispersal, some sisters to Cold Ash others to Anchor House. Mgr Mentioned in particular the valuable witness given by our sisters in Anchor House where they lived with the homeless, sharing their hostel accommodation.
Sr. Joan Doyle Provincial Welcoming the Community ....
The willow tree still provides shade
Garden with St. Margaret's school in background |
New Convent 23 Bethel Avenue Canning Town Old Convent Chapel far left is now donated to the Diocese So we allow the new community space to find their way settling back into Canning Town where we have been inserted since the 1930's, surviving the East End bombing, the destruction of the first Convent, now easing into the 21st century.
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| Cold Ash Spirituality Centre
Srs. Philomena, Kumari and Maureen (from left) have recently come to Cold Ash to form the new community for the Centre. |
| January 3rd to 6th 2008 'Under 50's' gather in Cold Ash looking ahead to the General Chapter. Our fmm Spirituality Centre gained some special momentum this month when the younger sisters in the Province got together in Cold Ash. Internationality and different cultures can easily be found among the fmm. The theme of the meeting was based on the General Chapter 'Franciscan Women called to live the Kenosis of Christ in creative fidelity and solidarity with our suffering world'. The reflection led by Helen and Leontine left us challenged to rediscover the depth of our relationships: our relationship with God through contemplation and adoration, ever open to God's transforming Love; our relationships in community open to receive, welcome, share, trust and reconcile; with those around us, listening attentively to the needs of the world so that we can respond to to-days demands.
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| Around and About.....
February 2008 will find our new Provincial Council meeting in London, our Communications Team assembling in Cold Ash and the first group of sisters taking up residence in the new Convent, Canning Town
Note Updated Reflection The Lenten Reflection ... from Ashes to Fire invites us into a quiet response to Jesus invitation...'come follow me....' |
In addition .....
February 11th is the 150th anniversary of the apparition of Our Lady to Bernadette and will be celebrated by a 'world Day for the Sick'. Inter congregational.... we rejoice with out Jesuit Brothers on the election of Fr. Adolfo Nicolas SJ as their new Superior General. Fr. Nicolas will surely be well known to our sisters in Japan and to many others who will have passed through the East Asian Pastoral Institute in Manila where he was appointed director in 1979. Finally we prepare for a very early Easter. They say that Easter on March 23rd comes around only once in a century!!! |
