On 15 August 2020 in the Provincial House of Dhaka – Mirpur, in the presence of Bishop Emeritus mons. Theotonius Gomes, the novice Provati Mardi made her First Profession, thus beginning her journey as Missionary Sister of the Immaculate.
With suitcases as ‘migrants’, on 11.9.1968 sr. Maddalena Pirodda and Sr. Theresa Pathickal (the first Indian MSI destined to the mission outside her country) arrive in Hong Kong. The photo below shows them still in the airport, where the Canossian Sisters would come to pick them up and by whom they would be given hospitality for the first months waiting to start their own communities a...
In 1968, the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate opened a community in London, where the sisters could prepare themselves for the mission in Asia. Meanwhile, the sisters took care of a small, multi-ethnic kindergarten. They also worked in the Parish and took advantage of opportunities for missionary animation in England.
What a long awaited and beautiful day in the life of a religious – perpetual profession day – which translates “wedding day” with none other than our Lord and Redeemer, Jesus Christ! The psalm 45 says: “Radiant they shall enter the palace of the king.” And before that: “the king shall desire your beauty”; “the king will fall in love with your beauty”! The psalmist is talki...
From day one of my destination to Papua New Guinea until I arrive there I would keep repeating to myself, “Get ready to be born again, because a missionary, irrespective of the place she goes, can produce hundred fold only if she knows to die to self.” My mission preparations had been a long journey. Being in Italy as a student cum member of the International and Inter cultural communities I c...
sr. Angela Casati, missionary in Guinea Bissau, tells us something about her encounter with Mrs Danfa, the first Christian of the village of Blassar, 8 km from Bissorà.
Tv2000 dedicates the episode of the Diary of Pope Francis of 21 May 2020 to the Corona Virus Emergency in the Amazon. Present among the guests sr. Laura Valtorta, Missionary of the Immaculate – PIME, who connects directly from Peru, where she is staying for an itinerant evangelization initiative. Speaking with her are: Lucia Capuzzi, Avvenire journalist, father Angelo Plodari, Scalabrinian M...
The first four MSI landed in Brazil on 10 July 1954. Some thoughts taken from the diary tell the moments of departure and arrival.
A young Sister, Sr. Giuseppina Ciserani, on her way to Hong Kong, passes through India in 1969.
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