India

Missionary Mandates in India

04/11/2019, Missionary life, India

Almost 83 years have rolled by but the beauty of our Charism is still alive “Living passion to proclaim the Gospel to all peoples,” and through the realization of the theme of the XI General Chapter, “Prophetic communities that announce the Gospel in the Peripheries of the World,” every MSI is summoned to re-commit herself to enter into the dynamism of the mission of Jesus whose proclamati...

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Together we made it

29/10/2019, Missionary life, India

Sr. Anita Alva, the Provincial Superior of Siliguri, during the Inter Provincials meeting at Nellayi, had thrown an open invitation to have a combined seminar on ‘Missionary Animation’ in her province. She wanted as many sisters as possible to participate in it and to harvest benefits from it. The response was overwhelming.

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Missionary Torment

11/10/2019, Missionary life, India

The postulants of the Indian Organisms started their second stage of the formation, at combined house in Siliguri. The above article expresses their torment.

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La donna nella storia della missione

27/05/2019, Missionary life, Reflections, India

Durante l’assemblea della Famiglia PIME avvenuta dal 11 al 16 febbraio 2019 a Medchal – India, sr. Regina da Costa Pedro, ha presentato una riflessione sulla presenza femminile nella storia della missione. Ne riportiamo qui di seguito l’introduzione e il pdf da scaricare. La presenza: quale presenza? Il sostantivo presenza può essere definito come il fatto che una persona o una c...

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sr. Suchita Tigga

04/05/2019, Missionary testimonies, India

sr. Suchita Tigga tells us about her desire to go far and to be a missionary. A strange dream, because in North India, from where she comes from, there were no missionary institutes until the arrival of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate.

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Gudivada 1968

06/04/2019, Media, Photostory, India

Gudivada School (India) 1968 R.C.M. School Gudivada (Roman Catholic Mission School, can be read on the board). The school of reeds and straw is very dark. So, sr. Serena takes class in the courtyard under the neem tree. We can see the presence of small girls (and not only boys!) in between the school benches.

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Bhimavaram 1977

20/03/2019, Media, Photostory, India

Bhimavaram Hospital (India) 1977 Sr. Alphonsa, Panamkattu, one of the first sister doctor from India, returned to help her people after studying in Padua (Italy), examines a patient ophthalmological visit. Le attività sanitarie dell’ospedale si estendono al circondario: in the picture below, the sisters visit a village nearby for the Leprosy Survey to find out if there are people affected b...

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The Missionary Sisters in India 60 years

12/12/2018, Media, Photostory, India

We are in Gudivada, the first community of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate opened in India in 1948, which over the years has grown in number of sisters, nationality (in 1954 it accepts the first vocations from India) and of activities: such as a clinic, an equipped hospital and a school that serve the whole surrounding area. So, in 1967, sr. Edvige Zanfrini – above – while visits a pa...