INTERNATIONAL ENCOUNTER WITH THE YOUTH
Looking Forward to: THE INTERNATIONAL ENCOUNTER WITH THE YOUTH OF MOTHER CANDIDA
Encounter of Educators of the Family of Mother Candida
Last Saturday, October 9, 2021, 400 educators from the schools of Mother Candida, with representatives from 58 educational centers, a good number from our very own schools gathered virtually for an international encounter of educators. This was done within the context of the celebration of the 15oth Founding Anniversary of the Hijas de Jesus.
Celebrating SMAD Teacher’s Day in the Month of the Holy Rosary
Celebrating SMAD Teacher's Day last October 7, 2021, assumes significance amid the coronavirus pandemic. In this crisis, educators have shown, as they have done so often, good leadership and innovation in ensuring that #LearningNeverStops, that no learner is left behind.
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REMEMBERING A COLLEAGUE IN THE MISSION
NEWS FROM JAPAN
Filipino Missionaries in Japan, Past, and Present
OCTOBER. MISSION month. Let it not be eclipsed by the still ongoing worldwide pandemic. What is it like to be a MISSIONARY in a foreign land? In the article below, I share with you a “glimpse”, as I reflected on the life of a colleague and the years of “partnership” I had with her in the Japan Mission. She passed away on September 28, 2021, in the Philippines because of COVID. For privacy, let us call her Sr. M.
SMAD’s Call to Ecological Conversion: A Technocratic Paradigm
Last September 29, 2021, the Educative community of SMAD, through the initiative of the RCA and the Pastoral Ministry, held another session on “Laudato Si” with Msgr. Paul Cuison, JCD as the invited speaker. He showed us the deeper root causes of the environmental crisis that Pope Francis has richly discussed in his encyclical on the call to ecological conversion on the section of technocratic paradigm – that logic and science attempt to control nature and assert power over it.
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VIRTUAL MEETING OF THE DAUGHTERS OF JESUS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
Digital media has allowed what we would not have imagined a few years ago, to meet all the communities at once, to greet each other, to get to know each other, to remember each other, to reflect, and to share. Of the 678 Daughters of Jesus that we are in the world, 530 were connected. The objective was to offer a meeting place for the Daughters of Jesus to share the presence of the Congregation, in the Church and in the world, on the occasion of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the foundation. Read it HERE.
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A DAY OF THANKSGIVING AND HOPE
September 8, the birthday of our Blessed Mother....a day that brought rains and floods to many areas...but also a day that brought sunshine and rainbows in the hearts of our sisters in the Province.
