News and Events

Bogotá (Colombia), 11/16/2018, Sr. Olga María Bottia.- On Wednesday, November 7, 2018 was held at the University of La Salle in Bogota, the International Conference "EDUCATING FOR SOLIDARY HUMANISM". It was organized by the Inter-American Confederation of Catholic Education (CIEC). The event was attended by 560 people (Priests, Religious and religion teachers) of different nationalities.

San Salvador (El Salvador), 11/10/2018, Sr. Evelyn Guadalupe Córdova Grande.- On Saturday October 20th, in the Parroquia Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in San Salvador, El Salvador, it took place the celebration of Perpetual Vows of our Salvadoran sister Yesenia Ester Calderón Hernández. The communities of Santa María Ixhuatán, Guatemala and Colonia Dolores, San Salvador accompanied our sister and also we had the presence of the Provincial Superior, Janet Ceja Sáenz.

El Salvador, 11/07/2018, Sr. Evelyn Guadalupe Cecilia Córdova Grande, province of Guadalupe.- After 38 years of waiting for the sainthood of Mgr. Oscar Arnulfo Romero to be recognized it, the day to celebrate him has finally come on October 14th 2018. Even though it has been more than 38 years in which Salvadoran people had already recognized him like a saint. His sainthood was already acknowledged through his preaching, his defense and respect for life, and for his effort to make peace and justice possible. Salvadoran people always loved him, because they found in him consolation. He became their voice, as our parents and grandparents taught us.

Dourdan (France), 10/29/2018, Dourdan Community.- To commemorate October 14, the birth day of our Mother Foundress, the association « Les amis du couvent de Marie Poussepin » (the friends of the convent of Marie Poussepin) in Sainville had the beautiful idea to organize on October 6, 2018, a pilgrimage on the footsteps of Marie Poussepin from Dourdan to Sainville.

Medellín (Colombia), 10/27/2018, Sr. Ana Cecilia Villegas.- The Team for the pastoral of Vocations in the Province of Medellin has wanted to create a sequence of ten vocational video-clips, on topics which would respond to the process of awakening and promoting vocations by presenting to the youth of today the charism of Marie Poussepin as a proposal l for the following of Jesus.

Bangalore (India), 10/26/2018, Media team.- Sr. Daisy Rose Peenikaparamban and the Media team of the Province of India is happy to share with us a Video they have prepared on Blessed Marie Poussepin. Their dream was to produce a film, which would have been very expensive, but are grateful for the collaboration and support received from all the Sisters to produce this Video. 

Melipilla (Chile), 10/26/2018, Erwin Olmos Palacios, missionary of the Ligua.- Between October 12th and 14th, the “Presentation Missionaries” community coming from different places from Chile and Argentina, met at Nuestra Señora de la Presentación School in Melipilla. Nuns, priests and lay people met under the slogan “Church with open eyes, not sleeping”.

Con Con (Chile), 10/24/2018, Sr. Jeny Obreque.- Almost 100 PRESENTATION YOUNG and some teachers met on August 31st, September 1st and 2nd at Santa María Goretti School in Concón, which is ruled by Dominican Sisters of Charity of the Presentation, representing the three schools the congregation has in Chile. The objective of this activity was to look for together the way how to be a change agent in its corresponding environments.

Pitalito (Colombia), 10/17/2018, Lay Participants.- From October 11 to 14, 2018, the 17th meeting of the Lay associates of the Dominican Sisters of the Presentation was held in Pitalito (Huila). Its objective was to share on the Encyclical “LAUDATO SI” of Pope Francis about taking care of our common house.