Beirut (Lebanon), 05/30/2017, Sr. Henriette-Myriam.- For the first time In the month of May, the Church of Maronite Rite, where we actually are now (since we were before in the Latin Rite): Father Georges, priest of the Mar Takla Parish and a group of parishioners invited us to live the Marian pilgrimage. Sister Bernadette of Lourdes and myself (after twenty years of presence in Lebanon), have lived these beautiful daily celebrations from family to family with the statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In the morning, the statue arrived in the family where we would go in the evening (the statue would stay there until the next day).
Cochabamba (Bolivia), 07/12/2017, Sr. Socorro García A.- In the casa de retiro Marie Poussepin (Marie Poussepin Retreat House) in Cochabamba-Bolivia the second national meeting of the Laity of the Dominicans of the Presentation in Bolivia took place from June 11 to 12. The delegations from the Departments of La Paz, Santa Cruz and Cochabamba participated in this meeting. With great hopes and expectations we shared the joy of the meeting and admired the beauty of the place. At the end of these days of rich reflection, Josué Barra, a laity who came from La Paz had an enjoyable talk with some of his companions: