Los Andes: During the Jubilee of the First Woman Saint from America (2)

Lima (Peru), 07/01/2017, Sr. Ofelia Quispe Huallpara, Provincial Superior of Los Andes.- Saint Rose of Lima continues walking paths of faith. As we are celebrating 400 years of Saint Rose of Lima’s death, her relics travel across different places of Peru as an example of a DOMINICAN LAY WOMAN.
 

Los Andes: During the Jubilee of the First Woman Saint from America (1)

Lima (Peru), 29/06/2017, Srs. of the Province of Los Andes.- On June 28th night Fr. Juan José Salaverry OP, Prior of the Province of Saint John the Baptist in Peru, brought the relics of Saint Rose of Lima to our Provincial house in Lima. 
 

Accompany, sustain, and strengthen hope: Sharing the pain of the people of Mocoa

Mocoa (Colombia), 06/28/2017, Sr. Pastora Marín.- You never know what a person can do or how he will react to a sudden tragedy ... The people of Mocoa, Putumayo, in Colombia have suffered one of the greatest natural catastrophes of this century.

Bogotá: First Profession in the hands of the Superior General

Bogotá (Colombia), 06/25/2017,News Editor.- We thank the Lord for the First Profession of Liliana María Huertas Robayo, in our Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of Charity of the Presentation of Our Lady. The Eucharist celebrated in the Chapel of Casa Central was presided by Monsignor. Raúl Alfonso Carrillo Martínez, Bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Puerto Gaitán and concelebrated by Fr. Alberto Múnera Dueñas sj and many Dominican Fathers.

Lebanon: A Family that Prays

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).

Canonical visit of the general government to Bucaramanga

Bucaramanga (Colombia), 06/23/2017, Sr. Luz Karime Mancipe Laguado.- Pope Francis invited us, religious to “wake up the world, to leave the nest which encloses us in order to be sent.... as the most concrete way of imitating the Lord”. With this certitude, from April 19 to May 20, 2017, we experienced as the dawn of our faith and vocation the canonical visit of our Superior General, Sr. Maria Escayola Coris and the General Councilors: Sr. Mariamma Paul Ollukaran, Sr. María Leonor Charria Angulo, Sr. Rosario Amelia Garcés del Castillo, Sr. Diana Gisela Dolorita and Sr. Blanca Aurora Marín Hoyos.
 

Bolivia: 2nd Meeting of the Laity of the Dominicans of the Presentation

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:

Meeting house in Haiti, a new gesture of charity

Port-au-Prince (Haiti), 06/18/2017, Sr. María Genoveva Rivera.-After the earthquake of 2010 in Haiti, the Dominican Sisters of the Presentation of the province of Medellín planned to build a house for meetings and retreats in Port-au-Prince, in the service of religious, laity and parishes, among others. This dream became reality from July 2016 when the first stage was put into service with 30 fully equipped single rooms.

The Mission of the Dominican Sisters of the Presentation in Agua de Dios (1892-2011): a precious heritage

Santafe (Colombia), 06/01/2017, María Teresa Buitrago E., Faculty of Nursing; María Stella Rodríguez Arenas, Faculty of Theology; Carlos Eduardo Nieto, Faculty of Architecture and Design.- For more than two years, the “Pontificia Universidad Javeriana” (Xavier’s Pontifical University) has been present in Agua de Dios (water of God) for the development of the Investigation Project titled: "Comprehensive approach to the social structure of the territory of Agua de Dios starting with leprosy as the basic reality".