Today we’re going to introduce you to the fraternity of Kabarondo, in eastern Rwanda. Welcome to our neighborhood, known as “the Hill of the Eternal,” “umusozi w’Uwiteka” in Kinyarwanda. It is on the edges of the city. Here people comfortably situated economically rub elbows with others who are materially quite poor. We live among them, […]
It was 70 years ago that two Little Sisters came to settle in Alice Springs, a small town in the heart of Australia. Two years earlier, L.Sr. Magdeleine had been on her tour of the world, and she had learned about the lot of the Aboriginal people. She had desired to have Little Sisters living […]
This year we are marking the 50th anniversary of the Fraternity’s presence in the Philippines. To celebrate this milestone, we have embarked on a journey—both inwardly and in a very concrete, physical way. Throughout the year, we have been revisiting the various places where we lived up till now. This has led us on a […]
Exactly 30 years ago, we heard that the seven monks from Our Lady of the Atlas Abbey had been assassinated. The gift they made of their lives continues to challenge us. We take this opportunity to reflect on the deep friendship that existed between the monks and the Little Sisters living in Algeria. August 20, […]
Easter: a salvation history that’s still being lived out today, the victory of light over darkness, of life over death. This all became very clear to me 10 years ago, when we were celebrating the anniversary of our community of Szczecin in Poland. For the celebration we had invited our neighbors and friends to come, […]
A year ago, here in Brussels, we had a feast of St Joseph that was like an anticipation of the banquet in the Kingdom of Heaven…a universal banquet that suddenly breaks into our wounded world. It touched me a lot and that’s why I wanted to share about it today. In our parish of St […]
As in all large cities, problems can become concentrated in certain poorer neighborhoods. Where there is no hope of getting decent work, there often tends to be an increase in violence and in the chances of falling into drug addiction…Frequently, touchy situations unfold before me as I can only watch, powerless. But sometimes there’s something […]
I would like to try to share with you the connections I have gradually forged with the world of prostitution and, more specifically, with the people caught up in this network here, in one of the streets of our neighbourhood in Copenhagen. When I arrived in Denmark in 1972, I used to encounter local women […]
A new fraternity was born this year, in Kawaguchi, about an hour from Tokyo. Let’s find out what the Little Sisters are living there, and how they came to be in this particular place. Last year, while we were meeting together with all the Little Sisters of Japan, we had a strong sense of being […]
In Damascus, over the last few months, our lives and those of our neighbours have been marked by terrible pain followed by great joy. In the very church that was plunged into mourning by blind violence, we have seen life and hope spring forth once more. All this fills our hearts and we would like […]