At the General House, the 47 young sisters currently present in Europe met for a time of formation from December 27, 2024 to January 4, 2025.
For each of them, these were intense days of formation, sharing, confrontation, and reflection, in the special setting of the inauguration of the Jubilee Year 2025. They were accompanied by the leaders of the juniorate journey of the Euro-Mediterranean Province and the Besançon-Savoie Province.
The Superior General with her Council animated some days to involve also the young sisters in the journey towards the Europe Province, which will also be formed during the Jubilee Year of Hope: “This coincidence,” stressed Mother General, sister Maria Rosa, “is a great opportunity for all of us. Let us open with boldness to share the richness of our charism made of closeness, tenderness, compassion for the poor, in Europe and in the world, with the light of hope that faith gives us.”
This year the formation of all the young sisters of the congregation, is on the vow of poverty, in its theological, spiritual, canonical and charismatic content, the vow of poverty in relation to the vow of chastity, obedience and service to the poor and especially in its existential, personal and community consequences. This is a great challenge at every latitude.
One day was also dedicated to the General Chapter 2025 Declaration on Communication. Those in charge of the Communications Office of the Missionary Sisters of Mother Cabrini presented the theme, “Communication and Religious Congregations of Women”; in the afternoon.
Sara, from the Communications Office of the General Curia, presented the theme, “First-person Witnesses for Effective Communication.”
Halfway through their meeting, the young sisters had the joy of being able to make the pilgrimage to St. Peter’s Basilica and thus pass through the Holy Door, in the spirit of conversion: “Who am I?”, “Where do I go and in whom do I place my hope?”, “What is the deep source of my hope?”
The juniorate years are a time of grace, a time of discovery and familiarization, in listening to the Word of God and in immersion in personal and communal prayer, typical of the Sisters of Charity; they are a time of discovery of community life with its joys and limitations; a time of getting to know our foundress Jeanne Antida and the spiritual figures of reference: Vincent de Paul and our saints; they are a special time of getting to know themselves and their own vocation.
To each of these 47 young sisters we wish that during this Jubilee Year they may be good soil for God’s abundant Grace!
