The day before January 20th
This day we used to make some nice fotos for the media. Already exited but still in a good quiet atmosphere.
Month: January 2016
„St. John in Montana“ News 01/2016
Some members of the Saint John in Montana Novitiate community will soon say goodbye to Ein Karem, and the professed sisters are ready to welcome 3 Novices – Andrea and Nancy from Costa Rica and Lucia from Brazil by the 20 of January, and we are hoping that Maria from Indonesia will be with us by the end of the Orientation Time. As always, time has passed far too quickly, when we remember our time together between our return from our apostolic experiences until Christmas, and then New Year’s Day and Epiphany, and now the retreat time before pronouncing First Vows on the 20th of January, Sion’s Feast Day. During these last weeks, we have shared many good moments, making invitation cards for the Profession, and thank you cards, celebrating Christmas on the 24th of December but also on the 7th of January following the Coptic tradition with Victoria. We also made a short trip to Galilee (another “goodbye”) where we visited Haifa, the Bahai gardens, the church in Nain, Mount Tabor, Safat, the Sea …
Goodbye Galilee
As community of the novitiate, we started the New Year 2016 with our farewell trip in the Holy Land for two days. The first day we visited Haifa, the Baha’i Garden, the Stella Maris Lighthouse and the Carmelite Monastery. The second day we visited Nazareth, the tiny Galilean village of Nein (Lk. 7:11-17), Mount Tabor, (Mt. 17, 1-9), Safed one of the four holy cities in Israel and then we came down to Tabgha, Tiberias Lake and we ended our day in Jericho. After that we came back home with great joy, hoping that we will come back again to these amazing places where we feel Jesus walking with us as he did in those days. This trip helps us to reflect on Jesus’ call and also to prepare ourselves for our retreat in preparation for the 20th of January when we will pronounce our first commitment as sisters of Sion. –
Goodbye 2015 – welcome 2016
Emmanuel, strong God, King of Glory, of justice, prince of peace, Word, Love, Light, Life, way, Truth, Son of God, Son of man. Book 1: 71 We had a great week because we were preparing ourselves for the new year. It’s our last time to be together here as novices in Jerusalem. We enjoyed it a lot and we had prayer and lighting our candle as the candle it is the symbol for ourselves in the new year 2016 to be light for others. We ask God to have Faith in Him and Hope, Love, Mercy, Justice, Peace, Life, Truth, Kindness and Forgiveness for ourselves and others Thanks giving for Sr. Juliana, Sr. Colette and Sr. Ivone We had a celebration to thank Sr. Juliana, Sr. Colette and Sr. Ivone as they accompanied us during these two years of our Novitiate. They are good examples for all of us and we had learned a lot from them and they also learned from us because each one in this community is open, welcoming, …. Each one …
New Year 2016
Faith Is the total, complete, strong and living adherence that we give to the Word of God: God speaks, I believe, that is the act of faith, but when God speaks, He says something. What does He say? He promises us eternal goods, He says that if we seek above all the Kingdom of God and His justice, we shall have His Kingdom, His justice, and in addition, the goods of this world (Mt. 6: 33). He tells us to have confidence, that He has come, “not to lose but to save” (Lk. 9: 56), “for the sick and not for the healthy” (Mk. 2: 17) (Lk. 5: 31) (Mt. 9: 12). He promises us joys and happiness which no human word can utter, “the things that no eye has seen, no ear has heard, things beyond the mind of man” (I Co. 2: 9) (Is. 64: 3). That is what God says to us, so if we believe in God’s word, we must hope for its fulfillment. Hope Hope is the flower of faith …