Day: 5. May 2016

Iracema’s birthday 2016

Published by Juliana

On Monday 02nd  we celebrated Iracema’s birthday, she is an associate from Brazil and she is part of our NDS Community in Ein Karem. During the day some of our Brothers and Sisters were preparing the food and the place for the party. At 7:00 o’ clock all of us and also Joel and Cristóvão, our brothers of Sion from the community of Ratisbonne, came to share with Iracema this special moment. The party was a surprise for Iracema, so when she arrived we sang Happy birthday for her in English and then in Portuguese. Iracema was very happy and thankful with God for her life; and with the NDS Community. She said “I feel we are a family”. We enjoyed a delicious barbecue with some salads and snacks. After the dinner Iracema and her husband Luciano, who is also an associate of Sion from Brazil, began the dance and some people followed them dancing Brazilian music. After that we also sang and dance the Psalm 133 “ Hine Ma tov”  (How good, how delightful …

Encounter with Jesus

Published by Juliana

In this canonical year we are called to know in a deeper way our Charism and Spiritually. For that reason we are reading, studying and reflecting our Constitutions, the Bible and some books of our Congregation. Every week we have sessions with Sister Juliana about the Constitutions and every day we are reading the Sion’s books and the Bible. During this month we are receiving at Ecce Homo some lectures about the Bible with the purpose of continue discovering the Word of God. Father Lionel, who is a Franciscan Priest, is teaching us about it. His way of teaching encourages us to be aware about our relationship with the Word of God and how we can communicate it to the people who are around us. This kind of lectures are very challenging and interesting for us because our Charism invited us to know more about the Word of God. For instance, last week we were sharing Constitutions number 6 that says, “Our vocation is characterized by the word of God which is central in our …