Month: March 2019

Lent in the Land of Jesus

This week began one of my favourite moments of the year, Lent, in preparation for the Holy Week. But why? If it supposed to be a time for sacrifice and conversion. Well precisely because it is much more than that. When I was a child, I thought that one of the places I most wanted to know was the place where Jesus lived. I thought it would be something magical and it is but in a different way than what I imagined. Most of us when we hear the word Jerusalem think, “The land of Jesus”. And even the movies that we watched as children just show this one aspect. Forgetting that in this small space of land there coexist besides different cultures and the three great religions, many other forms of faith and equally those who do not believe at all but choose this land as their home. Of course, this makes the experience of this Lenten season much more unique. The novices and Juliana decided to start our Lenten purposes by participating in …

A trip to Tunisia

For a few days the whole novitiate community went to Tunis to visit our sisters. The excursion was well organized and it was a wonderful experience. We visited the projects our sisters had established in some other places around Tunis. Our first stop was in a ceramic shop where we could see the local people working on making and painting different things like cups, pots, bowls, etc. In Hammamet they have a very special kind of clay but at the moment this work is very difficult because of the devastating flood of six months ago. We went to a creche, where 15 babies are taken care of. These babies belong to single mothers, who leave them there because they are unable to care for them. The mothers visit them often and will take them home when they are able to take care of them, usually one year later. The sisters and the personnel are very friendly and really care well for the babies. They also work to secure the rights of the mothers. On a …