we are invited to pray for the 5 Sisters and 5 Associates from the Chambéry Congregation ministering in Sweden in pastoral care and refugee work. An interesting historical perspective of the sisters presence in Sweden may be read at: https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lup/publication/53313ac7-4e7d-45ff-bb80-401efdb52fdb Please click on the link to “summary”. And a good news story: Video is 2 minutes long: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/12/steel-making-city-swedens-greenest-community-191205122043843.html

We will pray for the people of Sri Lanka and the three Sisters from the Lyon Congregation who minister there in pastoral and social work. Check out the Lyon congregation tree on: http://www.sjlindia.org/presenceothers.php News about Monday’s extreme rain fall in Sri Lanka: https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/502051

This week we pray for the people of Senegal and the Sisters who minister there from the Institut des Souers de Saint Joseph, the Annecy and the Lyon congregations. Their work includes nursery schools, parish work, pastoral work with youth, homecare for the ill, an orphanage, and a house for single mothers. And so we continue to listen to the heart of the world! Here is someone else who is attentive to making the world (and particularly Senegal) a better place: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/15/sport/gorgui-dieng-charity-award-nba-sportspeople-spt-intl/index.html

This week we pray for the people of Romania and the 8 Sisters of St. Joseph serving there, from the Aosta and Cuneo Italian communities. Their ministry includes: a nursing school, parish and pastoral work, youth ministry, homecare for the Ill, orphanage and house for single mothers. At the very end of this link there is a 1972 photo of Sisters of St. Joseph meeting in the village of Zboyiska in Lviv, Ukraine. https://www.csjkansas.org/interrupted-lives/faces-of-faith/

We listen to the heart of the world and hold in our prayer the Sisters of St. Joseph and the people of PUERTO RICO.