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This week we are invited to pray for the 36 Sisters of St. Joseph serving in Belgium from the Institut de Souers de Saint Joseph, Chambéry, and Lyon. Their works include education, pastoral care and various social activities. Youth and Climate Action: https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/90415/teen-climate-leaders-back-to-work-after-return-to-belgium-anuna-de-wever-youth-for-climate-transatlantic-trip-cop25/

This week we are invited to pray for the 2 Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange California who minister in Australia. To read more about the CSJ’s of Orange: https://csjorange.org/ministries/sisters-in-ministry/ As the fires in Australia continue to emit carbon into the atmosphere, and destroy homes, recognition of Indigenous wisdom is rising: https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/12/world/aboriginal-australia-fire-trnd/index.html

Enjoy scenes from around the Motherhouse and O Come All Ye Faithful sung by S. Pauline Guindon., organ played by S. Shirley MacNamara and tech lead Miroslava Tripaliouk. Click on title for link to view video.

It is with sadness that the Sisters of St. Joseph of Sault Ste. Marie announce the death of Sister Marguerite Vick on January 3, 2020 at St. Joseph’s Motherhouse, North Bay, Ontario. Reception of the Body - St. Joseph's Motherhouse - Tuesday, January 7, 2020 at 2 pm Prayer Vigil - Tuesday at 7 pm Mass of Christian Burial - Wednesday, January 8, 2020 - 11 am - St. Joseph's Motherhouse MAY SISTER MARGUERITE REST IN PEACE

There are 10 Associates and 56 Sisters of St. Joseph of Annecy ministering in Wales, in parish work, diocesan administration, as catechesis, in health care, hospice, chaplaincy, schools, university, prisons, and hospitals. We are invited to pray for them and for the people of Wales during these Christmas Days.

May the Christmas season be filled with joy, love and peace of the child born in a manger. May these blessings carry you into 2020.

This week we are invited to prayer for the 3740 Sisters of St. Joseph, the 2609 Associates, and the 34 Agrégées who live and minster in the United States of America. They minster in soup kitchens, shelters, universities, schools, hospitals, courtrooms, prisons, retreat centres, offices, nursing homes, laboratories, studios, and hospices, functioning as educators, lawyers, doctors, nurses, family therapists, social workers, patents advocates, spiritual directors, parish minsters, theologians, psychologists, physical therapists, administrators, artists, authors, musicians, poets and a myriad of other professions. Congregations of St. Joseph living in the United States are: Baden, Boston, Brentwood, Buffalo, Carondelet, Concordia, Congregation of St. Joseph, Erie, Orange, Philadelphia, Rochester, Springfield, St. Augustine, Watertown, West-Hartford-Chambery, and Winslow-Lyon. Perhaps the best way to see a wide overview is to visit the US Federation website: http://www.cssjfed.org/

For the rest of this week we are invited to pray for the people of Dubai and the three Sisters of St. Joseph of Chambéry who minister there. An article from the 2017 journal. Please scroll to the last page for news about Dubai: http://www.csjchambery.org/site/upload/csjournal/csjournal_83_en.pdf

The Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet presently have 3 sisters ministering in Uganda. In 2008, five Sisters of St. Joseph were welcomed to Gulu, Northern Uganda, by Archbishop John Baptist Odama. They immediately began setting up education classes, worked in health clinics, provided child care services, and began training catechists. Today that ministry continues. They have helped to build a maternity clinic in Gulu, where about 16 women in Uganda die every day from pregnancy and childbirth-related complications. They also work with the Water with Blessings project, providing vital water filters to women in the area. To read more about the ministry happening in Uganda go to csjgulu.blogspot.com. (from the Carondelet web site) Read about a 2017 volunteer project to Gulu: https://www.csjsl.org/news/fontbonne-universitys-gulu-immersion-project And December 16, 2019 News: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uganda-refugees-un/ugandas-refugee-farmers-sow-seeds-of-change-idUSKBN1YK0D8

We are invited to pray for the Sisters and Associates serving in Tanzania and for the people of that country. Eighteen Sisters from the Congregations of Annecy, Chambéry, and Congregation of St. Joseph serve in a variety of ministries: hostel for girls, parish work, pastoral work, hospitals and dispensary, education, faith formation, and village visiting. Read about Sr. Jackie Goodin’s experience: https://www.csjoseph.org/cleveland/sister-jackie-in-tanzania/ https://www.vaticannews.va/en/africa/news/2019-12/tanzanian-president-releases-5-000-prisoners.html

We invite you to pray for the people of Switzerland and the Sisters and Associates who minister there. From the Congregations of Annecy, Cuneo, and Lyon there are a total of 11 Sisters and 30 Associates ministering in: parish work, education of dropouts, pastoral work with migrants, home care for the elderly, education, and presence through retirement. Here are two articles of interest: Climate change: https://www.euronews.com/2019/12/02/before-and-after-see-how-swiss-glaciers-have-shrunk-dramatically-across-150-years https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/cleanspace-_outer-space--switzerland-takes-the-lead-cleaning-up-the-mess-/45422094

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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.

Today, November 8, is National Aboriginal Vetrans Day. We express gratitude to Indigenous Vetrans who volunteered to fight for this country. Thank you for your service!

This week we pray for the Sisters of St. Joseph and Associates ministering in Peru. Presently there are 37 Sisters from the congregations of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart, the Carondelet Congregation and the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada (Pembroke). Their ministries include: parish ministry and education, pastoral care, community development, health, governance, advocacy, empowerment of women, spiritual formation and prison ministry We hold in our hearts in a particular way Sister María Choquez and Sister Gloria Muchypiña serving in their home area Chincha Valley. There are also 16 Associates connected with this mission. We are also mindful of the many Canadian sisters who began our missions in Peru, and were graced by Christ’s love radiating in the people.

November 20, 2019 7 pm - 9 pm Pro Cathedral, North Bay