MATRUCHHAYA CELEBRATES INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

MATRUCHHAYA CELEBRATES INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

Today, Matruchhaya had International Women’s Day celebration. Sr. Meena Dhabi, our Provincial Coordinator, was the Chief Guest and Sr. Zita de Souza, our Vice Provincial was the Guest of Honour. There are 100 women from different villages who participated in the celebration. The cultural program added colour to the celebration.  The group composed of 21 students who completed Shivan classes and Beautician course were honored with the certificates. Sr. Meena

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THE OPTION FOR WOMEN, WEAVING HISTORY FROM OUR MDR CHARISMA

THE OPTION FOR WOMEN, WEAVING HISTORY FROM OUR MDR CHARISMA

Luisa Perez (Humbelina) after 40 years working as a schoolteacher and at the age of 56, decided to come to Monte Plata and together with Carmen Cuadrado and Tere Pagan, founded a community of insertion in this town, one of the poorest in the country, in 1985. After an assessment of the situation, the priority was to work with women, due to their marginalized situation, their subjection to machismo and

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SISTER PILAR, A WOMAN WHO WEAVES HISTORY

SISTER PILAR, A WOMAN WHO WEAVES HISTORY

Pilar Baratech was one of the first Missionary Dominican Sisters of the Rosary who arrived in Guatemala more than 50 years ago and became a Guatemalan citizen. And together with other sisters, they opened breaches in a different reality and culture. Several of them remained planted in these sacred lands. She and the other sisters have accompanied the different historical moments of the country and in the same way she

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You transfigure the disfigured…

You transfigure the disfigured…

Let us climb the mountain with you, our humanity  longs to be transfigured, embraced in its wound illumined in its night sheltered in its homelessness listened to in its groaning caressed in its limit healed in its heartbreak transfigured in its desolation. May the faces disfigured by war and hunger be transfigured by you. May the disfigured faces of migrants at the borders be illuminated by your hope. May no

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A DAY OF GRATITUDE

A DAY OF GRATITUDE

The children of 5 villages were gathered at Nicol Bhavan today. Today is the day to appreciate the efforts made by these kids to continue their studies. It is also a day to honor the educators who worked hard to make the dream of promoting quality education to these kids, their families and community. The kids were given prizes for the various competitions conducted during year and an educational kit

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A WOMAN WHO LIBERATES HERSELF

A WOMAN WHO LIBERATES HERSELF

This afternoon Faustina arrives at our house with great enthusiasm because she is starting an online course on Feminist Theology. In spite of her interest in the subject, she comes with many doubts and above all a concern: How will a course of this type be? Today, seeing her with this interest, self-confidence and openness, my thoughts take me back to years ago: Faustina, a widowed woman with a son,

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THE WOMEN OF THE SOUTHERN REGION

THE WOMEN OF THE SOUTHERN REGION

“Blessed women who in their daily walk make history a cry of freedom, of love and hope, of love and hope.” In the south of the country, there was a team that accompanied the peasants of the region in the knowledge and demand of their rights. They were pleased to see that women, and also religious women, felt this call to accompany the doubly exploited peasant women, as Bishop Zubieta spoke to

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THE FLIGHT OF BUTTERFLIES

THE FLIGHT OF BUTTERFLIES

As part of our options as Missionary Dominican Sisters of the Rosary, from our origins we have prioritized the accompaniment of women, their growth and empowerment. In this month of March in which we commemorate the International Women’s Day, we want to share with you from the community of Puerto Rico, the work of a center that we have been supporting since 2015 in the presence of one of our

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SAINT JOSEPH: IN THE LIFE OF THE MISSIONARY DOMINICAN SISTERS OF THE ROSARY PART III

SAINT JOSEPH: IN THE LIFE OF THE MISSIONARY DOMINICAN SISTERS OF THE ROSARY PART III

What does St. Joseph mean or has meant for your life? We ask our sisters who pertains to this Province of Central America and Caribe because Sr. Josefina Sarrazin had the inspiration to put the Province under the protection of St. Joseph. What I do remember, and many sisters will remember is that during the years I joined the Congregation in the Novitiate of Pamplona, in 1963, there was a

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MARTYRDOM WITHOUT DEATH? IMPOSSIBLE!

MARTYRDOM WITHOUT DEATH? IMPOSSIBLE!

“There is the martyrdom of those who are put to death for not denying Jesus Christ…. But there is also the daily martyrdom, which does not entail death, but which is also one type of “losing one’s life” for Christ, fulfilling one’s duty with love, according to the logic of Jesus…!” Pope Francis, Angelus of July 4, 2013. – “Hurry up, the bus is coming!”, Sister Teresa shouts from the

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