Family kitchen gardens from JPIC in pandemic times

Family kitchen gardens from JPIC in pandemic times

I am Mariana de Jesus Oñate Bayas, an Ecuadorian woman who has been part of the Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas Community for the last 9 months. Briefly, I will share what has influenced me to start the family urban kitchen gardens: I was raised in the countryside. Mi mother cultivated and loved her land. In this year, the Centenary of our Founding Father, we have focused on his experience:

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EDUCATION NOWADAYS

EDUCATION NOWADAYS

In-person classes suspension due to the sanitary situation we are currently living and the necessity of guaranteeing the continuation of our students’ learning have imposed challenges on teachers and families. These challenges belong to a curriculum implementation and actions of socio-economic support to families and school staff; new forms for developing pastoral projects; prioritization of competencies; use of technological tools; interactive methodologies; style of organization-communication and adaptation of activities in

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Education within reach of countryside youth

Education within reach of countryside youth

I assumed the commitment of accompanying girls and adolescents in the project “Promocion de la mujer” (“Woman promotion”) of the Dominican Missionary Sisters of the Rosary in the Boarding School Santa Rosa in San Ignacio, Cajamarca, because we value countryside girls’ education, since the importance it has for their development in relation to all the dangers that they face. I arrived at the boarding school on March 10th, a week

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MY EXPERIENCE AS PRINCIPAL IN THE SCHOOL “DE JESUS”

MY EXPERIENCE AS PRINCIPAL IN THE SCHOOL “DE JESUS”

To talk about my experience as principal, is to talk about a place that opened its doors to me many years ago: The Educative Institution “De Jesus.” This community -located in Lima, Peru- is about to celebrate its 102nd anniversary during this June. This school is an educative work of the Dominican Missionary Sisters of the Rosary Congregation, which looks for educating children and teenagers through a Christian human vision.

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Women coexisting with nature: “Family urban vegetable gardens in pandemic times.”

Women coexisting with nature: “Family urban vegetable gardens in pandemic times.”

My name’s Maria Eras, I am married, and I have three children. For me, participating in creating vegetable gardens has been important. To know the land, prepare it, fertilizer it, planting seeds and then taking care of them to harvest them is a huge process. Nature teaches us to practice the virtue of patience. At the end, we harvest our own vegetables, for our family, for the community. The contact

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MY EXPERIENCE

MY EXPERIENCE

I am Erlitha Trajano Conde. My student life in primary school were at the Sepahua boarding school, which is administrated by the Dominican Missionary Sisters of the Rosary. Then, I attended Lambeyeque’s residence, which is also dependent of the sisters. Here, I studied business administration. I have lived a very beautiful experience and, I have had the opportunity of preparing myself professionally in Sepahua as well as in Lambeyeque. Some

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Dear sisters

Dear sisters

I have been asked to write some lines about my experience in the Quinindé community in Ecuador and since I love sharing, that is what I will do. I arrived to Quinindé on September 16th, 2020, after my lockdown in Quito for six months. I came searching for a bigger commitment with the impoverished faces of Ecuador and I have found it here in the “Nuevos Horizontes” neighborhood among afro-Ecuadorian

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EXPERIENCE OF THE NOVITIATE CANONICAL YEAR

EXPERIENCE OF THE NOVITIATE CANONICAL YEAR

“It is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me” (Gal 2:20) “The novitiate is a fundamental stage in the process of formation to the consecrated life. It aims at deepening the specific values of religious life, a life of prayer, as a response to the call of Christ incarnate in the history of humanity”.   We are first year novices, we are enjoying the new experience

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COMMUNITY OF THE AFRICAN NOVITIATE

COMMUNITY OF THE AFRICAN NOVITIATE

Novitiate experience – 2nd year “The Lord is my light and my Salvation, whom I shall fear (Ps. 27)”. By this we mean that the Lord is the source of everything and, therefore, we place all our trust in Him at every moment of our life and vocational journey. Dear Sisters, We, the second-year novices, are happy to share with the sisters of the congregation our experience of two months

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VIVA MOJEÑA TRADITION: NEW DOOR OF THE MISSIONARY TEMPLE WAS BLESSED AND STUDY ON “MAMITAS ABADESAS” WAS PRESENTED

VIVA MOJEÑA TRADITION: NEW DOOR OF THE MISSIONARY TEMPLE WAS BLESSED AND STUDY ON “MAMITAS ABADESAS” WAS PRESENTED

https://youtu.be/V_XTL-k5CJk San Ignacio de Mojos (Beni), May 2 (ANF). – The atmosphere of the Beni population of San Ignacio de Mojos is continuously impregnated with spirituality and religiosity, of what once were the Jesuit reductions of Mojos, back in the XVII and XVIII centuries. But, unlike what happened to several of them after the expulsion of the Jesuits from America, in Mojos the traditions cultivated by the natives and missionaries

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