Each year the IBVM and CJ English Provinces hold a joint meeting with the aim of getting to know each other better and meeting up with old friends. This year, knowing that the old divisions between our two institutes may soon be healed, made it an even more significant year than usual. However, with a
Month: October 2020
October 10th, 2020 joint meeting of the IBVM and CJ English provinces
Each year the IBVM and CJ English Provinces hold a joint meeting with the aim of getting to know each other better and meeting up with old friends. This year, knowing that the old divisions between our two institutes may soon be healed, made it an even more significant year than usual. However, with a
On pilgrimage with Mary Ward: New App is launched

In our present time of instant communication and ease of travel, the story of Mary Ward and her life-long desire to seek and know God’s will, can seem like a struggle way beyond human resilience. That an English woman, in Post-Reformation England, could believe the Catholic Church would approve a plan for religious women to
On pilgrimage with Mary Ward: New App is launched
In our present time of instant communication and ease of travel, the story of Mary Ward and her life-long desire to seek and know God’s will, can seem like a struggle way beyond human resilience. That an English woman, in Post-Reformation England, could believe the Catholic Church would approve a plan for religious women to
On Pilgrimage with Mary Ward App
In our present time of instant communication and ease of travel, the story of Mary Ward and her life-long desire to seek and know God’s will, can seem like a struggle way beyond human resilience. That an English woman, in Post-Reformation England, could believe the Catholic Church would approve a plan for religious women to
Now, all our students have returned to their home countries
On Monday 12 October 2020, Selvi IBVM , the last of the six students who lived with us, returned to East Timor. Amelia, a Franciscan sister from South Africa was the first one who left us, as early as July, as she had sisters of her own congregation here in Italy. In August Rosaline IBVM
Mary Ward sisters reach out to Myanmar
In 2017 the Korean Province began a process of discernment regarding the possibility of establishing a mission in Myanmar. Sr Cecilia Lee and Sr Martha Park were assigned to the mission in Myanmar in March 2019, after having done exploratory travels and meeting people of different areas to learn about their felt needs in 2018.
CJ Nepal and Covid-19: A video report

The Nepalese sisters have provided us with a video of their activities during the current pandemic:
A prophetic message for our time

Chris Burke IBVM draws our attention to Pope Francis’ most recent encyclical “Fratelli tutti” and writes.. I imagine that every person in Mary Ward’s ever extending ‘circle of friends’ knows that our global systems are not working well. Everything we hoped for at the turn of the millennium is increasingly fragile: peace, care for the
A prophetic message for our time
Chris Burke IBVM draws our attention to Pope Francis’ most recent encyclical “Fratelli tutti” and writes.. I imagine that every person in Mary Ward’s ever extending ‘circle of friends’ knows that our global systems are not working well. Everything we hoped for at the turn of the millennium is increasingly fragile: peace, care for the
St.Mary’s, Biratnagar – Nepal

Biratnagar is close to an Indian boarder, namely Jogbani and it is through here that the pandemic entered into the Eastern part of Nepal as many Nepalese had to come home suddenly. Some of whom had lost their jobs and other means to support their families. At the beginning of the lockdown a few deserving
A helping hand during the Pandemic 2020 : St.Mary’s Convent, Gorkha, Nepal Region.

The Corona Virus is dramatically changing our lives. It has introduced a mentally draining situation for all of us. As religious we are called to serve the needy around us and offer what we can to help in alleviating the pain and anxiety of our neighbours. We, as a community decided to give our help