Sr Carmel Swords IBVM and Sr Annamaria Quinterio CJ are currently paying a visit to South Sudan. They are guests of the community of Loreto Rumbek and discover the new mission that the sisters are developping together with graduates from their school in Rumbek: Building a new school and compound in Aweil. Background: In 2022,
Sister Júlia Milčová CJ has been appointed to be the new Provincial Superior of our Slovak Province. Her term of office will start tomorrow, 1st of December 2024. We wish Júlia and all her fellow sisters a blessed time, courage and hope while following Jesus in the footsteps of Mary Ward. Venerable Mary Ward, pray for
On every 23 of each month, Mary Ward sisters as well as lay friends and companions of Mary Ward pray for the Cause of the foundress of our Institute. We unite in prayer for the people we work with and work for, for those, we encounter in our missions and we pray for justice, integrity
Sr Pratima, one of our General Assistants, is currently visiting Chile. She is meeting with our sisters and with pupils, parents and teachers of the Mary Ward Schools. Here you see her with the CJ community in San Carlos. And here she is with Sr Elena and two of the school coordinators. She also had
A letter from CJs in Ukraine Dear companions, 19th November 2024 was the 1000th day of the full-scale war against Ukraine. However, despite all struggle, every desperation and seemingly intractable situation, we want to witness about our hope. First of all, thank you for your prayers and every expression of concern and support from CJ,
Sr Marion from the English Province is in her time of preparation for the final vows. After a 30-day retreat in Austria, she currently stays three months in Africa and supported first the sisters in Kenya and now in Zimbabwe. Here you can see her with friends of Mary Ward in Zimbabwe. We support Marion
Since the launch of Ecological Education goal in November 2023, the Mary Ward JPIC Office and the JPIC local coordinators have embarked on an ambitious journey to bring ecological education to the forefront of school life. Rooted in the Mary Ward Laudato Si 7-Year Action Plan principles, this initiative united students and teachers worldwide in
The University of San Salvador, Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas, offers Master studies in Latin American Theology, la Maestría en Teología Latinoamericana. Sr Martha Zechmeister CJ is one of the professors and has invited us to share the possibilit for new insciptions for the Master studies. The ‘Master in Latin American Theology’ wants to serve
Those who have entered Mary Ward’s Institute and those lay women and man who belong to the wider Mary Ward Family, as well as teachers at Mary Ward Schools, pupils (former and current) and their parents – they all know about Mary Ward, our foundress and her courrage creating new ways for girl’s education and
On Tuesday morning, 5 November, the Holy Father Francis visited the Pontifical Gregorian University to meet with his community on the occasion of the Dies Academicus. Pope Francis was greeted by Fr Arturo Sosa, Vice Grand Chancellor of the Gregorian University and Provost General of the Society of Jesus, who emphasised how the presence of
Of all things, the text of the Wedding at Canaan is supposed to have something to do with the merging of the two branches of Mary Ward’s Institute? But yes, writes Sr Cosima Kiesner CJ, Provincial Superior of the Middle European Province, in a column on orden.de – the internet portal of the religious congregations
Pastoral work is one of the focal points of many sisters of the Congregatio Jesu – even if it is not always the main focus of their mission. Our general bursar, Sr Anna Schenck CJ, also takes on this task. Every Saturday in November, she interprets the Gospel of the following Sunday for the listeners
The 2 November was the first day of the first joint meeting of IBVM and CJ on the subject of formation. On the way of Becoming One, the formators from both branches of Mary Wards Institute gather to exchange about their experiences and discern important steps for the future. We will keep you updated here
The new issue of our Prayer Newsletter “House of Prayer” is out now. We invite the whole Mary Ward Family and all those following Jesus in the footsteps of Saint Ignatius and Venerable Mary Ward to pray with us. You can find the new issue of “House of prayer” in English, geman and Spanish by
In 1615 Mary Ward’s spiritual experience of the Just Soul with its core values of Freedom, Justice, Sincerity and Felicity as fundamental to all the members of ‘this special state of life‘ shaped her unique charism, a spirituality different from that of the saints of her day. The interconnectedness and interrelatedness of Freedom, Justice, Sincerity
