Events

Our sister Marie-Gabrielle Desbois was getting more and more tired and Sr. Marie Thérèse Logodin was accompanying her in the last weeks of her life. On Holy Thursday, when it was announced that she had died the previous night, the news was accepted in faith and peace. Several sisters summed it up this way, “Now she is with the Lord!” The rules of confinement were strictly followed. Our sister was waked in the St. Pie X hall, at the foot of the big cross, which had been…

Dear sisters: In 1789 during the French revolution, with her deep faith, Angélique LE SOURD let herself be moved by the new reality around her: the persecution of the juror priests. Within this she discovered that God was calling her to get involved in different ways, even risking her life to do it…. In 1816, when calm returned, she and three of her friends decided to live together (April 25), "in order to be better able to do good around them by putting in common their resources…

Such a celebration here at the cemetery is unusual, but today, nothing is as usual: today is not like other days, it is Holy Friday! And the circumstances we all live are very particular. Here, today, thankful for and sensitive to the presence of some family members who have been able to join us, we all form Marie Gabrielle’s family, along with the sisters who follow the celebration from their rooms or other living spaces. We were not able to go to the chapel, but there is…

  "HAIL, FULL OF GRACE, THE LORD IS WITH YOU" It is easy for me to hear this greeting meant for Mary, but harder for me, in these times, to receive such a greeting. It is more likely that I am tempted, like the Hebrews who were complaining in the desert, to hurl abuse at the Lord or in the tough words of the Psalm: "Wake Lord! Why are you asleep?" Psalm 44:23 – "Rescue me from disaster." Psalm 35:17. And yet my faith also calls me…