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MARCH 2020 Be on the alert! It is over here, it is over there; I won't go out. Bye, bye, wicked virus; You won't get me! (Sr. Rachelle Bonneville) A little microscopic thing called Coronavirus has turned the planet upside down. Everything is different and we have to learn how to do things in another way. It is a worldwide health emergency. Everybody is in lockdown. An unprecedented situation where everything seems to vacillate. The streets are empty, the stores are closed and the churches are locked.…

Death and burial during the pandemic

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…

Message for April 25 from the novitiate in Paris

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…

An unusual celebration

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…