FEBRUARY  For parishes

We pray that parishes, placing communion at the centre, may increasingly become communities of faith and fraternity and welcome towards those most in need.

SMSM INTENTIONS:  

We remember our Sisters celebrating Jubilees, and thank God for all the graces they have received in their Marist missionary lives:

75 YEARS

Sr Cecile MAILLOUX          02 February 1948         USA 

Sr Mary Brendan WARD    10 February 1948          New Zealand

70 YEARS

Sr. Mary Ida SNYDER                  02 February 1953   USA

Sr. Margaret Mary FITZGIBBON   11 February 1953    New Zealand

50 YEARS

Sr. Maria Goretti VAKAOQOTABUA   11 February 1973    Fiji

Let us continue to remember in our prayers:

§  Our sisters participating in the Regional Chapters:

    Oceania: 6 – 15 February in Fiji.

          Asia-Pacific: 19 – 28 February in Mont Mou, New Caledonia.

  The Americas: 1-15 March in Mandeville, Jamaica.

  Africa-Europe:  5 – 15 March at the Hermitage, France.

§  All SMSM as we study the current situation of our Congregation and as we reflect again on our charism as Marist, missionary, religious women.

§  Our novices, postulants and aspirants who are discerning their vocations, and our sisters who are accompanying them.

§  Our generous benefactors who help us by their prayers and sacrifices.

      § Our sisters, our loved ones and our benefactors who have died recently.