Our News Gem April 2021
As we celebrate this season of new life, we want to share this photo of seven women, who in September 2020, pronounced their first vows as members of the Sisters of Mary Reparatrix. At year end of 2020, there were 427 members of the Sisters of Mary Reparatrix.
In the photo, the first woman on the left is from Uganda, the others are from Madagascar. Left to right: Agnes Arimpa, Marie Alexandrine Rafaranirina, Emilie Tolojanahary Rahantanirina, Fabienne Miantanirina Rakotomanga, Marie de L’Or Todisoa Razafimanampisarindra, Georgette Ramarovavy, and Emilienne Mirana Razafinirina. We invite our readers to pray for these women along with so many other persons who are at crossroads in their respective life journeys. Before long it will be graduation time for many students – some of them completing their courses and confronted with a job search while other students will move on to further studies. We pray for students, for those discerning a call to serve in a specific ministry, those preparing to commit themselves in marriage, those preparing to assume the responsibilities of parenting, those beginning to work in various positions as well as many others in different new life experiences. May each of them experience the presence of the Spirit of God with gifts of clarity, peace, and steadfast courage.
Margaret Hoey