General conference – Thursday, June 19

The fourth day of the General Conference, led in prayer by Maria Province, was spent in thanksgiving for the process of transformation that has begun within the Congregation, but also for the openness, curiosity, and questioning that reflect the interest of our sisters across the Provinces and Regions in the new model of governance that is being developed.

The General Conference’s image of this process is that of a train already in motion, carrying not only the hope of structural transformation but even more so, the promise of a new way of looking at and living our charism, spirituality, and mission, for the future of our Congregation.

The day was also punctuated, on the one hand, by sharing about the meeting of the Social Justice Action Network and, on the other, by exchanges on the awakening sparked by last August’s forum, as well as on the whole process of reflection around discrimination and decolonization. We were grateful to Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe Region for hosting the Social Justice Action Network. Grateful, also, for the quality of the sharing and concrete experiences, linked to the realities of migration and migrants.

We ended the day with the conviction that the processes begun on the transformation-new governance model, as well as that of decolonization and discrimination, are all trains already well underway, continuing their journey in the hearts and respective realities of each of our sisters and associates, as well as our Provinces and Regions.

Sr Mekoulou Me-Zambo Lucie

Notre-Dame-des-Apôtres Region