The life of Blessed Charles de Foucauld, the Universal Brother, is a testimony that can help us build the culture of Encounter and Universal Fraternity that Pope Francis speaks about in his encyclical Fratelli Tutti.
After 30 years of presence, in December 2019, the little sisters had to leave the little village of MABASELE, near Oicha because of the massacres which continue in that region of the East of DR Congo. This village is 35 km from Beni. Little sister Sifa had just spent a week in that region. Here is what she said:
It has been more than a week since I made my final vows. Today I am writing to tell you about that Saturday, October 17th. From the bottom of my heart I can tell you that I am happy. Happy about God’s “YES,” about mine, and about the Fraternity’s yes. Happy, too, for the joyful celebration we were able to have.
La pandémie Covid-19 touche le monde entier. Ceci a entraîné un changement brusque de la vie à cause du confinement. Nos sœurs racontent comment cela est vécu là où elles sont.
Love your neighbor, that through this love you can come to love God. The one kind of love does not go without the other; to grow in one is to grow in the other. How does one acquire the love of God? By practicing charity toward human beings.
In 1939, little sister Magdeleine de Jesus founded the Little Sisters of Jesus. A Woman of Faith Raised in a very Christian family, Magdeleine had the desire very early on to consecrate herself to God. But at 27, alone with her mother and in frail health, she found the doors to religious life closed to her. She waited in faith for a sign from God: Pushed by the love of God towards the littlest Fascinated by the love of God manifested in the infant Jesus born in a crib, Magdeleine felt pushed to give testimony to this love among society’s poorest and most excluded. Passionate about Unit. Magdeleine was marked by war and its consequences. She could not stand barriers or separation of any kind. “I will go like this to the ends of the world trying to say to everyone that we must love one another and leaving behind little sisters who will say it again after me. Hatred is too dreadful and we rub shoulders with it at every step.” From 1956 on she went every year to the communist bloc countries of Eastern Europe, closed off from the world by an “iron curtain”.