Dear Sisters and Friends As the end of 2024 approaches we reflect back on the wonderful blessings of this year and look forward in hope to the JUBILEE YEAR of 2025. ‘Joy springs from a grateful heart’ says Pope Francis. Looking back through the year, we have received many blessings through you: our mission partners, […]
Friday 15 November around 160 past pupils (including Sr Colleen King-Turner and Sr Anna Maria Persico) and two past teachers (Sr Valerie Lawson, Sr Sarah Greenless) attended the reunion for Sacred Heart (1892-1971) and Redwood (1971-1982) College, gathered at the Granary, (top two floors of the Convent) Founders Heritage Park, Nelson. The reunion began on […]
What a journey! Tough, high, steep, long and at times, simply beautiful. This pilgrimage had it all for me. Digging deep mentally, emotionally, spiritually and physically were all facets of this amazing 400kms, 25 days of pilgrimage. My friends, Peter and Betty Ann Kamp and I walked the Way of St Francis of Assisi in […]
Euphrasie School started with the inspiration of our Foundress Euphrasie Barbier who had a deep passion for education and desire to uplift the marginalized people. The school was began officially in January 2020 with in seventeen pupils in preprimary to class 1. This was a joyful start, and parents hope that it will continue to […]
Our Lady Queen of the Missions School Kolkata, has a charity school for the girl children who live along the railway tracks. Their parents are poor and have no access to basic facilities like sanitation or clean water. In their struggle to survive, educating their daughters is not their priority. The Sisters encourage them to […]
Hogar Belen is a community of the RNDM sisters caring for abandoned and handicapped children. These children live with the Sisters in the community. The centre provides a shelter, assistance and physiotherapy services for the handicapped children and those abandoned by their families. Since the spreading of the COVID-19 pandemic, RNDM sisters are looking at […]
Bagerhat is one the of coastal district areas of Bangladesh that was hit by the recent Cyclone Amphan. RNDM sisters serve in a fishing village of this area where 180 families, that is about 700 people, lost all their lands and fishponds due to the Cyclone. This happened during the COVID-19 lockdown adding more sufferings […]
Our Lady of the Missions. Our title describes our spirituality which is both Trinitarian and Marian.
The name Euphrasie Barbier chose for her Congregation is, doubtless, the most obvious proof of the fundamental Trinitarian orientation of her own life and that of the new religious family she founded. […]
Adèle-Euphrasie Barbier, known in religious life as Marie du Coeur de Jésus, was born on 4th January 1829, in Caen, France. The family had a strong faith and her parents instilled into their young family the values of honesty and hard work. […]
