Good Shepherd Sisters in the Philippine Province will gather in Maryridge, Tagaytay for sessions on "Gathering the Hundredfold: A Homecoming" as a preparation for the 2012 Centennial. The apostolic and contemplative sisters have signed up for the activity that will be conducted in four sessions.
Sr. Susan Chia RGS, current apostolic link councillor to the
The four sessions will be held November 20-23, November 25-28, November 30-Deccember 3 and December 5-8, 2010. Sisters from various parts of the country are coming for the occasion.
Sr. Susan said that the sessions will be a time: To Return, To Recall, To Rest, To Reclaim, To Release.
Good Shepherd Sisters will celebrate 100 years of Good Shepherd presence in the Philippines in 2012. The first Irish Good Shepherd missionaries came to the Philippines on October 4, 1912 upon the invitation of Monsignor Joseph Petrelli, archbishop of Lipa. The community was under the Motherhouse in Angers, France and so were the other foundations and later communities in the Philippines became part of the Los Angeles province.
On December 3, 1960, the Philippines was established as a province.
This is the time
To Return
A Time of Remembering and Thanksgiving, the gift of each other, the labor and blessings of Good Shepherd Mission
To Recall
A Time to share our stories of our journey of Shepherding in an experiential way
To Rest
Time to be with each other, to have conversations as we embrace and reconcile
To Reclaim
Our being one as Apostolic and Contemplative Good Shepherd, a time to build relationships, to integrate as we call forth each other in transformation to be whole and holy
To Release
A Time to enable each other to be a life-giving presence of compassion and
reconciliation, the sign of our commitment and solidarity as Shepherds of today.