Eighteen
(18) Good Shepherd Sisters working in
Meeting. The July 29-30 activity is the 30th Mindanao Cluster
Meeting.
Cecilia Torres RGS, province leader, participates in the meeting.
31, the sisters will also celebrate the birth anniversary of St. Mary Euphrasia,
foundress of the Good Shepherd
congregation. Born on July 31, 1796 in
Virginie Pelletier took the religious name of Mary of St. Euphrasia when she
entered the convent. She was canonized saint on May 2, 1940.
sisters are from the five apostolic communities, namely Good Shepherd in
Pagadian, Kalilid, Iligan and Cagayan de Oro and one contemplative community, Butuan
Local leaders in Mindanao, Sr. Regina Pil - CDO, Sr. Diane Cabasagan -Davao, Sr. Edna Fuentes - Iligan, Sr. Alice Andres- Pagadian, Sr. Dinah Egpalina - CGS Butuan and Sr. Pilar Quemada - Kalilid and a member of the Province Leadership Team, planned and organized the meeting.
During
the echo, the topics presented during the Local Leaders’ Meeting are shared to
the sisters in the communities. The theme of the May 24-27 Local Leaders’
Meeting was, “Weaving New Pathways in Leadership,”
topics that are presented during the echo are St. Mary Euphrasia and the
Spirituality of Governance, reports of Ministry Team, SMEIDFI, MARTA,
Formation, and Centennial Committee.
conversation with Sr. Susan Chia, link apostolic councilor of the
Congregational Leadership Team to the
is also part of the echo. She shared on the 2009 Congregational threads that
will guide the Good Shepherd Sisters in living out our mission during the next
five years. It is already a year since the 29th Congregational
Chapter was held in
During
the opening liturgy for the Mindanao
cluster, the sisters affirmed that it is in God’s name that they gather and
celebrate., “ In God’s presence, let us welcome each other to this day of our
togetherness, a moment of sharing, a moment of enriching one another. Here in this sacred space, we know ourselves
to be connected, touching and strengthening each other.”
Good
Shepherd Sisters in
ministries, including pastoral work and in programs for indigenous peoples, farmers,
work for migrants and their families, residential care, work with urban and
rural poor and in involvement in diocesan programs for women. The contemplative
community are one with the apostolic sisters in praying for the various
concerns in the ministry.
Other echoes of the 2010 Local Leaders
Meeting were held during the past months: NCR, Euphrasian Community, Heart of
Mary Villa, Tahanan, Welcome House/Malate, St. Bridget School- Quezon City,
GSC, the Provincialate and the Novitiate. June 12, Rosary Hall, QC.; Batangas/Cavite,
Bukid Kabataan. June 13, Maryridge, Tagaytay City; Bicol Cluster, June 19, Buhi,
Camarines Sur- Naga Community,
Shepherd Home in Legazpi and Contemplatives of the Good Shepherd in Virac; Northern Luzon, Baguio
and Isabela. June 22-23,
RGS-CGS, July 5,