Continuing Formation Schedule

The Continuing Formation Team of the Good Shepherd Sisters  is inviting Good shepherd sisters and mission partners so a “Forging Hope” Centennial Lenten Conference, ““In Between Memory and Hope, ” on Friday March 8, 2013, 9:30 a.m.to 11:30 a.m. at the Rosary Hall, Good Shepherd Community in Quezon City.

The session, about remembering the promise of Vatican II  and rediscovering hope in the New Evangelization, will be presented by Fr. Wilfredo Dulay of the Missionaries of Jesus (MJ).

This Lenten conference wants to celebrate the dangerous memory of the Second Vatican Council by attempting to rekindle the hope in the hearts of the faithful for a new church model mirroring faithfully what God’s ultimate Prophet began in Galilee some two thousand years ago.

Notwithstanding the ambivalence that so far characterized the hierarchy’s

efforts to commemorate the 50^th year of Vatican II, the challenges posed by the New Evangelization that Benedict XVI inaugurated could open up avenues of renewed creativity for the modern followers of the Crucified and Risen Lord.

RSVP Continuing Formation  

Sr. Patricia on or before March 4.

“More Noble in Charity”
Glimpses on the Life and Spirit of  Blessed Maria Droste

The canonization of Bl. Maria Droste was discussed in several General Chapters with no strong support to go forward. After the 1991 General Chapter, Sr. Liliane Tauvette visited Portugal and encouraged the sisters and friends to make Maria Droste known. Today after twenty-two years the impact of her life is widely known.

 There was an overwhelming  experience of the Congregational Leadership Team at the 150^th anniversary of the birth of Blessed Maria in Porto, Portugal last September 15, 2012.

The request of Bishop Clemente and the faith of the people deeply committed to the message of God’s love which Maria Droste exemplifies for them were inspiring.

The congregation will reconsider Bl. Maria Droste’s canonization. We are invited to know her more and the process of canonization, The message of God’s love which Maria Droste exemplifies was not for the Congregation only but for the world. It is timely for all ages. This great love of God for us and all of humanity continually deepens as our understanding evolves and grows with all of God’s creation.

                           - From the CLT letter Rome, 30^th 2012 September                                     
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