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SHARING OUR SACRED STORIES

The sisters of the USA Province celebrated the opening of our Centennial Celebrations, July 11- 14, 2008 at St. Bonaventure’s University, Olean, NY. We chose this site as it is our first place of mission in the USA. Our foundress, Mother Immaculata Tombrock, spent the last 16 years of her life there. From this site, new missions have been taken on and Sisters have been missioned.

The San Damiano Cross was painted in the style of icons. Icons have also been called "meeting places of the divine and the human". At our Centennial Celebration, we used this Franciscan cross and added our own pictures depicting our history. In our own history and stories, God's presence and guidance shows through. One of the songs we sang expressed this: I am with you on the journey, and I will never leave you I am with you on the journey, always with you (Kathy Sherman, CSJ)

Pilgrimage to Our Sacred Sites

Our journey took us also on a Pilgrimage to our places of mission in the USA and Bolivia. Posters with pictures of these sites were carried. A booklet with reflections on each of these sites was used to accompany  our prayer.

Snapshots

For our celebration, we invited our Sisters from the other provinces of the congregation.

Enjoy some of the snapshots:

Sisters from Namibia	Sisters from Brazil
Sisters from the USA	Namibian and Brazilian Sisters presenting the Gospel Book
Sisters from Taiwan and China	Discussion
Songfest	Singing
Chinese songs	Brazilian songs
German songs	Group sharing

....and then it was time to go home again...