On Saturday March 14, 2020, Sr. Maribel Rocio Mamani Cutipa MFIC professed her final vows in Coroico, Bolivia. The theme of the day was: “Here I am Lord in order to Do Your Will!”

The Church was beautifully decorated and all was in readiness for Mass celebrated by Bishop Juan Vargas . Bishop Juan [ ... ]

During Christmas time, Sister Pauline and Sister Danielle visited and presented a gift to Mother Pilar Abbess of San Lorenzo, Poor Clare Monastery, the community from which Elizabeth Hayes took the two Bentivoglio sisters, Magdalena and Constanza to New York.

December 6

After a long but uneventful trip to La Paz from Boston, my sister Kathy and I arrived in Coroico where festivities celebrating fifty years of  the life and mission of our sisters in Bolivia were about to begin. More than 50 catechists from the mountain villages that surround the parish [ ... ]

SPECIAL CELEBRATIONS
Missionary Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception

70 years of presence in Papua New Guinea

16 September 1949 – 16 September 2019


PART 1
A journey to an unknown land called
“The Land of the Unexpected”

Seventy years ago, on Wednesday 30th August 1949 four Sisters, [ ... ]

October visit to Juba and Yambio by Sr Pauline and Sr Rosella

SR. HELEN NEINI

Helen has ministered in Juba and Yambio for 9 years. Currently she is teaching Grade 6B at St. Mary’s Catholic Primary School located in the Diocese of Yambio.   St. Mary’s has 26 teachers and 1,264 students. Sometimes [ ... ]

POST-SYNODAL APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION

QUERIDA AMAZONIA

OF THE HOLY FATHER
FRANCIS

TO THE PEOPLE OF GOD
AND TO ALL PERSONS OF GOOD WILL

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1. The beloved Amazon region stands before the world in all its splendour, its drama and its mystery. God granted us the grace of focusing on that region during [ ... ]

On January 9th and 10th 2020 Sister Danielle participated in the Annual ROME CONSTELLATION’S ASSEMBLY of UISG International Union of Superiors General.

In communion with the Church, that is living intensely the extraordinary Missionary Month and the Synod of Amazonia, the Constellation [ ... ]

Missionary Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception

Celebrating 70 years of God’s Goodness and presence

in Papua New Guinea

The 16th of September 2019, a special day to remember with gratitude and joyful praise for God’s goodness reflected in the lives of the Missionary Franciscan Sisters [ ... ]

APOSTOLIC LETTER

ADMIRABILE SIGNUM

OF THE HOLY FATHER
FRANCIS
ON THE MEANING AND IMPORTANCE
OF THE NATIVITY SCENE

1. The enchanting image of the Christmas crèche, so dear to the Christian people, never ceases to arouse amazement and wonder. The depiction of Jesus’ birth is itself a simple and joyful [ ... ]

Wednesday 27th of November 2019, Solidarity with South Sudan held its Annual General Meeting in Rome at the Christian Brothers. Sister Pauline Robinson and Sister Danielle Julien, outgoing Solidarity Vice-President, participated in the Meeting.

Solidarity with South Sudan is a miracle: despite an [ ... ]