RELIGIOUS
MISSIONARY LIFE
Each day He invites me:
- to be with Him in prayer, listening to His
Word, knowing Him better;
- to bear fruit in loving service for others,
sent as His apostle in the World of today.
I give my whole life to HIM
because he called me, he gives me the strength to leave everything and FOLLOW HIM. Jesus called twelve Apostles
and they worked TOGETHER:
“He appointed
twelve to be with Him and to be sent out to preach.” (Mk. 3:14)
We, too are not alone but
in COMMUNITY. All over the
world, young women are hearing this same CALL
OF JESUS. This call unites us all as a Community.
Since the beginning of the Congregation, Our Founder, Cardinal Lavigerie,
wanted our Sisters to live in
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES
This way of living tries to be a
response of love and unity in a world where nations and races are divided by
fear and misunderstandings. It speaks of the reality of the Communion of Saints
professed by the Church, where “people from every race tribe, nation and
language” lives in the same Spirit with the same Father.
Because we come from different countries, each community embodies a variety of
ideas, backgrounds, and cultural values.
This “living” is NOT EASY, but it is mutually VERY ENRICHING. We thus seek to
live out what we proclaim to others: a KINGDOM where all are BROTHERS and
SISTERS in CHRIST.
“The family
spirit which should exist in our communities can be summed up in these two
words: To LOVE and
to HELP ONE ANOTHER.” (Mother Marie Salome)
SENT FOR A
MISSION
Our very name “MISSIONARY SISTERS OF OUR LADY OF AFRICA”
expresses our SPECIAL CALL and SERVICE within the CHURCH: We are RELIGIOUS MISSIONARIES for AFRICA under
the protection of OUR LADY OF AFRICA.
“Leave your own
country, your family and your father’s house, for the land I will show you.” (Gen12:1)
“Go, therefor,
make disciples of all nations… And know that I am with always.” (Mt 28:19-20)
These words of God are ours in a
special way. We do not satay in our home-country but we are SENT, through the Congregation, to another
country in Africa. We share the GOOD
NEWS of JESUS CHRIST with
those who do not know yet, or with the Local Churches.