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 A hundred and fifty years ago, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to a very poor young girl : Bernadette. To celebrate this Jubilee, the Secours Catholique organised, on 7-14 August 2008, a pilgrimage that brought to Lourdes 350 people from 23 nationalities together with pastoral agents and a number of partners : delegates from ATD Fourth World and the Sappel, from Jean (...) (More...) 
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 The photo-album shows views of those "In the summertime". Click on : Actuality. Click on photo-album. There are 9 pictures. Click once on each of them to have it (...) (More...)
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 After days of severe thunderstorms, the morning of the annual DHS Family picnic in Putnam, Connecticut dawned clear and bright and dry. It was a day of good fun, good food, good music, and good company in celebration of our good God. The day began in the Provincial House chapel for liturgy then moved outdoors to the screened pavilion. Food and laughter were shared. (...) (More...)
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 This week, we are especially in communion with Isabelle Cracco who will make her first commitment in the Congregation on Saturday 23 August in France. Called to freedom… " I run straight ahead toward the goal ….” Ph 3 : 14 We take part in her joy and that of the whole province of (...) (More...)
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 “Why should this great thing happen to me?...” (Lk. 1:43) to be a delegate of the diocese of Saint-Brieuc taking part in the international Eucharistic Congress in Quebec, from the 15th to the 22nd of June 2008! We were welcomed in the parish of St. Yves-St. Louis, Quebec during ten days: an incredibly warm hospitality! Our guests offered us (...) (More...)
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 Every year, the eleventh of February is a great day in Cameroon : it is the National Youth Day ! All over the country, in every big city and small village, all the pupils and students dressed in a uniform specific to their schools or colleges file past the local civic even religious authorities, present in the stand of a stadium. They perform all sorts of ensemble movements in front of (...) (More...)
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 A few months ago, I joined a wonderful group called “mano à mano” whose main objective is to assist adolescent mothers. The director of the group with whom I visit these young mothers knows much about these difficult situations in Chile and how to cope with them. Lately we visited five of these young women : teenage mothers or pregnant teenagers : the youngest was fourteen. Yesterday I (...) (More...)
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 In a simple yet meaningful ceremony the Daughters of the Holy Spirit in the Putnam Province anointed 3 candidates as a symbol that they are now ready to live the Mission of the Daughters of the Holy Spirit and move one step closer to pronouncing their Covenant which will commit them to following more closely the 300 year old tradition of foundress Marie Balavenne in (...) (More...)
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 Paula Jean Despathy, DHS, having served as teacher, social and pastoral worker, missionary to Nigeria, Provincial House Coordinator and Provincial Team member was elected by the Congreation’s General Chapter to a six year term as General Councilor. She joins 4 other colleagues from France and Ireland to form the General Team for the duration. Paula will live in Rennes, (...) (More...)
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 Recently, there DHS Family in North and South America has deepened the bonds between the two units. In June, members of the DHS family in the US had the unexpected joy of welcoming Sr. Isabel Larrondo Donoso when she accompanied Sr. Marie Wilfred Archambault home from Chile. Sr. Isabel met, greeted, hugged, and shared faith filled emotions, ideals, meals, outings and (...) (More...)
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 We all know that not everyone is on holiday. In France, though, people usually break off from work in the summer so as to restore their strength and be re-invigorated. We want to tell you about one of those refreshing moments that made us a lot of good. We had been invited to celebrate Hélène's thirtieth birthday. Hélène is a young woman with Down's syndrome. When we were at Concarneau, we (...) (More...)
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 "I, the Undersigned, René François de Gouyon de Thaumatz, ex-naval officer and knight of St Louis, living at the manor-house of Thaumatz, district of Plélan-le-Petit, department of the Côtes du Nord, having nothing more at heart but to bring relief to the poor, assistance to the needy, and provide a sound Christian education to the youth... bequeath to the town of (...) (More...)
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 "Do not look forward in fear to the changes in life. Rather look to them with full hope that as they arrive, God, whose very own you are will lead you safely through all things. And when you cannot stand, God will carry you in his arms." Francois de Sales These were the words of encouragement that Sister Norma Bourdon quoted this week as members of the DHS (...) (More...)
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 While most of us think of “retirement” as a time to sit back, relax and let someone else get involved or do the job, the Sisters in retirement at the Provincial House of the Daughters of the Holy Spirit in Putnam are always looking for ways to continue to live out their mission and respond to the calls they themselves help to set as guidelines for the USA Province. It was (...) (More...)
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 Since April 28, the parish halls of our church at Nanterre had been occupied by “the Collective of undocumented immigrants” of the Paris region. The parishioners and ourselves had been taken aback by that intrusion, all the more so since, ten years ago, the members of the same Collective had already occupied the same premises during sixteen months. Were we going to live (More...)
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 At Brest, the sisters, associates and consecrated seculars used to come together to celebrate the great events of the Congregation. In the dynamic of the Tercentenary, we wondered what we could do to enable the Family to grow and develop. A core group, constituted of four sisters, an associate and a consecrated secular was appointed to see what could be done. (...) (More...)
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 In the USA, The DHS have taken part in several events sponsored by the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NARCAT). The latest project involved having a banner placed on the front of the Provincial house so it could be seen from the street. The banner reads: “Daughters of the Holy Spirit say torture is wrong”. (More...)
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