by Jean Schneeberger | Jun 17, 2022 | Justice and solidarity
“We must hear the cry of the poor and make it our own….” This is one of the Orientations of our recent General Chapter. So when the Mayor of Le Conquet – a town in Finistère, Brittany, France – came to ask us to welcome a Ukrainian family...
by Jean Schneeberger | Jun 17, 2022 | Justice and solidarity
How do you make a young girl who is in the process of growing up and seeking to develop outside her family environment happy? How can we make her hope for a better future when she has not had the chance, in this world today, to finish primary school? The Centre de...
by Jean Schneeberger | Jun 15, 2022 | Chapter 2021
On Sunday morning, 15 August 2021, the Chapter delegates met one last time to confirm the minutes of the deliberations. Just before we met in our Units to plan how we would communicate the chosen Orientations. Sister Ann Almodovar, our new Superior General, expressed...
by Jean Schneeberger | Jun 15, 2022 | Chapter 2021
The 2021 General Chapter of the Daughters of the Holy Spirit continued its discernment to elect four General Councillors. The four General Councillors currently serving are: Sister Olga KIENDREBEOGO (Burkina Faso) Sister Jeannine LEGERE (USA) Sister Judith MBOUNGHOUL...
by admin1683 | Jun 6, 2022 | Our projects
Construction of a chicken coop in Bondigui The community of the Daughters of the Holy Spirit was established in Bondigui, in the Parish of St. John the Evangelist in Phariyago, in 2006. Bondigui is a village with a majority of animists. To communicate with their god,...
by admin1683 | Jun 6, 2022 | Justice and solidarity
I was touched by this phrase from the Gospel of Cana: “They have no more wine”, during my annual retreat at the end of 2020, and I saw those people who could not go to church on Sunday because of a disability: they have no more BREAD! With the permission...
by Jean Schneeberger | May 23, 2022 | Spiritual Family
On 7th May 2022, the Daughters of the Holy Spirit of the Vice-Province of Nigeria celebrated the final vows of Sisters: Mercy Aghahowa and Rita Oye and the silver jubilee of religious profession of Sisters: Cyrina Chikwe and Marykate Anni. During the vigil prayer,...
by Jean Schneeberger | May 23, 2022 | Spiritual Family
I am a “Consecrated Lay Daughter of the Holy Spirit”. After having lived my professional life in Brest, a city in Brittany, France, I have been retired for 4 years in a village in Plougastel-Daoulas -near Brest-. A small studio, but a large garden. A very...
by Jean Schneeberger | May 23, 2022 | Justice and solidarity
In August 2021, during our General Chapter in France -Ile-Blanche-, in the exchanges with Sister Revault on my mission in Cameroon, I told her about my work with the displaced in the field of health and nutrition, of what I felt about the children who are often...
