Going against the tide

“No one can face life in isolation… We need a community that supports and helps us, in which we can help one another to keep looking ahead. How important it is to dream together…” (Fratelli Tutti,n.8) Once upon a time there were two FMM provinces … France-Belgium-Holland-Faroe on the one hand; United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta […]

EMBRACED BY YOUR WORD OF LOVE

I have always thought, Lord… You formed me as I am… You created me…you took me from where I had nothing. I did not exist and you created me with love, at your exact time. It was my special time for You. You begot me, you took me into your hands and I perceived you… […]

My life at the heart of the mission “Go, leave your country…” cf. Gen. 12: 1

I have just finished my initial formation in the novitiate and I have been sent on mission since October 2020 to Cameroon, the second country comprising the province of Congo Brazzaville-Cameroon, specifically in Kouoptamo. It was in this community that Sister Nilda Munis Da Costa did part of her missionary experience. In fact, her missionary […]

Living our charism in the middle of the Bolivian tropic

Introduction: We, the three sisters who were going to integrate the new community of Entre Ríos in the Bolivian tropics, left Chile in March and we reached our goal after five months. Two sisters were stranded in Cochabamba due to quarantine and prolonged procedures. But finally, on St. Clare’s Day, we saw the light and […]

Sharing love with the homeless

For the past five years in Montreal, in our parish, St. Francis of Assisi (Park Extension), the Franciscan Young Adult Group has been organizing the event of “Sharing love with the homeless”. Once a month on a Saturday, they prepare sandwiches and, together with other treats, share them with the homeless. It is a wonderful […]

Repentance : the Path of Transformation towards the Future

  … Real transformation starts from the willingness of the heart and of the self to change. It is comes with an attitude of readiness to learn new things that do not bind one to anything, an attitude that looks towards the future and prioritizes the common good, proclaims the Face of God’s Love to […]

The gratuitousness of the Lord

Life is a free gift from God out of love, just as the call of Christ is free and unconditional: it is he who takes the initiative to call. God’s call to me began with a question about the meaning of life. At that moment I felt something very strong towards the Lord; I wanted […]

The gift of God

Our contemplative–active life as Franciscan Missionaries of Mary is founded on our Charism. Offering myself for God’s Kingdom is what I understood as the best way to respond to his love. I have offered myself unreservedly to live this offering in my being faithfully and joyfully each day. This is not easy to live to […]

A Milestone In My Mission, Instability In The Province Of Cabo Delgado, Mozambique

We Sisters Teresa Balela Tshituka, Isabel da Costa Xavier and Elizabeth Arockiasamy, Franciscan Missionaries of Mary (FMM), share with you here the moments we live through in our mission in Montepuez, Cabo Delgado-Mozambique. Since October 5, 2017, the northern part of the province has suffered constant armed attacks by terrorist insurgents who vandalize villages and […]