RSCJ News

RSCJ Sisters Prepare for Chapter

Hands in prayer

During past months, each of our districts and provinces around the world have been holding their respective Chapters in preparation for the coming General Chapter to be held near Rome, in August 2024. In preparation for this Chapter RSCJ have been fully involved in ongoing conversations sharing thoughts, ideas, hopes and desires around ways in which will help to organise ourselves and determine our pathways into the future. Sr Barbara Dawson, Superior General and her Team will finish their 8-year mandate in August. The next Superior General will be nominated by delegates at the Chapter.We deeply appreciate your support and prayer during this pivotal moment in the history of the

Sr Annett’s Cosmic Christ

Painting of the Cosmic Christ by Sr Annett Hanrahan

In this reflection for the USA Canada Province’s First Friday Reflection, our own Sr Annett Hanrahan discusses her painting of the Cosmic Christ: “I live in the South Pacific, in New Zealand, which is a multi-cultural country, including Maori, Polynesian, Pakeha, and peoples from all parts of Asia. I could not find any images that spoke to me or to any of us of a powerful, loving God, with an all-embracing, all-forgiving love that we as human beings can open to and understand in our very humanness. I wanted to probe the incarnational reality of God in Christ and in all of creation in a language that might have some