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Feast of Christ the King
31 October 1926 - Mother Christine, Sr Désirée, Sr Marie |
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XVI - November
2006 |
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“We began our
new life at the time when the Church inaugurated the feast
of Christ the King.
During the first years, our exercises of piety were done all
together, and night adoration was at a fixed time for everyone,
from 11pm to midnight. So for many hours there was no one
in the chapel. After we were installed at ‘The Solitude’,
this word was heard: ‘Do not leave me alone’.
(…) I obtained permission to arrange the timetables
in such a way that there were enough times of silent adoration
to fill the intervals in between the offices we had in common.
(…)
It is true that we have had many trials since then, but we
must try to please the One with us who doesn’t like
to be ‘left alone.”
Mother Christine : Origin of the contemplative
Branch
« May God be loved, adored, served,
by all, especially by us and by Israel. »
(M.Christine) |
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Mother
Christine: A few thoughts on what God is asking of us : |
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| For now
God before everything which is not Him.
When it is time to go to the Chapel, go to the Chapel,
except in an emergency, what is not urgent comes afterwards,
‘Charity must be in the right order for us.’
Jesus is our first neighbour. |
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For the future
Confidence.
Let us pray and act in order to do the best possible;
to want absolute perfection would be illusory.
Let us try to please God.
To preserve exquisite charity, liberty of spirit, simplicity.” |
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A charcoal drawing by Sr Marie François,
from a photograph of Mother Christine |
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26 november
2006 Our communities
Grandbourg 1931
Lourdes/Bartrès 1951 & Bayonne 2001
Cutitiba 1958
Ein Karem 1971
Divina Pastora 2001
Iasi 2006
« Our spirituality as contemplative Sisters of Sion
is rooted in the revelation of God’s plan: God is
“faithful (to his) love for the Jewish people and
to the promises he revealed to the patriarchs and prophets
of Israel for all humanity” (Const. art. 13).
… Our attachment to Christ leads us to a loving adherence
to God’s plan as it is revealed in Sacred Scripture
and realized in history.
…Just as the night of Passover is a night of watchfulness
(Ex 12:42), so the memorial character of the Eucharist,
which is the source and summit of our life, calls forth
our watchfulness: “Don’t leave me alone”
is what Mother Christine understood. We want our entire
life to become Eucharist. United with Christ in his life,
his death and his resurrection, we are in solidarity with
humanity in its clamour for life. “Hoping against
all hope”, we abide in praise and intercession…
»
 (Chapter
of the contemplatives sisters 2004)
What will the Holy Spirit be asking of us in the future
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We will try to be listening, in order to hear, as Mother
Christine did in her time.
Our eyes fixed on God's plan, we will try to follow the
path along which he is leading us, as contemplatives sisters
of Our Lady of Sion.
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