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The Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions (RNDM) Canada are part of an international community of Catholic Sisters who live and work in twenty countries around the world. In Canada, we principally reside and work in the provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan. 

In each country, the Sisters are responsive to the needs of the people and region. As educators, health professionals and social workers, we view our commitments through multiple lens: 

  • a lens of earth
  • of reconciliation with Indigenous persons
  • of refugees’ safety / well-being
  • and of the full flourishing of women

Our growing awareness of earth as one community of life focuses our work for today and for the future!

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The Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions:
From Ultramontane Origins to a New Cosmology

By Rosa Bruno-Jofre · 2019

This book guides the reader through the journey taken by the Canadian Province of Our Lady of the Missions (RNDM), from their establishment in Manitoba, Canada, in 1898, until 2008, when the congregation as a whole redefined its mission and vision.

This vision was placed within the framework of eco-spirituality and inserted in a new cosmology that included the celebration of womanness and social justice.
 

Using archival research, conducted in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sturry, England, and Rome as well as oral interviews with RNDM sisters, this book deals with questions regarding the work of sisters in schools and the part they played in the educational state in formation.

The details of the congregation’s work in schools show how the sisters’ educational work was related to the social characteristics of the communities (e.g., those of French Canadian settlers, British immigrants, the Métis population, and continental European immigrants), first in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, and later on in Ontario and Quebec.

Rosa Bruno-Jofré argues that the congregation’s work was part of a major attempt on the part of the Church to carve a space for itself in the educational state in formation. The Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions examines the impact of Vatican II in the 1960s, and into the 2000s, as well as the dismantling of neo-scholasticism, and the process of secularization of consciousness in society at large. The emerging issues led the congregation and the province to examine their individual and collective identity at the intersection of feminist theology, eco-spirituality, and a critique of western cosmology. 

Source: Publisher (University of Toronto Press)

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Synodal Discusssion on Zoom with Sr. Elizabeth Davis (RSM), one of 54 women voting members at the historic “Synod on Synodality” at the Vatican from October 4-29, 2023.

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We “accompanied in solidarity” a delegation of Canadians going to the long anticipated Synod which began in Rome on October 4th, by holding a prayer service at the grave of Cardinal Flahiff.

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Aligned with the 2023 
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the members of St Kateri Tekakwitha parish in Winnipeg, celebrated the values of truth and reconciliation.

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Eco-Spirituality

For hundreds of years, those who have been interested in the spiritual life have found that exposure to the beauty of the Earth is a way to make God powerfully present. In recent times, many persons of faith have become interested in the ecological movement and a new awareness of the transcendence of the Cosmos. 

Called to Eternal Life

March 26, 1935 - November 27, 2023

Cécile was born into a proud French-Canadian family, on March 26, 1935, as snow thawed on the prairie fields of St. Joseph MB.

The timing of her birth, around the Spring equinox, may account for the deep attraction Cécile had with creation – from the smallest insects, and most delicate flowers, to the magnificence of stars, and the grace of birds in flight. Cécile experienced the healing power of God in a unique way in creation.

August 2, 1947 - November 14, 2023

Patricia loved Peru and Peruvians from the beginning. She became fluent in Spanish and did pastoral and catechetical work.

She was particularly involved with Family Catechesis, which served in the formation of Basic Christian Communities (BCC).

In this process, Patricia’s own spiritual life also deepened. She found joy in her work in several Peruvian cities where RNDMs served: Lima, Ilo, Candarave, and Arequipa.

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January 17, 2024

Synodal Discusssion with Sr. Elizabeth Davis (RSM), one of 54 women voting members at the historic “Synod on Synodality” at the Vatican from October 4-29, 2023.

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Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions

393 Gaboury Place
Winnipeg, MB 
Canada 
R2H 0L5

Phone: (204) 786-6051 
Fax: (204) 691-0640

canrndm@shaw.ca