The RNDM Congregational Chapter of 2008 was a particular moment of grace, when the Sisters from the twenty countries where the RNDMs live and serve made a collective commitment to diminishing the distress of earth, and to deepening their sense of earth’s grandeur and wisdom. With a growing understanding of humans’ place within the community of life, they experienced themselves as “being called home to our place within the earth community”, and to participating in the “Great Work” of our time.  Subsequent General Chapters in 2014 and 2020 affirmed that direction, and the Sisters have sought local ways of engaging this critical work.

For some years, our province has sought to live from the insight that we are living the “grace and gift of fewness”, and we desire to live that grace as creatively and as intentionally as possible. We believe it is that grace and gift that led us to propose a new initiative in Canada, in response to the Truth and Reconciliation report released in 2015. We believe that the historical watershed at which Canada stands in its relationship with Indigenous persons is a strong “sign of the times” and calls for RNDM participation. Something new is alive in our province and in ourselves.