Provincial's Message
Prayer of St. Francis
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
*and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life
Sister Roshan
Superior General - FSMA GENERALATEPoème de Mère Teresa – Faites-le quand même
Les gens sont souvent déraisonnables, illogiques et égocentriques ;
pardonne-leur quand même.
Si vous faites le bien, les gens peuvent vous accuser d’arrière-pensées égoïstes ;
fais le bien quand même.
Si vous réussissez, vous gagnerez de faux amis et de vrais ennemis ;
réussir quand même.
L'honnêteté et la franchise vous rendent vulnérable ;
soyez honnête et franc quand même.
Ce que vous passez des années à construire, quelqu’un pourrait le détruire du jour au lendemain ;
construire quand même.
Si vous trouvez la sérénité et le bonheur, il peut y avoir de la jalousie ;
sois heureux quand même.
Le bien que vous faites aujourd’hui, les gens l’oublieront souvent demain ;
fais le bien quand même.
Donnez au monde le meilleur de vous-même, et cela ne suffira peut-être jamais ;
donnez au monde le meilleur de toute façon.
Vous voyez, en dernière analyse, c’est entre vous et Dieu ;
de toute façon, ça n'a jamais été entre toi et eux.
Mother Teresa Poem – Do It Anyway
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
forgive them anyway.
If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
succeed anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable;
be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, there may be jealousy;
be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
give the world the best you’ve got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
it was never between you and them anyway.
Sister Annie Dez
Province Head - France ProvinceSt Thomas More
O Lord, give us a mind that is humble, quiet, peaceable, patient and charitable, and a taste of your Holy Spirit in all our thoughts, words, and deeds. O Lord, give us a lively faith, a firm hope, a fervent charity, a love of you. Take from us all lukewarmness in meditation and all dullness in prayer. Give us fervour and delight in thinking of you, your grace, and your tender compassion toward us. Give us, good Lord, the grace to work for the things we pray for. Amen.
Sister Juliette
Province Head - WickhamThe Prayer before the Crucifix at San Damiano
Most High, glorious God,
enlighten the darkness of my heart
and give me true faith,
certain hope and perfect charity,
sense and knowledge,
Lord, that I may carry out
Your holy and true command.
Sister Elsa
Province Head - Mhow ProvinceTake, Lord, and
receive all my liberty,
my memory, my understanding,
and my entire will,
All I have and call my own.
You have given all to me.
To you, Lord, I return it.
Everything is yours;
do with it what you will.
Give me only your love
and your grace,
that is enough for me.
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
Sister Doris
Province Head - Jaipur ProvinceCome, Holy Spirit
and fill my heart with Your gifts.
Let my love be true
and my charity be generous.
Help me in all my needs,
and grant me knowledge
to do what is right.
Advise me in my doubts,
strengthen me in my weakness,
protect me when I am tempted
and console me when I am afraid.
Graciously hear me, O Holy Spirit,
and pour Your light
into my heart, mind and soul.
Help me to live a holy life
and grow in goodness and peace.
Amen
Sister Desta
Regional Head - Ethiopian RegionOur Lady of Aparecida
Lady Aparecida, a son of yours who belongs to you unreservedly "totus tuus" called by the mysterious plan of Providence to be the Vicar of your Son on earth, wishes to address you at this moment. He recalls with emotion, because of the brown color of this image of yours, another image of yours, the Black Virgin of Jasna Gora. Mother of God and our Mother, protect the Church, the Pope, the bishops, the priests and all the faithful people; welcome under your protecting mantle men and women religious, families, children, young people, and their educations. Health of the sick and Consoler of the afflicted, comfort those who are suffering in body and soul; be the light of those who are seeking Christ, the Redeemer of all; show all people that you are the Mother of our confidence. Queen of Peace and Mirror of Justice, obtain peace for the world, ensure that Brazil and all countries may have lasting peace, that we will always live together as brothers and sisters and as children of God. Our Lady Aparecida, bless all your sons and daughters who pray and sing to you here and elsewhere.
Amen.
Sister Vibha
Regional Head - Brazil RegionO Most Blessed and Sweet Virgin Mary
By St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274)
Doctor of the Church
O most blessed
and sweet Virgin Mary,
Mother of God,
filled with all tenderness,
Daughter of the most high King,
Lady of the Angels,
Mother of all the faithful.
On this day
and all the days of my life,
I entrust to your merciful heart,
my body and my soul,
all my acts, thoughts, choices,
desires, words, deeds,
my entire life and death,
So that, with your assistance,
all may be ordered to the good
according to the will
of your beloved Son,
our Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen
