Jesus Caritas

Dear friends, I was struck recently by a phrase I read about the beatitudes: how Jesus calls us “blessed” right in the “basement of our grief.”  read more »

Peacock butterflyCatharine shares about how she lives in lockdown from her 13th storey flat in Hackney.  read more »

Canh shares her reflections on her need to trust in God and in his love for us especially when we are 'little' in his hand.  read more »

emerging-daffodilsReflection on how God’s creative energy cannot be tied down especially in a lockdown!  read more »

Kathy with a Co-workerLittle sister Kathleen lives in England. She has been working at the Crown Hotel in "Wells-next-the-Sea," Norfolk, for a couple of years, and she shared the following last Christmas:  read more »

Talk given at the Methodist Church of Edmonton in a series of Talks on bringing the Bible alive in our daily life.  read more »

A little sister from England, Catharine, writes about how she was touched by the life and witness of Little sister Gertrud the first and only Little sister from Papua New Guinea who died on the 20th October 2020.  read more »

Emiko at Charity shopSometimes we use the word "pearls" for the stories we tell each other of meeting God in our daily experiences. In the course of our lives as Little Sisters we have collected a vast treasure house full of such pre¬cious gems. Here are three from our sisters in northern Ireland: 1-Who Welcomes Whom? I am Emiko, a Little Sister from Japan who has lived in our com¬munity near the town of Downpatrick for over ten years.  read more »

Egyptian Christians have been tried by incidents large and small of violence against their communities, which make up 15-18% of the country's population. These included the recent bombings of churches in Cairo and Alexandria. The Little Sisters of Daher, Cairo, shared about their life there, their work, their experience of these tragedies, and their quest to witness to the love of Jesus in the midst of it all:  read more »

Emily made her first vows on May 8, 2017. She had most recently been working at a local grocery store, and she shares experience.  read more »