Meeting of the Commission to update the Constitutions
In the Generalate, on 31st January 2017, a further meeting was held of the Commission to update the Constitutions, this time a new member, Sr. Sandra Maira Pires was there as well. The sisters were facing a very extensive...[more]
Meeting of the Commission of the Jubilee-year
"Be merciful as God's Providence!" The meeting of the Commission of the Jubilee year of mercy on January 30 was the first of several meetings, which will take place with regard to the common way of our international...[more]
Golden Jubilee of Sister Lucia Weiler
2017 – jubilee-year of the congregation: 175 years under the guidance of God's Providence. Reason for Thanksgiving! 2017 - also a jubilee-year of many sisters. Among them is Sister Lucia Weiler, who celebrated her Golden Jubilee....[more]
Meeting of the European Coordination Teams
On 12th January 2017, a meeting of the general coordination with the coordination teams of the German province and the Dutch community took place at the Generalate. The day was under the theme "Embracing the future with hope...[more]
Meeting of the Province ‘Mother of Providence’
From 27-29 December 2016, the province ‘Mother of Providence’ in Lajeado (Brazil) conducted a meeting with representatives from each community. These were three intensive days of prayer, sharing, reflection and of a common...[more]
Jubilee-Sisters of Indonesia in 2016
In the year 2016, the Indonesian Province had twelve sisters that could celebrate a jubilee- anniversary: Sr. Alberta and Sr. Marcella celebrated 65 years of religious life; Sr. Regina and Sr. Yohani celebrated 60 years; Sr....[more]
"If one dreams alone, it is just a dream…
... If many dream together, then it is the beginning of a new reality.“This sentence, often used by DOM Hélder Câmara, can also be applied to our history. In our Constitutions we read about the foundation of the Congregation of...[more]
Meeting of the Project-group „Culture of Vocation“
In the year 2016, the Sisters Rosiléa and Maristela took over the responsibility for the implementation of the Latin American project "Culture of vocation" in their Province. They launched the project in May....[more]
"Unto you the saviour is born.”
With this joyful message, we want to greet you and wish that our hearts are open, like Mary’s, ready to be a manger for the birth of Jesus. He invites us to look at him and meet him. This looking and encounter awakens the joy...[more]
A ‚Tipi‘ for Jesus
The children from residential groups of the ‘Children’s and Youth welfare home St. Mauritz’, Münster, built a crib under the direction of Sister Hannelore Petri and Mrs.Eva-Louise Naßhan, a Design-Pedagogue. The children called...[more]
We SDP believe that we are taken into the relationship of the loving Trinity. It encourages and enables us to a spirituality of encounter, relationship and dialogue.
Our faith can give us a cheerful serenity within the challenges of our everyday life. It gives us the power to an ever new reconciliation with one another and urges us to a freedom that at the same time takes over responsibility.
We are convinced that our God wants life for everyone, life to the full. In him we acknowledge the dignity of every person and all life and are aware of our responsibility for the preservation of creation. Our conviction enkindles within us a deep joy of life and the courage to dare new things again and again.