INAUGURATION OF THE CPS EUROPEAN PROVINCE

CPS Europe has lengthened its cords and widened the space of its tent!  The CPS European Province is now a reality with the inauguration of the new EU Province on 6 May 2018 at the Motherhouse Heilig Bloed, The Netherlands.  Congratulations!

We thank all the Sisters and the outgoing leadership teams of the Netherland Region, the Austrian and German Provinces for all your deliberations, perseverance and resilience over the past 22 years.

We congratulate and pledge our prayerful support to the new EU Provincial Leadership Team during the next two years of transition:

Sr. Ingeborg Müller – Provincial Superior

Sr. Pallotti Findenig – First Assistant and Representative

Sr. Magdalena Mikus – Second Assistant

Sr. Godelief Leijten – Third Assistant

Sr. Angelika Hellbach – Fourth Assistant

Sr. Monika Maria Pfaffenlehner – Fifth Assistant

Sr. Anna Mirijam Kaschner – Sixth Assistant

The EU Province comprises five countries (Austria, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Portugal) and is now our largest Province with a total of about 220 Sisters.  Let us give thanks and pray for our EU Province as we joyfully celebrate unity for the Kingdom that has no boundaries.

As we step into the Jubilee Year from December 2024 to 2025,

let us invite God the Holy Spirit to enable us to be real pilgrims of Hope

in our communities and among the people we serve. 

 

Father in heaven,

may the faith you have given us

in your son, Jesus Christ, our brother,

and the flame of charity enkindled

in our hearts by the Holy Spirit,

reawaken in us the blessed hope

for the coming of your Kingdom.

 

May your grace transform us

into tireless cultivators of the seeds of the Gospel.

May those seeds transform from within both humanity

and the whole cosmos

in the sure expectation

of a new heaven and a new earth,

when, with the powers of Evil vanquished,

your glory will shine eternally.

 

May the grace of the Jubilee

reawaken in us, Pilgrims of Hope,

a yearning for the treasures of heaven.

May that same grace spread

the joy and peace of our Redeemer

throughout the earth.

To you our God, eternally blessed,

be glory and praise for ever.

Amen (more…)