ESTADOS UNIDOS • USA
OPEN THE DOORS
ABRID LAS PUERTAS Abrid las Puertas, el tema de nuestro Centenario, nos invita a vivir con valentía el valor de la hospitalidad. La amistad inquebrantable de nuestros colaboradores nos anima en este momento decisivo a soñar con nuestro futuro juntos. El fiat de nuestras hermanas en sus etapas personales de transición y cambio es evidencia del Espíritu que infunde nueva vida, expandiéndonos más allá de las fronteras.
Open the Doors , the theme for our Centennial Year, beckons movement as an intentional call to action. Open the Doors invites us to live our value of hospitality with emboldened courage. As a Province, we stand on a threshold as we near the 100th anniversary of our beginning in the United States on April 30, 2026. In this season, we are witnessing our community of sisters, associates and collaborators opening doors, walking into unknown waters with great openness and rooted faithfulness. On July 27, 2025, 200 guests squeezed into the chapel at St. Raphaela Center (a space that normally seats 65). God’s abundance was felt.
As friends, colleagues, and former students poured into the Center to reconnect and mark this moment alongside us, to open the Centennial Year, a brimming sensation of possibility flooded the space. We gathered to remember and look back through our history, yet the truest, most palpable invitation of the Spirit called our eyesight (and insight) forward to the other side of this present moment — to the future which we cannot see. In this gathering of song and sacrament, we were called to lean forward – into a current of hope. In our Centennial song we proclaim, “ small but unafraid, freed by grace, each day learning to be your clay. ”
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