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Remembering Our Blessed Sisters
Cloths embroidered by our Blessed Sisters On 8 December 2018, two of our Sisters were Beatified, together with 17 other Martyrs who lost their lives during the Algerian civil war, between 1994 and 1996. Sr Bibiane OLA (Denise LeClerq, aged 65) and Sr Angèle-Marie OLA...
Bugisi Vocational Training Centre Celebrates Silver Jubilee
Jubilee celebrations took place on 30 November and people travelled from far and wide to attend the festivities. Those in attendance included man of our OLA Sisters on mission in Tanzania, as well as well known female politician, Azza Hilal Hamad, of the ruling party...
President Higgins Addresses Intergenerational Climate Conference
Sr Nora Lucy shakes hands with President Michael D Higgins The Cork Conference on Intergenerational Climate Justice took place in City Hall last week and OLA were thrilled to have been a part of the organising committee for this event. The event was a huge success...
Generation Equality Stands Against Rape
The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an annual international campaign that kicks off on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and runs until 10 December, Human Rights Day. This year’s...
RIP Sr John Vianney Cosgrove
Farewell to Sr. John Vianney Cosgrove, 17th September 2019 Kathleen McGarvey OLA, Provincial Leader Good afternoon and welcome. We are gathered here today to thank God for the long and fruitful life of Sr John Vianney Cosgrove, our Sister, our aunt and our...
The Web of Life
The 2019 Season of Creation has begun and Pope Francis’s statement for the World Day of Prayer for Care of Creation calls for prayer, repentance, and conversion of life. It references the upcoming climate action summit at the U.N. and urges us to reflect on our...
Earth Overshoot Day (2019)
Earth Overshoot day this year is TODAY. Today is the day that we have used up nature’s budget for the whole of 2019! Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in...
First Profession for Mary Mark Mtui
Yesterday, 25th July 2019, Mary Mark Mtui from Tanzania made her First Profession at the SMA House of Formation in Bodija, Ibadan, Nigeria. Mary is from Moshi, Tanzania which is near to Mt Kilimanjaro. She entered the OLA Noviciate at Oke Maria in Ibadan,...
OLA Remembrance Day 2019
Remembering our departed Sisters The Irish Embassy in Nigeria recently shared this photo taken at the old Dutch Cemetery in Elmina, Ghana. The headstone is of Sr Perpetua OLA, born 1865, died 1890. The OLA Sisters opened a school for girls in Elmina way back...
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