On
30th of January 2020, we three sisters along with other sister formees
and our Academic
Head travelled to Kandy where we had the residential program. Though we are from
different Congregations, we stayed for forty days
as one community. It was an enriching experience to form ourselves with the
sisters from 8 Congregations and seven Nationalities. On the first days of our
program we had the sharing about our personal life and vocational journey,
which made us to know, understand and accept each other as we are. On the
following day we had the cultural program which depicted our cultures and reminded
us to look back to our origins.
Afterwards
we had classes by various Priest - Professors which helped us to know and mold
ourselves in a spiritual way. The topics were very much real to our lives and
mainly in Non Violent Communication, we learned how to maintain quality
relationships, being non-Judgmental communicants, and learned that forcing
others to do what I wish, is a violent and which will not be helpful to
maintain the quality relationship. About prayer and discernment we found our
way of being in relationship with God and others, that is through the nature and
all the means provided to us. And also
the session on Eucharist and Sacraments have helped
us to internalize our own participation in the Eucharistic celebration.
During
these days of our stay we had the recollection and the Lenten preparation which
helped us to live our life faithful to God.
Living these days
integrating ourselves by knowing who we are and enjoying the diversity of
persons, we experienced the transformation in us. The day before leaving to our
respective communities we visited Sigiriya, the world famous heritage of Sri Lanka.
With all these enriching experiences we were back to our communities on 9th
of March 2020.
We thank the Congregation and the Delegation, for
giving us the opportunity to participate in this formation course.
Huguette, Janitha, and Jeevathy
Sister Fomees 2020
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