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The Sustainable Organic Gardening Course facilitated by Sr. Genelyn Caminian, SSJ with the assistance and support of Sr. Elma Tuzon, SSJ and Sr. Conception Cañonero, SSJ, started on February 24, 2022 and ended on April 07, 2022. The training lasted for two months in two schools: 1) Volavolo Primary School with 50 students (29 Female, 21 Male and 2 advisers) 52 participants. 2) St. Leo’s Primary School (25 students with 17 Female, 8 Male and 1 adviser) 26 participants. The Training in the schools was made possible through the approval of the two (2) school Principals and the class advisers who actively supported and participated in the training. The Sustainable Organic Gardening Input and actual gardening process were integrated in the Agriculture Subject of the Grade 8 students (recipients of the training) every Wednesday. The students were also given different formation sessions on Ecology, Human Formation, Gender Equality, Siervas de San Jose Charism and most especially on s

This simple but meaningful celebration of the 50th Anniversary of my Religious Consecration will always be a significant experience for me because it was a community celebration of both the SSJ Community and the Iawakaka Village Community. St. Pope Leo the Great Sub-Parish Church blessed with the presence of the 6 Zones communities, our Filipino Overseas Workers from Rabaul, my two sisters in the Community-Taller Srs. Concep and Gene, our Cluster Coordinator Sr. Yoly representing our PNG Cluster and our Holy Province and the Congregation as a whole and the Filipino missionary priests who led in the celebration of the Holy Eucharist, is such an immense experience of God’s unfathomable expression of His love and fidelity. My family was not with me because PNG is very far from the Philippines but I know that they were with me in spirit especially my parents and my three brothers who are enjoying God’s eternal bliss in heaven. God is present in various ways and I believe this with

Querida familia josefina, en estos días próximos a la celebración de San José, nuestro modelo y protector, estamos tod@s muy unid@s en la oración y acción de gracias. Ese día en la celebración, haré mis votos perpetuos en la parroquia donde crecí, en Sancti Spiritus, junto a las hermanas que están en Cuba, mis padres y amigos. Les invito a tod@s a unirse en esta acción de gracias a Dios y a la Familia de Nazaret MI INVITACIÓN A CELEBRARLO CONMIGO

Today, December 18, 2021, in the Eucharistic Celebration presided by Fr. Robert Sablon, MSP here in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, as we celebrate the 122nd Death Anniversary of our dear founder- Fr. Francisco Butinya, we are also celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Religious Consecration of Sr. Concep. Twenty-five years ago, she decided to leave her family in order to follow the call of God to be a Sierva de San Jose (Servant of St. Joseph), embracing the life of a woman-worker religious. To answer to the invitation of Jesus to follow Him is not easy because it means a lot of letting go but when there is Love to do the will of God, like Mary and Joseph in Nazareth who also offered to God their Yes to take care of Jesus, then nothing is impossible. For sure, Sr. Concep had many very meaningful experiences of serving God in her different ministries and what have been sustaining her were: her Faith in God’s love Who is always faithful, her hope that God will always be with her in all he