Holy Child College, Asa, Opens

26 October, 2016 The pioneer Sisters of Holy Child College, Asa, Otukpo, namely Sisters Antoinette Opara, Stella Envulu, Chinedu Ike and Jacinta Ekeh have successfully commenced the maiden academic session at the college with sixteen students who reported at the college on 17 September, 2016. The Sisters have also moved into the convent in the […]

SHCJ Formation: A Combined Effort

26 October, 2016 By Patricia Chidiuto Duru, SHCJ, Candidate Directress In the African tradition, ‘Send forth and Engagement’ is a special ceremony marked to bid farewell to couples before they leave their family to start a new home. Different cultures in Africa celebrate this differently but there is something that cuts across all these cultures. […]

Oghara Community Celebrates Feast of St. Teresa in Style

22 October 2016 It was all joy and excitement when the SHCJ Oghara Community staged a demonstrative exhibition of the art-works of one of her members, Sr. Anita Ekpo Dominic as part of the activities marking this year’s celebration of our Foundational Feast Day. The day started with the Holy Mass celebrated in the SHCJ […]

SHCJ Foundation in Africa and the Call to Reinvent our Mission

17 October 2016 A Reflection By The First African SHCJ On The Occasion Of The 170th Anniversary Of Our Society By Teresa Okure SHCJ Seventy years is our life span; ten more perhaps for the strongest. For the most part they are frustration and toil. They pass quickly and we are gone. Teach us to […]

A Reflection on 170 Years of Existence

October 13, 2106 The Society is celebrating 170 years this week. By Maria Ogochukwu Manu, SHCJ “For this is our mission: to help others to believe that he lives and acts in them and in our world, and to rejoice in his presence.” (SHCJ Constitutions #4) We are to carry out our mission as SHCJ […]

Holy Child Sisters Pen Song and Poem to Celebrate Society’s 170 Years

October 12, 2016 The Society is celebrating 170 years this week. Holy Child Sisters Katharine Holmstrom and Agnes Solomon expressed their love for the Society by writing a song and poem, respectively. By Agnes Solomon, SHCJ There was a nun by name ‘Cornie’ Who toiled to get a place for God With other nuns she […]