The formal opening and dedication of Cornelia Connelly School of the Holy Child Jesus at Mpeasem, Cape Coast, Ghana took place on the 24th of September, 2016. The ceremony started at 9.00 am with the Holy Eucharist. The main presider was His Grace, Most. Rev. Matthias Kobina Nketsiah, assisted by the Community Chaplain, Rev. Fr. […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
21 September 2016 Students of Holy Child College, S.W. Ikoyi Lagos recently embarked on visits to the Nigerian Prisons service in Ikoyi Lagos and also cleaned the Church of the Assumption in Falomo as practical ways of carrying out the work of mercy in this Jubilee year of mercy. Click on the thumbnails below to […]
16 September 2016 By Sr. Ann Schulte, SHCJ The instructions on the paper read “The two sisters will move forward to the Altar, the rest of the sisters will stand and stretch their hands over them”. We had gathered in the Chapel at Keffi Street, with representatives from the 5 communities in Lagos, Nigeria (Keffi […]
7 September 2016 By Sr. Stephanie Ugwu, SHCJ The SHCJ came to Africa in 1930, and by 1946 we began the foundation in Ghana. We started work in Cape Coast then spread to Takoradi, Bolgatanga, Accra and Walembelle. We have opened communities in Goaso, Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana. That seed sown 70 years ago […]
