Lay Colleagues in Our Pursuits
Most of our schools have passed on their pursuits to lay colleagues who implement with competence and dedication the values that are dear to the hearts of the Ursulines.
Homes open their doors to help out single mothers and their children, to youth in need of re-adaptation, to persons wishing human development, or seeking their way in faith, etc.
Collaborators promote the transmission of faith, and that of the Ursulines' heritage in spirituality centers, museums,and archives.
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Lay People Who Share our Spirituality – Associate Members
Since the beginning of 1980, our spirituality is shared with Associates whose groups keep on expanding.
Three hundred and fifty members can be found wherever there are Ursulines of the Canadian Union, in Québec, Japan, Peru and the Philippines.
These lay adults, women and men anxious to investigate into their baptismal life and searching for a supporting group which is put in touch with the community. They undertake to make their way with a group, hence discovering a call to live up to and reveal Jesus, as discovered by Angela Merici, the founder of the Ursulines.
The Covenant spirituailty of Angela Merici and Mary of the Incarnation leads them to an intimate Union with Jesus thus enabling them to radiate the mission of love in their respective environment.
These groups exist in : Amqui, Baie-Comeau, Gaspé, Magog, Matane, Québec, Rimouski, Rivière-du-Loup, Roberval, Shawinigan, St-Léon-le-Grand, Trois-Rivières, Pérou-Iquitos and Lima, Japon-Sendai and Hachinohe and the Philippines-Mati.
In Trois-Rivières, the monthly retreat is also offered to our associates.
If you wish to know more about these groups, you may contact an Ursuline convent you know, or the one in charge of our Canadian Union:
Stella Tellier
784, Rue Des Ursulines
Trois-Rivières ( Québec )
G9A 5B5
Canada
Telephone : 819 375-603 Email stellier31@hotmail.com
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Lay Colleagues Exploring Mary of the Incarnation's Writings
University researchers explore the literary trove - spiritual and historical - of Mary of the Incarnation at our archives, and share with us the fruit of their discoveries.
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Lay Colleagues Serving Inside the Community
The average age of the community Sisters requires growing collaboration. This is why, in our convents, lay colleagues are taking over, day after day, a greater amount of services to our sick ssters in our infirmaries. We can also find them at work in our kitchens, maintainance, and as receptionists. Others contribute in the field of accountancy and secretarial work.
Their presence, intra muros, constitutes a mutual enrichment and the creation of a friendly relationship.
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