42 years of Early Childhood Education
In 1968, as part of the centennial celebrations of CND in Summerside
Being Truly Aware of God’s Presence and God’s Call
“I made profession in 1951. My name is Georgina MacInnis. I’m a very happy Congrégation de Notre-Dame Sister. I had a real definite conviction that that’s where I was to spend my life, and I never looked back.”
Sister Georgina did not always want to be a religious. She had decided after high school to go to Teacher’s College but, she says “I wasn’t even convinced after that that I wanted to teach!” She thought she would try it for a year. She was only 18, and taught in 8 grades in a small town along the Atlantic Ocean. None of the children in the school were Catholic: Sister Georgina had really opted for a situation that was different from all she knew. That radical choice lead her to an even more radical one after that, as she decided to enter religious life.
Prayer service for the Feast of Marguerite Bourgeoys, 2017
“Go to the peripheries. In a spirit of mutuality and collaboration, respond in hope to the cries of our wounded world.” The second direction of the CND Orientation 2016-2021
Suggested Opening Song: Mission Song (Ave, Kathleen Deignan, CND) you may wish to intersperse verses after each reading
We will gather up the Blood of the Savior,
which is shed by the ignorance of people.
We will gather up the Blood of the Lord.
We will teach the gospel of justice;
we will labor for the kingdom of peace.
We will sow the seeds of the Spirit;
we will harvest the fruit of new life.
We have come to the new land to labor
for the new world promised in Christ.
May there always be written on
our dwellings the great commandment of love.
