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On the occasion of its open day, the Ángel de la Guarda health centre in Abobo – Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, strengthens and passes on to its staff and patients the meaning of being angels, through its mission of caring for life and entrusting it, so that it may be healed and accompanied in its fragility.

Being angels who welcome others through their ability to listen, to pay attention and to be close; opening the doors to those who seek to be healed, to be understood and to receive the medical care they need and do not always have access to.

Each of us, according to our own reality – patient, nurse, doctor or sick person – is called to be an angel for others. Those who provide care welcome the physical fragility of others and are called to comfort, to listen, to care and to heal; but those who suffer, in their own reality, strengthen, encourage and trust that in all things, even in vulnerability, God’s grace is present.

Opening the doors also means generously offering whatever can help others: a word, a greeting, an embrace, free laboratory tests and general medical consultations, being ready to give the best and most appropriate response to the needs of others.

We need one another to keep opening our hearts and our doors, to grow in welcome and in the awareness that being an angel concerns us all. And you, how are you an angel for others?

In the middle of mission month, we wish to shine a light on the tireless work of the missionaries who devote their lives to Equatorial Guinea.

A tour was organised to several centres, where some missionaries with more than forty years of service shared their testimony of teaching and evangelisation. This initiative is part of Mission Week, which precedes Domund – World Mission Sunday – a day instituted in 1926 by Pope Pius XI, whose origins go back to the 19th century and the laywoman Pauline Jaricot. Beyond spiritual support and prayer, this campaign fosters social awareness and global solidarity. As one of the missionaries reminded us: “Our vocation is not only to proclaim the Gospel, but also to support schools, orphanages and health centres wherever the need is greatest.”

On the penultimate Sunday of October, Domund invites us to remember that faith is also built on solidarity, empathy and human commitment.

Invest!

This simple word motivates, stimulates, gives momentum… Eyes turned towards the future, towards the goal, already savouring the fruit of victory!

INVESTING in children who need an education adapted to their learning difficulties motivates us and stirs up enthusiasm and creativity. It fills us with hope and points us towards “goals” as unique and varied as each of these little ones in whom we INVEST at our Santo Ángel school in Kogo. Yet our gaze does not wander too far ahead, for success is awaited and savoured every day, in the small steps and the small tasks accomplished, as in those wonderful and unexpected changes that nature lets us enjoy when an unhoped-for “CLICK” of maturation happens in the motor and neurological system.

It is wonderful, moving, a gift from Heaven to be able to believe in, accompany and celebrate the road travelled with these dear children: Oscar, Ildefonso, Ángel, Laura, Antonio, Puri… It is wonderful, and it gives full meaning to our missionary vocation as Sisters of the Guardian Angel to be, in some way, VISIBLE ANGELS for these children and their mothers.

All glory and praise to our God, who bends down to our littleness and who, in spite of everything, makes us his instrument.

The Sisters of the Guardian Angel of the Bamako community, in Mali, offered the girls of the parish of the Holy Martyrs of Uganda the opportunity to experience a vocational camp, whose theme was: “Come and you will see” (Jn 1:39). Fourteen girls answered this invitation.

All that remains is to ask you: and you, how are you answering the Lord in your search?

We, the sisters of the continental district of Africa, are moving forward and understanding our commitment to building community every day in a spirit of family and fraternal charity.

We are called to be bridges of encounter in our diversity and channels of communion in our plurality, bearing witness through our lives and our commitment to fraternity. This path invites us to return to the heart, rediscovering the meaning of our vocation and our gift of self. Like visible angels, we want to be guardians of life, encounter, mutual listening, and common search, always guided by the Spirit.

Fraternity also requires us to have the courage to overcome divisions and ask for forgiveness for our egocentrism. Thus, we can envision the future with serenity and confidence, remembering that our hope does not rest on numbers or works, but on the One in whom we have placed our trust, for whom nothing is impossible.

In our Constitutions, in Article 20, we reaffirm this commitment to building the community day by day. And, according to what inspires our last chapter, we want to live centered on Jesus, open to the novelty of the Spirit who calls us to be reborn, practicing simplicity, humility, and transparency.

With all this, we commit to investing in a culture of benevolence both within our communities and in our contexts, being a sign of hope and communion in the world.

Within our congregation, formation is understood as a global and continuous path of conversion and maturation. It leads the young woman to conform her life to that of Jesus Christ, through a particular charism: that of the Sisters of the Guardian Angel.

During the postulancy, the young woman sets out, guided by an inner voice that invites her to continue her search and to listen to the One who calls her by name and says: "Come and follow me." This first step is marked by a mission: "to create and recreate newness with all that she is."

Our accompaniment consists of walking alongside her, listening, shaping... but above all, allowing GOD to mold in her the desire to give herself to Jesus and to others. This means: forming her mind, learning to see the world through the eyes of Christ, initiating her into the habits and demands of consecrated life, cultivating interiority, listening to the Word through reading, personal and community prayer.

It is about nurturing in her the desire to "be a disciple of Jesus" in a concrete mission: to become a visible angel wherever the Lord sends her, to be His witness.

Bamako – Mali

Inviting, sparking curiosity, and welcoming young people who want to learn more about us and share something about themselves. This is the perfect hook for creating a group and walking alongside them in their experiences, then offering them the life of the One who loves us and calls us, as a life project.

Equatorial Guinea

Being a woman is a grace and a gift, but we must not deny that, in certain contexts, being a woman means bearing the entire burden: taking care of the family, the home, paid work (if one has it), and that work that is never valued: the continuous daily grind, work that, for many, consists only of small, insignificant things, but whose absence can paralyze everything.

In Africa, being a woman means learning to assume adult responsibilities while still a child, and this shapes and defines a way of being. The African family structure is patriarchal, as is society, but in daily life, it is the woman who leads, who drives life forward, and who brings forth life, even if we don't want to acknowledge it as such. Likewise, she revitalizes faith, transmits it, and expresses her connection with God through active engagement within the Church, in contexts of interreligious diversity which, far from being an obstacle, constitute an opportunity to express the diversity of gifts and charisms that the Lord awakens in vocations to both lay and consecrated life.

While some fear making a lifelong commitment, others embrace consecrated life as the greatest treasure and the reason why it is worthwhile to leave everything behind and feel truly like a woman, where living in fraternity and shared mission is the only value worth risking everything in the eyes of others and gaining everything.

On this day the Church invites us to walk with the magi to meet the baby Jesus. Children pray for children, Children evangelize children, children help children. In this joy the children of the parish of the Holy Martyrs of Uganda presented a sketch, spent the day together to flourish more. So that the Lord may make children missionaries of hope.

VOCATIONAL CULTURE: is a priority commitment in our pastoral activities. Welcoming and accompanying young people and... these young girls in their vocation journey is a challenge, that we are called to witness our charismatic values... being “visible Angels” for others.

Teachers at Guardian Angel Schools in Equatorial Guinea received training on the necessity and awareness of self-care, as an aspect to cultivate in order to better fulfill their mission of education, following the example of Jesus the Good Shepherd.

Every Thursday, at the Nafadji-Korofina health center (Bamako, Mali), nutrition sessions are organized for mothers with young children of breastfeeding age.

Sister Jeannette Douyon participated in a project management training course organized by the URSSCI (Union of Religious Working in the Field of Health and Social Platforms in Côte d'Ivoire) from December 1st to 5th. This training was a very enriching experience, allowing her to improve her knowledge, discover new practical methods, and acquire tools to better organize and manage projects. It enabled her to see that the project highlights the importance of teamwork.

From March 8 to 18, 2025, in Abidjan-Bingerville, Côte d’Ivoire, the 39th General Assembly of the Congregation took place, with the participation of the animation and consultation teams of the Congregation’s three continental Districts: America, Africa and Europe.

The various religious congregations and the Christian community of the parish of the martyrs of Uganda of Korofina - Bamako, thank and bid farewell to Sister Mercedes Cuadrado for her 59 years of service and life given to mission in Africa and wishing her good continuation in the new stage to be lived in Europe.

LET US LOVE EACH OTHER WELL

This is the call for a common, united and inclusive commitment to protect and promote the dignity and well-being of all. We commit to caring for and defending life and human rights wherever we are.

We take special care of those who are the smallest and most defenseless. Today we are committed to monitoring the protection of children and vulnerable adults.