Foundation

A story with an endless beginning…



It began in 1650....

Since then, three centuries have passed…
Three centuries of history designing three series of events
Each calling us to pursue a moment when all seemed lost each one giving birth to almost nothing…apparently.

In the 17th century

Some simple and generous women who had only their faith as their wealth joined together to experience their life in God. Their life together resulted in such a need to share that they could not help turning themselves to a world in distress in order to share the experience of their meeting God and his loving communication with all. Thus that appeared the first communities of Sisters of St. Joseph who very quickly grew multiplied.

The violence of the revolution

Caused all which had been born of that first animation to collapse. But that passage through trial and death was not definitive. Other women renewed the same steps: living in common their experience of the Christian life and communicating to others the experience of the love of god which became a re-creation for themselves and for others. Something new revealed itself in their life and in the world.

Still today

Through a crisis which shakes humanity, the world is in passage to the future. Our industrial and technological society can still be converted to new ways, open to new countries, to new tasks and in every situation to a new communication of life. For the Sisters of St. Joseph as for the world, the future can still be restored. Passing beyond fare to joy, like the women who discovered the empty tomb of Jesus raised, Sisters of St. Joseph have the certitude: everything can still be done, for Jesus is always at work among us.

Thus, history is always beginning again.