Canonical Visit
Upcoming Canonical Visit: The Canonical Visit is scheduled to take place from 8th September to 17th October 2026, offering a valuable opportunity for reflection, accompaniment, and renewal of our community life and mission.
Announcement of the Canonical Visit of the General Council and Delegated Visitors
Subject: Announcement of the Canonical Visit to the Communities of "St. Francis Xavier" Province of India Centre.
Dearest Sisters,
The Solemnity of Corpus Christi is a precious invitation to contemplate and adore the great gift of the Eucharist, in a fast-paced world, God chooses to pause and draw near to us in the humility of a piece of bread. May this reality help each of us to welcome His living presence in our daily lives and awaken the desire to be a gift of love for others, following the example of Jesus.
In this context of grace, I officially announce the date of our upcoming Canonical-Fraternal Visit, which will take place in your Province from B September to 17th October 2026
Purpose and aim of the Canonical Visit
Four years after the General Chapter, this special time becomes for us a precious opportunity for listening and sharing, in which we can renew and strengthen our journey personal, community. Institute and Church. With an open heart, we prepare to rediscover our being "Women of the Word who love without measure", called to make visible the diakonia of Charity, which educates, evangelizes, consoles, forms and accompanies spiritual life
We live in a time of challenges and opportunities, in which Mission, Interculturality, Reconfiguration, Governance and Formation question us deeply. These themes invite us to listen attentively and lovingly to people, to feel co-responsible for fraternal life in our communities and to remain close to the world around us.
With humility, we invoke the presence of the Holy Spirit so that this visit may become a true and profound encounter between us, Sisters in faith, a luminous exchange of experiences and hopes. We wish that this time may help us to live an authentic, open communion, free from the fear of judgment or efficiency, and full of trust and courage.
Let us prepare ourselves together to live this time of grace with an open heart, with simplicity and discernment, ready to welcome what the Holy Spirit will suggest to us in the Canonical-Fraternal Visit and will inspire in each of us. May this visit be an opportunity to open ourselves together to new insights and courageous steps that, alone, we would not have been able to imagine.
While waiting to meet us, we ask the Lord for the gift of knowing how to live our faith as a path of discernment to be prophecy in today's world with the heart of Christ.
May the intercession of St. Magdalene, St. Josephine Bakhita and St. Francis Xavier, sustain us in our mission of making Jesus known and loved by responding to the needs of humanity, where love is most urgent.
Together with the Sisters: Josemary, Mariana, Melissa and Albertina with fraternal affection
Sr. Sandra Maggiolo
Congregation Leader