Four young sisters officially integrate the Order of St Joseph of Cluny |22 March 2021

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After joining the Sisters of St Joseph of Cluny two years ago as part of their training process to formally integrate the Order, four young Sisters from Tanzania have taken their first vows and have been formally accepted in the Order.

This was during a short ceremony held on Friday at the St Joseph of Cluny convent in Victoria.

The young Sisters aged between 22 and 31 years took their vows to live a life of obedience, simplicity and chastity and to commit their lives to the congregation and the Order of St Joseph of Cluny to live in a community and a missionary life to serve the will of God.

They took their vows before the Vicar General Father Eric Leon and the Vice Provincial for the Order of St Joseph of Cluny for Seychelles and Tanzania Sister Anne Faure.

Sister Anne welcomed the integration of the young Sisters to the Order as a great achievement and a great boost to the Order whose members are ageing and have been dwindling over the years due to diminishing interest to commit to the Order over the years both locally and globally.

Sister Faure noted that the Order is encouraged by the interest shown by young girls in the Tanzania Province to join the congregation expressing the hope that more will be encouraged to commit their lives to the Order.

Marie-Anne Lepathy