The COM-FORMATION SYMPOSIUM took place on 17 December 2025, an online meeting involving around 70 participants including sisters from our Congregation, other religious women, men and priests from different parts of the world.
The SYMPOSIUM was conceived as a space for formation, listening and sharing which concluded 6 months of formation led by Sr Claire Oramah (Delegation of Nigeria) in which the formators and prioress of our Congregation took part.
A formation course entirely centered on the theme of COMPASSION, both because it is a constitutive element of our charisma, and because the psychological approach of Compassion Focused Therapy (founded by Paul Gilbert in 2005 and on which this formation period was based) considers it the “engine”, that motivation to be cultivated for one’s personal growth and to improve one’s relational life (community life, couple life, etc.).
During the Symposium the sisters – who took part in the training of these months – told us about the journey they have made, the positive changes they have seen within themselves, in carrying out their formation and leadership task, but also in their relationships with others, with the sisters and with people.
Therefore, it was not just a personal work, but something that has already begun to bear fruit in the mission because it has allowed us to “open spaces” for many others to grow in compassion.
Furthermore, this formation path allowed each sister to experience interculturality, in the encounter with diversity and synodality in collaboration.
In this year 2025, in which our Congregation celebrated 20 years of reunification, this SYMPOSIUM reminded us that each of us is called to continue to grow our religious Family in compassion and with compassion and to ensure – following the example of our saints – that compassion quenches the hunger for peace, for listening, for security, for welcome, of many around us.