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The Poor Sisters of Nazareth
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MET5
Filmed at Nazareth Houses in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Kimberley, Fourteen Streams, Elsies River, Port Elizabeth and Harare. A one-hour video documentary, presented by the Sisters of Nazareth, explores the life and charism of the Poor Sisters of Nazareth in the Southern African region. "Now that we have moved into the third millennium we, as a congregation of the Poor Sisters of Nazareth, ask ourselves, what is our vision for the future? What are our hopes? What are our dreams? Our Holy Father Pope John Paul II has asked us to be witnesses to hope. So, let me briefly take you back in time to the year 1851. When our foundress, Victoire Larmenier, Mother Saint Basil, in answer to a divine call, left her home in France, made her way into England, to work with Cardinal Wiseman for the poor , the aged, the abandoned children and the neglected. This work she lovingly carried out for a number of years throughout many parts of England. Then, in 1882, she made her first foundation in Southern Africa, in Cape Town. Here sisters lovingly and devotedly carried out the same work... Now as we move into the year 2000 what, if Mother Saint Basil was with us today, would her vision be. Christ himself has said "The poor you have always with you". As we look around needs abound. The A.I.D.S. orphans are there in their numbers; the A.I.D.S. victims - young and old. Where are the Sisters of Nazareth? It is our vision and my hope for every sister to be at the cutting-edge and to carry into the future that wonderful charism that our foundress had. She was a woman for the poor - for God's poor." opening words of Mother Veronica, Regional superior of Nazareth House for Southern Africa.
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