The 100th Anniversary Program-Issoudun

Hi Everybody,

Here are some photo of the team and participants for our 3-week session to mark the death of our founder Jules Chevalier.

1) Photo n°1 is Fr. Joannès Rozier - our "French connection" technical expert, accountant and historian. With him is Sr. Bernadette who came from our generalate in Rome to help me since Gerardine was still in Australia.

2) Photo n°2 is Fr. Nick Harnan (Irish) our facilitator and Fr. Hans Kwakman whom some of you already know, sitting at the head conference table in our conference room.

3) Photo n°3 is Nick and myself. You'll notice the little country flags that we bought for the occassion. When the flags arrived (from England) they included a flag from Congo that was still the old one (they changed in 2006) so we had to make one and you'll notice it's slightly bigger than the others.

4) Photo n°4 is still Nick and myself. When I wasn't giving the conference my place was at the little desk with the tape recorder as I did the morning prayers and liturgy preparation and we usually had some music for those times.

5) Photo n°5 is of the whole group (72 participants) outside in front of the conference center.

Priests, Brothers, Sisters and Lay Associates from 26 countries and many different languages.

You'll notice the Sister in the front with the cast. She fell and broke her wrist on the first morning of the session so we had to pack her in ice and wisk her to the hospital with everything else happening that first day!

After the three week seminar, 32 of us went on pilgrimage for a week to the East part of France to visit the places associated with our first superior general. At her birthplace in Wissembourg, the town Mayor treated all 32 of us to a beautiful dinner in a classy restaurant and then a free ride on the town sight-seeing train. Alsace is a beautiful region of France and the scenery was magnificant.

Lots of love to all of you. I'll keep you posted as to other exciting happenings in this part of the world.

Much love,

Linda