16th May 2025 with Cardinal Lavigerie
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We are initiators
By Sr. Georgette Ouedraogo, Lilongwe community, Malawi Our founder Cardinal Charles Lavigerie and Mother Marie Salome as well as our sisters who preceded us in the mission, taught us to be initiators. Our history reveals how we have been initiators in the mission. So many schools, hospitals, parishes and centres have been initiated and passed on to others. Even though we are not initiating many institutions nowadays, let us not lose the focus, we still are initiators in various ways. When thinking about environmental care, we are called to reinforce our role as initiator. Have we ever witnessed rubbish (water bottles, takeaway containers, tissues, cobs of roasted maize, banana peels) flying out of posh cars, buses on the highway? Are these people not educated? Some of them are very highly educated, but they have not been initiated. No one has ever supported them with the awareness of disposing…