Programs 2025
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Stepping into the Past, Living in the Present, Journeying toward the Future
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A program for Associates, Agrégées, Partners in Mission, and Friends of the Joseph Family
April 23-29, 2025
The program begins at 5 p.m. on April 23 and ends after breakfast on April 29.Welcome to Le Puy! Come and enjoy an exciting opportunity to discover, in fresh ways, the history, spirituality, and charism of the Family of Joseph as it unfolds for a new day. Come and listen to the ageless echo of the footsteps of the first members on the cobble-stone streets of France. Let them touch your soul. Explore the resonance and relevance of the echo from the past animating us to life in the present. Journey, with others, into the promise and hope of an evolving and unknown future at the very heart of this beautiful and dynamic charism. Come to appreciate ever more deeply your special place, your own call and journey into the mystery of relationship with God and with others. Embrace anew the spirituality that calls us always to “expansive and inclusive love” in the realities of the contemporary world. This seven-day program will integrate prayer, reflection, presentations and sharing, visits to special sites in the story of the Family of Joseph and the enjoyment of “walking together” in the movement of the Spirit. Come and be in Le Puy!
Suggested Contribution:
655 to 755 Euros (if paid with cash)
675 to 775 Euros (if paid with a bank transfer)
Register by March 23, 2025
Registration Form
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Sr. Mary Rowell, CSJ, is a Sister of St. Joseph in Canada and is vocation and first formation director for her Congregration. She currently works in retreat and environmental ministries at Villa St. Joseph in Cobourg, Ontario. In that capacity, Mary provides presentations and retreats across Canada and the United States, many of which focus on the CSSJ charism for all members of the “Joseph Family”. Mary also facilitates general chapters for various Congregations.
Formerly, a nurse and nurse educator Mary has been privileged to work in the United Kingdom, and in ophthalmology and blindness prevention programs in Bangladesh, China, India, various countries in South East Asia and in Romania.
Mary has a Bachelor’s degree in philosophy, a Masters in Medial Law and Ethics from the University of London in the U.K. and a doctorate in Theology from the University of Durham, U.K.
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Living Synodality from our St. Joseph Spirituality
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August 17-23, 2025
The program begins at 5 p.m. on August 17 and ends after breakfast on August 23.Our charism of Trinitarian, unifying love is needed more than ever! With the church declaring synodality, which is our charism in action, as ‘constitutive’ to its life, we followers of the Little Design are called to live synodality ourselves and to model it with others. Come explore how to integrate synodality into all we are and do, drawing on the Resurrection narratives, our Primitive Texts, our shared history and spirituality, and our lived experiences as well as those of the peripheries. This program is intended for lay and religious congregational, ministerial, and institutional leaders who desire to learn, deepen, and integrate a synodal way of being into their lives and service.
Suggested Contribution:
655 to 755 Euros (if paid with cash)
675 to 775 Euros (if paid with a bank transfer)
Register by July 17, 2025
Registration Form
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Sr. Dolores Palencia, CSJ. Mexican and Sister St. Joseph of Lyon with decades of experience in leadership (provincial, congregational, now as Coordinator of Albergue Guadalupano which receives thousands of refugees and asylum seekers each month). Dolores served as a Presidential Delegate to the 2022-2024 Synod on Synodalilty. She speaks French and English, along with her native Spanish.
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Mission Alive!
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September 6-13, 2024
The program begins at 5 p.m. on September 6 and ends after breakfast on September 13.This program offers a pilgrimage for lay partners in mission and provides an immersion experience into the original spirit and global dimension of the charism and spiritual tradition of the Sisters of Saint Joseph. If you are associated with one of the ministries founded by the Sisters of Saint Joseph as an administrator, staff person, board member, or supporter, this program is for you! Come deepen your learning, nourish your imagination and strengthen your conviction in participating in a world-wide movement that fosters union with God in drawing all into one. The week-long experience offers a rhythm of presentations, interactive participation, prayer, and visits to historic sites in Le Puy-en-Velay. A day trip to Lyon is also included.
Suggested Contribution:
655 to 755 Euros (if paid with cash)
675 to 775 Euros (if paid with a bank transfer)
Register by August 6, 2025
Registration Form
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Sr. Dolores Clerico, SSJ is a Philadelphia Sister of Saint Joseph (USA) with ministry experience in the academic, parish, diocesan, and congregational arenas. She is a frequent speaker, workshop presenter, and retreat facilitator for sisters, associates, and partners in mission throughout the United States and annually at the International Centre.
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The Lace is Not Yet Finished
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September 16-22, 2025
The program begins at 5 p.m. on September 16 and ends after breakfast on September 22.By the power of the Holy Spirit, the hearts of a small group of women in Le Puy-en-Velay were enflamed by God's call to reach out to people suffering from devastating poverty, pervasive violence, and stifling oppression. These women found their home in the Gospel and in the teachings of the itinerant Jesuit, Jean Pierre Médaille. They found that God was present among them, at work within them, and in love with the world in which they lived. They joined together in 1650 as followers of Jesus to become the community of God's Great Love, the Sisters of St. Joseph.
In each generation since, the Holy Spirit has awakened God's compassionate presence in the hearts of women to respond to the ever-changing needs of the people of God.
In this program participants will get in touch with and claim once again the transformative power of this charism in our midst and into the future. They will also explore the streets of Le Puy-en-Velay and visit and pray in the original Kitchen, Living History Centre, Cathedral of Notre Dame du Puy, Chapel of St. Michel d'Aiguilhe, Eglise du Collège, and Tree of the Martyrs. Then they will travel to Lyon to visit the Heritage Room and graveside of Mother St. John Fontbonne. The Lace begun in 1650 is not yet completed. The threads are now in our hands. We are challenged to be responsive to the grace poured out in our world to reveal God's great love.
Suggested Contribution:
655 to 755 Euros (if paid with cash)
675 to 775 Euros (if paid with a bank transfer)
Register by August 16, 2025
Registration Form
Read more about this program
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Sr. Jane Delisle, CSJ is a Sister of St. Joseph from Orange, CA, USA. Jane has come to Le Puy-en-Velay many times with sisters and staff from the Orange Health Systems.
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We offer you many opportunities at the centre throughout the year including:
- Guided pilgrimages and programs
- Group visits
- Individual visits
- Private retreats
- Personalized reflective days
We look forward to welcoming YOU!
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For More Information
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Centre International St. Josephcentre.internationalwanadoo.fr
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