MISSIONARY OF SAINT COLUMBAN

Missionary Sister of Saint Columban –  Sister Caitlín Róisín, S.S.C. (little rose of St. Catherine)                                           † Ireland’s first Congregation of Missionary Sisters †                                                                              “Let us be Christ’s; not our own.”      –  St. Columban

Founders:  Reverend Edward J. Galvin                                                                                                                         Mother Mary Patrick  (Lady Frances Maloney)                                                                                       Reverend John Blowick, M.S.S.C.

Place:  Cahiracon, County Clare, Ireland

Year:  1924 A.D.

Her Charism:  This Sister is touched and set on fire by God’s love.  She is sent on mission to serve the poor and needy in underdeveloped nations of the world.  In the spirit of charity and  compassion, she crosses boundaries of culture, language, and beliefs to proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ.  This Sister is a witness of God’s “perpetual light” which relieves the suffering that accompanies devastating poverty and hunger, overcomes the world’s darkness (in such areas as the wholesale trafficking and exploitation of human beings as well as natural resources, the collapsing structures of family life, church, state, and economy), and she transforms them.  She sees a global searching and reaching for the Divine.  Holding on to God this missionary Sister is sustained and nourished by a spirituality which springs from contemplation and moves her to prophetic action and dialogue with a “full steam ahead” attitude.