MISSIONARY SISTER OF OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS

Missionary Sister of Our Lady of the Angels –  Sister Mei Lien Song, M.N.D.A.                                                                    Soeur Missionaire de Notre-Dame des Anges                                                                   Congregatio Sororum Missionariarum a Nostra Domina Angelorum                                                                                   “Love the size of the world”                                                                                 “Omnibus omnia factus sum”  –  “I made myself all things to all people.”

Foundresses:  Mother Marie-du-Sacré-Coeur –  (Florina Gervais – Canada)                                                              Sister Marie-Gabriel –  (Chan Tsi Kwan – China)

Place:  Lennoxville, Canada originally; Canton, China in later years

Year:  1922 A.D. (Canada); 1926 A.D. (Hong Kong)

Her Charism:  Like the angels of Our Lady, this Sister wants to be a witness to God’s tenderness for the world.  With a great Franciscan spirit, joy, simplicity, compassionate heart and radiant kindness to all, she “becomes Chinese among the Chinese” to build up the Kingdom of God in this world while waiting for the next one in Heaven.  With her mission being exclusively in China, this Sister’s chief work is to offer young Chinese girls hope and the opportunity for a religious education to prepare them for a life consecrated to God.  She evangelizes through teaching, nursing, operating orphanages, social work, and catechesis.  This Sister’s life is marked by a rare nobility of feelings, unfailing fidelity, unpretentious apostolic courage, and a radiant kindness to all whom she loves and wants to lead to Christ.