I equated missionary and mission to traveling, being in a poor, underdeveloped country, or being in a place where God has not been heard or the Good News has not been preached. All these notions changed when I entered our congregation, the Sister-Servants of the Holy Spirit of Perpetual Adoration, or the Pink sisters - [...]
We celebrated the Holy Mass on December 8, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, with much joy and gratitude. This day begins the Jubilee Year of our congregation, the Year of Grace. On December 8, 2021, we will be celebrating the 125th Anniversary of our foundation. Thank God, through Fr. Arnold [...]
M. Maria Magdalena, SSpSAP We are happy to announce to the world that our congregation, Sister-Servants of the Holy Spirit of Perpetual Adoration, has a new Superior General: Mother Maria Magdalena Kruse. She is a German and was former superior in our convents in Slovakia, Poland, and Berlin. She was also the Procurator [...]
I just want to share the chosen Logo for our 12th General Chapter. According to our sister-designer, the design was inspired by the prayer for the Year of Preparation for our 12th General Chapter. The image of the dove is God the Holy Spirit to whom the Adoration Sisters are consecrated and by whom [...]
Our Sisters from our convent in Cordoba, Argentina has posted their virtual Newsletter. They are sending all of you their heartfelt wishes and prayers for the New Year. Here is the link to their post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJJ2kgHcDkg&feature=youtu.be
We wish you all - our families, friends and visitors of our website - A HAPPY and GRACE-FILLED NEW YEAR 2019! Thank you very much for all the moral and prayerful support, kind help and encouraging inspirations you have extended to us through the past year 2018! Thank you for walking with us and for [...]
Today, June 1, 2016, we are celebrating with joy and gratitude the First Anniversary of our website: www.sspsap-motherhouse.nl. Our gratitude goes to our good and generous friend and webmaster, Mark Brouwer, who helped us put this up and is still helping us maintain it and keep it up to date. Although updating the content, especially [...]
We are celebrating today, January 15, the Feast of St. Arnold Janssen, Founder of the three Mission Congregations of Steyl, Netherlands: the Society of the Divine Word (SVD), the Missionary Sisters, Servant of the Holy Spirit (SSpS) and our own congregation, the Sister-Servants of the Holy Spirit of Perpetual Adoration (SSpSAP) Many things have already [...]
Today we join in spirit our Sisters in Bad Driburg, Germany, as they joyfully celebrate the Nameday and, at the same time, the Silver Jubilee of Religious Profession of our Superior General, Mother Mary Elizabeth. With Mother, we thank God for calling her to our Congregation and for giving her the beautiful, though heavy responsibility, [...]
Today, a hundred years ago, we started solemnly the service of perpetual adoration. Our Co-foundress, Mother Mary Michael, had done her best to secure permission for perpetual exposition of the Blessed Sacrament from the bishop of Roermond, and finally, on November 6, 1915, we gratefully received it. What joy our Sisters then must have felt by [...]
