missionaries BRAZILIAN and U.S. sisters and associates minister in Santa Helena de Goiás in central Brazil.
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Lessons in love from central Brazil PHOTOS SISTER
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MARIANNE SAIEG, O.S.F. TEXT BY CAROL SCHUCK SCHEIBER AND JOEL SCHORN
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N 1963, THE SISTERS of St. Francis of Mary Immaculate—the Joliet Franciscans—answered a call to work in Brazil. Today, both U.S. and Brazilian sisters make up the community in Brazil. They work in parishes, run a school, and train health workers. “They taught us to be happy with less, says one sister who came to Brazil from the United States 40 years ago—before paved roads. “The people with
Sister Marianne Saieg, O.S.F. is a Joliet Franciscan, spiritual director, retreat facilitator, teacher, and photographer. She lives in Westmont, IL.
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THE SISTERS train health care workers to measure and weigh children and track their growth and development.
whom we lived and worked taught us to keep only what we really need, to use everything, waste nothing, spend time visiting, talking, and learning their values and ways of doing things.” That’s why the sisters stay. They’ve learned to love the people and their ways.
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