Brazil

In 1960s the congregation was urged to minister in South America. Mother Borromeo sent 4 sisters to Santa Helena in Goiânia, Brazil to form a mission there in 1963.Click here to read more about our history in Brazil.

Today 23 members of our congregation minister in different parts of Brazil. Their ministries span from education to family ministry. Currently, there are 17 Professed Sisters, 4 Temporary Professed Sisters and 2 Pre-novitiates in Brazil.

These Sisters continue our ministry as teachers in all levels of education (including the blind), in religious education, in pastoral care, as administrators, as leaders of parish liturgy, as clinical psychologist, as pastoral counselor, in special pastoral program for women and children, in care of the elderly, in health services, in a program for the rural community, in recruitment and formation of new members, in a program for lay men and women as collaborators (associates) of the Congregation.

Our geographic territory in central Brazil now includes five missions in the state of Goiás, and one in the state of Tocantins, a northern tropical state formed from Goiás. Our Sisters ministered to the people who built the new capitol city, Brazilia, from 1966-80. Individual Sisters have ministered in Rondônia, Petropolis, Santarém, and Rio de Janiero.