Tuesday, 3 February 2015: Meeting religious sisters and brothers of Archdiocese Utrecht

The meeting of religious day at Diocese of Utrecht has been done on Tuesday, 3 February 2015 at “Priorij Emmaus of the Kanunnikessen van het Heilig Graf” in Maarssen. There were around 50 sisters and brothers attended this meeting that come from 20 religious institutions.

After welcome and opening words, we celebrated Pontificale Eucharist lead by Cardinal Eijk, together with Mgr. Hoogenboom, Woorts, vicaris Cornelissen (Deventer) and vicaris Pauw (Arnhem). At this occasion we also got Blasius’s blessing.

After Eucharistic celebration we had lunch together and it was really time for knowing each other. After lunch we were divided into 4 groups and one group was led by one sister of this community. There are five community members. The sister told us about the spirituality and the history of their congregation. After that we had chance to see the rooms, led by the sisters of community. That was an enriching time for the participants. In the closing program  we took group photo. At 16.30 the program was closed by common evening prayer in the chapel and led by the Kanunikessen sisters.