May
(France)

Publication of the Acts of the Colloquium "Nicolas Barré. For a mysticism of ordinary life".
To reserve a copy: ijsgensecretary@gmail.com



 

21 May
Madrid (Spain)

Laities and Sisters from all over Spain will meet to receive the information from the European Laity meeting held recently in Paris. The meeting will serve to strengthen our ties and to continue to walk together as friends of Nicolas Barré".

4 June
Amiens (France)

Inauguration and blessing of the chapel to which the baptistery of Blessed N. Barré has been transferred, the church of Saint-Germain (his birth parish) being now closed for worship.

 

28 June 2022 -
27 June 2023
(Japan)

Celebrations for the one-year anniversary of Mother Mathilde's arrival in the port of Yokohama.
Opening Mass celebrated by Fr. Pierre Perrard, MEP

 

30 - 31 July
(Japan)

DVD showing of a documentary, “Thanks to your noble Shadow”, a life of Sr. Paschal O’Sullivan, the last missionary in the Japan Province who returned Ireland at the age of 97 after more than 70 years in Japan.

12 - 24 August
Le Mesnil-Esnard (France)

Infant Jesus Sisters -
Providence de Rouen

General Chapter
 



 

11 September
(Japan)

Talk on “The Catholic Church and the IJ Sisters of the Meiji Era” by Fr. Shinzo Kawamura, SJ (This may be live-streamed via ZOOM.)


 

October
(Japan)

Pilgrimage to Yokohama and Tsukiji, site where Mother Mathilde and other IJ sisters moved from Yokohama and began their missionary activities first in Tokyo (tentative at this stage) 
 

October
(France)

Publication of the book by the historian Françoise Buzelin on Mother Mathilde Raclot, who established, with a group of Sisters, a foundation in Japan from 1872.
 

6 November
(Japan)

Talk on “The bright and dark sides of Re-evangelization of Catholic Church in Japan since the Meiji Era” by Bp. Paul Kazuhiro Mori, ex-auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Tokyo
(This may be live-streamed.)