This Saturday (January 28) marks 50 years since the death of the remarkable father of Sion who saved hundreds of Jewish children during the Second World War. Father Théomir Devaux (d. 28 January 1967) devoted most of his life to the development of Judeo-Christian relationship. He spent several years at Ratisbonne Monastery, in Jerusalem and Read More
Fr. Carlos Vasconcelos, NDS, Father of Sion who lives in Ein Karem community (Jerusalem), has recorded a video in Jerusalem Old City in which he sends a Christmas message to all brothers, sisters and friends of Sion. CLICK HERE TO SEE THE VIDEO (English subtitled).
In the video below you can see images of the experience made by the Brothers of Sion Fr. Carlos Vasconcelos and Fr. Manoel Souza in Costa Rica last October. They were invited by the Sion sisters from Costa Rica to talk about the Sion vocation.
On this December 8, 2016, the day of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady, the brothers and sisters of Sion had many reasons to celebrate. In addition to the Marian title, it was also an occasion for the celebration of the renewal of the temporary vows of Brother Victor Alves, nds. The Mass was presided Read More
The Sion School of Arujá (Brazil) of Brothers of Sion has recently got the first place among other schools in the same city, in the ranking of marks achieved in the National Examination of Secondary Education (ENEM, in Portuguese acronym) during the year 2015. Its score was 614,000, while the second place (Ipe School) obtained 611,000. “I know the teachers Read More
The Religious of Sion Fr. Carlos Vasconcelos, NDS and Fr. Manoel Rodrigues, NDS went this last weekend for a missionary experience in Costa Rica for 15 days. Sion Sisters of the region invited them to talk about their personal experiences while Sion Religious, with a vocational perspective also for the male branch. CLICK HERE TO Read More
On the last 20th of September, a meeting of Sion Aspirants and Postulants took place in Mogi das Cruzes (Brazil). This meeting takes place every 20th of each month, the day that commemorates the “signal of 20 January of 1842”, when the Virgin appeared to our Founder Father Alphonse Ratisbonne. The Superior General of the Read More
The brothers Elio Passeto, Cristovao Oliveira and Joel Moreira spent this week studying together the text “Reframing the Question: Between Second-Temple Apocalypse and the Talmud”, by the Jewish theologian Daniel Boyarin. The author develops the notion of Apocalypse beyond a sectarian or single stream of Judaism in the time of Jesus (as many classical theologians Read More
The Brothers of Our Lady of Sion concluded on Friday (July 29) the 26th General Chapter of the Congregation, with the celebration of Holy Mass at 16h, in Mogi das Cruzes (SP). At 8am this same day, we started our meeting congratulating Br. José Souza (who celebrates his birthday today), we completed the reading of the last minutes Read More
