In an interview with ACI Africa on Monday, June 3, Sr. Bundo said, “It’s important that we, as consecrated Franciscan Servants, qualify our lives by our authenticity, by our radical living of the Gospel, by our living of the Eucharistic and Franciscan charism.”
“Thanks be to God, we have risen in Angola, in an era in which we are living synodality. The spirit of communion in the communities has been a driving force,” the Catholic nun said.
“We’ve been in Angola for more than 60 years, we have a school with more than 600 students, we don’t have a specific work of ours, we fully take on all pastoral work, from catechesis to accompanying groups and movements,” Sr. Bundo said.
The SFRJS Superior in Angola further said that the congregation is also part of national commissions such as the Episcopal Commission for Liturgy and the Commission for the Family in Angola.
She said the congregation’s members are present in five Diocese in Angola: the Diocese of Kuito Bié, the Diocese of Benguela with four communities, the Archdiocese of Lubango with one community, the Archdiocese of Luanda, and the Diocese of Caxito. In these dioceses, the sisters work in catechesis, liturgy, the Eucharist, education, and health and family ministry.
SFRJS has 52 sisters in total, Sr Bundo told ACI Africa, and added that the congregation also has three Angolan sisters working in the missions in Portugal, Brazil, and Mozambique.
“Thanks be to God; we have a group of vocations. We have our novitiate open, we have novices and postulants in formation and we plan to admit new postulants soon,” Sr. Bundo said, and noted that the issue of vocations is “not just a question of selection.” Vocations, she explained, “is rather a question of adherence and commitment.”
