Our pastoral mission is at the service of those who seek spiritual renewal, time off for meditation, resourcefulness, solitude and prayer. Bikfaya, Ain Alak and Our Lady of Qannoubine convents are renowned for that. And many of the sisters help in the parishes.

   Our cultural and artistic mission at the Workshop of Sacred Art aims at a return to the source, the valorization of the heritage, the re-creation of its particularity in icons, stained glass, objects of worship and vestments. It seeks to incarnate the spirit of the Maronite liturgy by using the syriaque language for the motifs and decoration, according to the liturgical cycle.

In addition, a great number of our sisters express themselves through manual art: cooking, sewing, weaving, embroidery, painting, woodcarving and floral decoration. This charisma of the handwork gives them a chance to enjoy life, pray and innovate, emphasizing the importance of the symbolic and the poetic as spaces for human and spiritual enhancement.

Our mission in the media speaks the language of our time: T.V. interviews and programs, publication of books, articles, conferences and the use of the audio-visual means. It is a mission of cultural formation, aiming at spreading God's message through reading, listening and seeing.

  Our educational mission the main objective of our educational mission is to seek ways and means to achieve an adequate formation of our students: spiritually, intellectually and socially. These educational missions accommodate the major part of our activities throughout the Lebanese regions and abroad and offer appropriate educational services at all levels of society.

      Our educational mission is "a leaven of salvation" and aims at molding the moral character of our fellow men and women by adopting the most appropriate and the most recent methods of formation: educating and teaching while providing the most adequate training facilities in view of openness, solidarity and dialogue of cultures at all levels: ecumenical, political and interreligious, at a time when our unstable country is at the verge of explosion.

   Our social and healthcare mission of compassion and charity is lived through our Homes for children (orphans and social cases), our hospitals, dispensaries and homes for the elderly and for the mentally and physically handicapped. Our vocation is to alleviate suffering through our presence, care, attention, psychiatric and spiritual help. We have to provide a family to those who suffer from loneliness, a meaning of life to those who lost it and an ideal to those who do not have one.

   Our mission of reception consists in opening fraternal and family-like homes for university students who move to the city to pursue their higher education.

  Our mission abroad

      Established in France, the United States of America, Canada, Australia, Cyprus and Jerusalem, our mission has no frontiers; it is at the service of our people abroad and in communion with all other people.

      We went there at the repeated requests of our Maronite ecclesiastical hierarchy. Our institutions abroad form a bridge between Lebanon and the countries they are implanted in; they are oases of hope to maintain ties with the motherland and a steady desire to revisit it. Our institutions aim at openness without losing our identity and the acquisitions of competences which serve society and enrich both parties.

      Faithful to our Maronite Church and to our Lebanese heritage, we go abroad with what we are, welcoming foreign human contribution, within a well-balanced exchange and communication.

      In our ravaged Lebanon, conflicts spare no one and nothing. Facing these increasing needs, our services remain minimal, but always tend to become more efficient, loving and charitable.

      In conclusion, enlightened by the Holy Spirit, we try to be of help to meet the present needs of the Church in Lebanon and abroad.

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