The Missionary Oblate Sisters of the Sacred Heart and Mary Immaculate (MO) and the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions (RNDM: the intersection of education, spirituality, the politics of life, faith and language in the Canadian prairies, 1898-1930

• Autores: Rosa Bruno-Jofré
• Localización: Paedagogica Historica: International journal of the history of education, ISSN 0030-9230, Vol. 49, Nº. Extra 4, 2013 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Catholic teaching congregations and synthetic configurations: building identity through pedagogy and spirituality across national boundaries and cultures), págs. 471-493
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This article analyses the educational work of two teaching Congregations - Les Missionnaires Oblates du Sacré-Coeur et de Marie Immaculée (The Missionary Oblate Sisters of the Sacred Heart and Mary Immaculate/ MO) and the Religieuses de Notre Dame de Missions (Sisters of Our Lady of Missions/ RNDM) - on the Canadian prairies between 1898 and 1930. It explores the two Congregations' understandings of mission and education and their spirituality in terms of the Sisters' ways of relating to God and in light of their work, having in mind the theological parameters and values set by the authority of the Catholic church, as well as the intersections of the Sisters' ministry with the cultural and political life in the communities. Particular attention is given to the Franco-Manitoban communities where education, language and faith intertwined. The article considers that the Sisters lived within a linguistic mental space with boundaries which were part of their existential reality, and operated within a semantic field that helped them make sense of and bridge their sometimes disparate worlds.