It is with deep joy that we share with you this great news; Sr. Idília Maria Moreira G. Carneiro has been elected as the new Superior General of our Congregation for the period 2024-30.
Sister Idília Maria Moreira G. Carneiro was born in Mozambique in 1966 and joined the Congregation of the Sisters Hospitallers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 1984. She has a degree in Social Work from the Higher Institute of Social and Political Sciences in Lisbon. She has a Master’s Degree in Spirituality and Ethics in Health and a Postgraduate Degree in Human Resources Management.
Her hospital experience has been mainly in the field of management and accompaniment of the hospital mission and in the animation of the Province and Communities. In addition, she has served as Managing Director of the Bom Jesus Health Centre in Braga, and as Provincial Vicar, coordinating the Province’s Centres and the Hospitaller Mission area.
“The community of sisters, after a process of discernment, elected me as Superior General. And still with mixed feelings within me, I would like to thank you for your prayers, for your friendly presence throughout this time of the Chapter and, above all, for continuing to entrust to God this journey which, as a congregation, as a Hospitaller family, we are making”, she said with emotion as she addressed her first words to the Hospitaller community.
“We continue to count on your prayers so that the hospitality we carry within us grows and becomes a word of hope and a gesture of service to all the most fragile people, in particular those suffering from mental illness. Welcome and we count on you and on your prayer and dedication” she added.
With a loving dedication to the service of the mentally ill, Sr. Idília develops her vocation to the full with the confidence that hospitality is a call from Jesus Himself to find His face in the face of the most needy and discarded of society.
On this occasion, we would also like to thank Sister Anabela for her 12 years of service to the Congregation and to the Hospitaller Family.
A new stage begins for our Hospitaller Family, but always remembering and embracing the path that brought us to this moment. May our founders Saint Benedict Menni, the Venerable María Josefa Recio and María Angustias Giménez Vera intercede for our new superior, so that she may know how to abandon herself to God’s will, listen to his voice, clothed in Mercy, and know how to accompany us in our work, always in favour of suffering humanity.
If you would like to know a little more about our new Superior, take a look at this interview we conducted with her before the General Chapter https://hospitalarias.org/en/testimony-of-sr-idilia/
