
On 31 January 2025, the Teresian Association will officially close the centenary of its pontifical approval in Rome. It has been a year full of events and meetings in which thanksgiving was the general theme.

On December 8, 2024, the Teresian Association Japan celebrated in Nagoya the closing of the 100th Pontifical Approval of the TA and commemorated the 65th year of the TA’s mission presence in Japan with a Thanksgiving Mass at Nanzan Catholic Church.

The Teresian Association, in Manila, celebrated the 75 years of its presence in the Philippines last December 7, 2024.

With the title “Let us strengthen communion that moves us to mission”, the President of the Teresian Association, Gregoria Ruiz, writes her Letter of the Year 2025, addressed to all members, collaborators, friends and people who share the charism of St. Pedro Poveda.

On Sunday, December 22, the Teresian Association in Kinshasa (Congo) celebrated the first centenary of its pontifical approval with splendour.
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, Archbishop of Kinshasa, marked this historic event by presiding at a solemn mass in the parish of the Sacred Heart of Gombe near the headquarters of the TA in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Last November 2024, the Zbierski Library at Bethlehem University was the setting for a truly unforgettable event: the launch of the book The Tapestry of My Life’s Journey, written by Elaine J. Rumman. Elizabeth D´Souza, Library Director and TA member reports.

The Teresian Association is launching a training activity that will take place online during 2025 aimed at members, collaborators, friends... people interested in accompanying the various family situations. Workshops begin in March and end in October, conducted in Spanish and English.





