Schools that educate in Mother Candida’s way integrate the Global Education Pact into their educational project
Last May, on the occasion of World Catholic Education Day 2026, we Daughters of Jesus renewed our commitment to an education that evangelizes and transforms, that puts the person at the center and builds a more just and fraternal world. That article spoke of constellations, light and hope. Today we want to show how this light takes concrete form in the schools that educate in the way of Mother Candida, through a shared path around the Global Education Pact.
A road that comes to life
Over the past few years, the network of schools that educate in Mother Candida’s way has been on a committed and profound journey around the Global Education Pact (GEP). What began as a gesture of adhesion has now become a living movement, visible in concrete projects that have an impact on the school itself and its surroundings.
The international meeting of educators on April 25-27, 2024 helped to deepen our spirituality and identity as defined in Our Own Way of Educating. The re-reading and reflection of this congregational document from the perspective of the objectives of the Global Education Pact was enlightening and motivating. In June of that same year, 82% of the centers expressed their adherence to the PEG. From that moment on, steps have continued to be taken to implement the 7 objectives.
A call that guides us
This stage of deployment coincides fully with the Determination of General Congregation XIX, 24 , which invites us to take care of our apostolic presences so that they may be spaces of evangelization and agents of social transformation, where “Our Own Way of Educating” is brought to life.
GC XIX reminds us that our apostolic presences must evangelize and transform. The path of the Global Education Pact is being an opportunity to renew that mission, to strengthen the educational identity in schools that educate according to the way of Mother Candida and to respond, with creativity and hope, to the challenges of today’s world.
An educational constellation with history
If we look at the history of the Congregation, it is easy to affirm with Pope Leo XIV that the history of Catholic education is the history of the Spirit at work.1. The Gospel has generated educational constellations and, to these we can add the one initiated by St. Candida on January 1, 1874 in Salamanca, humble and strong experiences and, at the same time, capable of reading the times, of guarding the unity between faith and reason, between thought and life, between knowledge and justice. They have been, for many generations of students and continue to be, a beacon in the night and hope for a better future.
A way of being in school
Today we can say that the PEG is not only a signed commitment, but a way of being in school, a way of looking at each person, a commitment to a more just and fraternal future. Over the next few months we will be publishing projects that demonstrate this commitment to the PEG in our schools. Steps full of life and creativity that show that education is an act of love, hope and responsibility that unites different generations.
- Pope Leo XIX (2025), Apostolic Letter, Designing New Maps of Hope, 1.2, 2.1
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