Re-Igniting and Navigating the Future Together Amid Covid

The year 2022 marks SPUDAA-NA's 16th anniversary, paving the way towards a significant celebration of a dozen and a half years at the next biennial in 2024. We call upon each and every Paulinian and associate, affiliate, and honorary member in North America and in other countries outside the Philippines, to step up and help take "the passion" that lit a small corner of the southeast, USA in 2006. It blazed across the mid west, the west coast, the east coast, back to the west, then "re-ignited" back to the mid west, and then back to a 3rd return to the west only to be stopped on its track with the covid-19 pandemic that practically put a stop to everything as we know it.

Looking back at the 3rd biennial back in Chicago, SPUDAA-NA reached its first significant milestone in 2016 - a decade of growth and development, especially in terms of project support. We can all look back with pride since much has been accomplished. The future will always pose a challenge, but we all know that we can do better and more. We need each and everyone's input to take SPUDAA-NA through to the next decade. With the inspiring presence and message from Sr. Joseline Lasala, SPC and President of SPUD, and from Nella Ramos Ibarra, SPUD's Alumni Officer,  the 4th Biennial in Las Vegas was an exciting setting to continue the work of navigating the future and sharing the vision.

So now, we are, indeed, facing the challenge of re-igniting the "Paulinian Spirit" as we continue to navigate amid the pandemic. SPUDAA-NA is at a crossroad, so what's next? Let's put our heads together and forge ahead — that's vintage Paulinian. 

Caritas Christi Urget Nos!