Comment Fonctionne Le Site

Sisters of Mary Reparatrix - Website –private section/community room Document for the use of the sisters of the Congregation Explanation of the Website

How to open the website Open the website through the Internet by typing www.smr.org. The first image appears with flash and enter site. If you wish to go directly to the site, click on “enter site” which appears below the picture. SMR – Sisters of Mary Reparatrix appears in three languages. Choose a language and click on it. The « menu » appears at the top of the screen beside the SMR logo: these are the titles of the content you will find in the site.

What do we find in the site when it is opened? The menu gives the different chapters in the site. When you click on one of these chapters a list appears at the side with the content of the chapter.

- SMR: Texts with pictures/ images that present the essential elements of the charism..

- Latest News: We journey on – news: the “latest news” transmitted to the public.

- Life Journey: the way in which the charism is lived: Life journey (a general presentation with a prayer), Our History (Emilie et the origins) (you can click on the coach to advance), We journey on (the stages of formation and the associates), Journey with us (the life and activities of SMR today), Links (sites to visit), Global presence (SMR presence in different countries)

-Spiritual journey: life of prayer of our mission Spiritual journey (a general presentation with a prayer) Spiritual companion (our mission of accompaniment, with the possibility, eventually, of accompaniment by email in different languages). Prayer space (to send intentions for prayer) To be Mary for Jesus (commentary on the phrase) Journey deeper (indications for going deeper)

-Creative journey: Creative journey (general presentation with a prayer) SMR Gallery (crafts and creations) Food for thought (« recipes » to live more fully all the dimensions of the Eucharist, from meals to liturgical prayer).

-SMR Community: it is the “private” section, reserved to SMR sisters. To enter : Click on Welcome in the language of your choice, or on the bird of the same colour and enter: Type the password: smr2007 - enter. Latest news (recent news which could be the same as that in the general menu) Community room (space for communication and information from the sisters) Directory (yearbook of the personnel of the congregation) Official (the monthly document sent by the general council in three languages) SMR Forum This section contains two items: - The Forum : to open a forum is to go to an area for sharing ideas. You can express an idea, ask a question, open a debate. Click on Open a new forum. Fill in the boxes (my question= the message that I want to post, my name, my email, my country). Click on open new forum. It is the text of « my question » that appears on the screen. - The Commentary: If you wish to respond to a text that appears, click on it, then on commentaries to write your reactions. The commentary does not appear on the first screen. If you wish to view the commentaries you have to click on the individual forums. Newsletter (Newsletters with SMR information from the different provinces/regions)

How is the website organised? Who has responsibility for it? The organisation of the website is divided among the following persons: 1/ Webmaster The webmaster manages the purely technical part: inserts texts and photos into the site, makes the necessary modifications in accordance with the indications given by those responsible for the maintenance of the website. Mister Luiz Da Rosa,in Rome,is our webmaster. He works under contract and is paid by the hour in accordance with the time he spends on the website.. 2/ Maintenance The “maintenance” of the website means: receive the information by email, transmit the information to the webmaster to insert it into the website, encourage the communication of articles, verify that the website is functioning well, keep the information up to date, remain in contact with the different correspondents and decide how to respond to the messages received on the website from the public. This mission was confided to Christine Zeller in July 2007 for a year. You can send texts and photos to her at her email address:: [email protected] 3/ Web team and Correspondents The creation of texts for the different chapters and their presentation in the website (colours, page layout, illustrations etc) is the responsibility of an international web team.. This team will be named shortly by the General Council..

The team will be assisted by other sisters:  Team for the annual directory : to register and keep up to date the names, identity, address, functions and photo of all the sisters of the congregation in the website directory.. Judy Frasinetti and Gerry McCullagh  Correspondents for the updating of the website : contact with the maintenance person to indicate or send up-to-date information and interesting articles from the Provinces/Regions of their language. For the present: Pauline Clarke, Elisa Calderon, Joan Pricoli, Angela Nakitende, Denise Souci. We wish to have a correspondent in each country..  Correspondents for the prayer space: to receive the requests for prayers sent directly to the website and to send them to all the communities of their language. Pauline Clarke (English), Marianne Engelhart (French), M.Lourdes Rodarte (Spanish)

4/ Translators Certain elements for the website are translated into the three languages, according to the possibilities of the persons available for this service. A text sent in the three languages is always very welcome!

The website of a congregation needs the collaboration of all. Thank you for what you are doing and will do to make it evermore actual and alive!