Birth Place: Manila, Philippines
First Profession: 28 May 1995
Final Profession: 12 May 2001
Mission Experiences: Rome, USA
Why
did you become a nun?
As a teenager, I
always wondered what my mission in life is.
After I decided to attend the Vocation Search-in of the Missionary
Benedictine Sisters in Manila in 1991, I became more aware of the religious
life and felt a deep yearning to be one of them, that is, to be a Missionary
Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing, and the rest, as they say, is history!
What has been your most rewarding
experience as a MBS?
Witnessing the
graduation of the college students I taught as a Junior Sister; knowing and sharing with the
difficulties that some of them went through as students who were financially
hard-up but still tried their level-best to finish their studies.
Talk about foreign mission
experience
I used to view being
chosen and going to the foreign mission as just for the chosen few, but when I
have personally experienced it, I realized that it was not so. The foreign mission experience is:
-
an
opportunity to grow in all aspects of my personhood as a religious and as a
Christian, as well, with God as my focus;
-
discovering
and knowing that God dwells in a particular culture which has its own beliefs
and traditions very much different from mine, and continue believing that God
is actually present there;
-
being
stretched at all sides and sharing your gifts which you did not know existed.
What would you say to
those discerning commitment to religious life?
As we do not really
know what lies ahead and see what is on the other side of the ocean unless we
take the risk, I would say, continue to pray and listen to what God is telling
you and take the plunge into the unknown!
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