Sometimes if may seem that a vocation is a “strange illness”. You feel an attraction towards the things of God, a calling from the Lord to follow Him more closely. We will try to identify some “symptoms” of a vocation by analysing the calls of Andrew and John who were amongst the first called to […]
It is important to highlight the fact that the way we often speak about “becoming a Sister” is mistaken. It is rare that someone sets out to “become” a Sister in the same way that they become a teacher or an accountant. It is rare that someone sets out to consecrate themselves to God (to set […]
Jesus asked that the Feast of the Divine Mercy be preceded by a Novena to the Divine Mercy which would begin on Good Friday. He gave St. Faustina an intention to pray for on each day of the Novena:”On each day of the novena you will bring to My heart a different group of souls […]
After completing my studies I started my career but after a few years I found myself unemployed. The loss of the career that I had worked so hard to achieve caused a great crisis in my life. With great determination I decided to take further studies so that I could find work. Every day I attended Mass, […]
From when I was a young girl, I felt a strange and indefinable sensation that something was missing in my life. Even in the most joyful moments of my life I felt this sensation though I didn’t understand why. I suffered because I thought it was strange and ‘abnormal’. When I graduated, my professors predicted […]
Interview with Sr M. Rebecca by Claudio Tanturri ‘I was a treble voice in the Rai Choir as a young girl, then I studied at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome where I received a diploma in Operatic singing. I also had the experience as a singer of pop music for “Four and Five […]
I always knew I loved the Lord! I felt that God had ‘something’ for me to do from an early age. The prospect of the Religious life was ‘definitely not for me!’ Although I loved the Lord intensely I was frightened to ever seriously explore what it may mean and besides I could never leave […]
The little word that is more valuable to God than any other is “YES”! God pronounced His “YES” to man in the silence of eternity. Adam and Eve said their “no” to God through the confusion and deceit of the devil. To say “NO” to God’s love means that we will live far away from […]
‘All things work for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose’ (cf Rm 8:28) It is with this certainty that one must pray to the Lord to ask Him; ‘Lord, what do you want me to do? If this happens in my life, or this other thing what do […]
Love of the Holy Father After the Holy Eucharist and the Immaculate Virgin Mary, our ‘third white love’, to which the Virgin of Revelation referred to on the 12th April 1947, is the Holy Father. It is the third fundamental column of the Catholic Faith, and without it no-one can truly refer to themselves as […]