I grew up in Nueva Ecija in the Philippines and went to a high school taught by the Franciscans. I often thought about becoming a sister, but not seriously because I wanted to be a somebody...a successful career woman. I was very diligent in my studies and had as my role model a favorite teacher, a very dynamic woman. When I was in college I heard that she had become a Franciscan sister, and that startled me because she had so much to give up. I reflected a lot on that, but my ambition was still to be a successful CPA.

As I prepared to take the final CPA exam I was praying very hard to pass it. Then one day as I was kneeling before the crucifix, I felt my desire to pass the exam fading away. I found myself telling the Lord that if He would just let me work for a while, then I would enter the convent. My view of life underwent a profound change. I went ahead and took and passed the exam and went to work in an office. Advancement was rapid and I became engrossed in my work. Then one day I met one of my friends in the Franciscan order and the yearning returned.

It was as if I was being torn between the love of my work and wanting to enter the convent. A passage from the Bible kept beaming in my ear. "If today you hear His voice, harden not your heart."

I was considering entering the Franciscans when one day a friend asked if I'd like to see the "Pink Sisters." I had heard of them, but the minute I entered their chapel, I felt something different. Soon after, I wrote to the vocation director and then visited the Pink Sisters in Manila several times. It was the first time I had seen cloistered sisters and I wanted to be sure that this was the kind of life the Lord was asking me to live. Finally I mustered the courage to leave my family, my job and enter.

It was a wonderful feeling just to surrender to the Lord and feel His guidance. And then when I was asked to come to the United States, it was another challenge to my faithfulness to the Lord -- to leave my family, my country. But in accepting it, once again my relationship with the Lord deepened. Each time I accepted the challenges relying on His strength, the bond of love became stronger.

I have learned that God has called me not to an easy life, but to a life made easy by His presence. To be quiet with the Lord is to feel that deep joy, that inner peace. And that is why I pray that when other young women hear His voice, they may harden not their hearts.

Our Mission

We are a cloistered-contemplative missionary Congregation, living in community, whose members are entirely dedicated to the contemplative life in the service of perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Thus we offer intercessory prayer for the needs of all. The rose color of our habits, which we wear in honor of the Holy Spirit, symbolizes our dedication to the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity. Evangelization and the sanctification of priests are particularly remembered in our life of prayer, which includes the singing of the Liturgy of the Hours (Divine Office) in choir.

Our way of life points to the basic truth that God alone is the true center of being and the goal of all creation, that he alone can satisfy the human heart, and that every good and every success on this earth are his free gifts.

In union with the Lord, whom we follow in a life of poverty, chastity and obedience, we adore God on behalf of our brothers and sisters throughout the world, convinced that being true to our love-response in answer to God's call, our life of prayer and commitment is the best service we can contribute towards the building up of mankind in peace, justice, and love. In prayer before the Eucharistic Throne, we bring to the Lord all the needs and intentions recommended to us.