“I discovered Christianity when I enrolled in a Catholic high school when I was sixteen. I chose the school because I wanted to learn English from the sisters who taught there. But the Lord had other plans for me…” Sr. Teresia Makiko Inoue My name is Teresia Makiko Inoue and I am Japanese. I entered… Read more »
There is a legend regarding how God created the nations on earth. After forming out of clay immense China, India and all the other huge land masses, he saw that some bits of clay still clung to his hands. When he shook off these fragments, they fell into the Pacific Ocean and formed 7,107 islands,… Read more »
But talking about myself to others is not the same thing. My self-image, my privacy, my fears and weaknesses, my secrets, my talents and even my awareness that God is truly at work in me all pose obstacles to this. To put it simply, I don’t like to talk about myself to others, but since… Read more »
I was asked to write the story of my vocation at a moment in which one of the main players in that story just passed to eternity – Sr. Maria Pia Marcazzan, who, with great skill and vivacity, accompanied my whole vocational journey. The first time I stepped into the FSP book center in Udine,… Read more »
The fifth daughter of Celeste and Sabino Duarte, I was born on 18 June 1949 in a littletown on the slopes of the Monchique Hills, a very beautiful corner of Portugal. Our family was a big one–seven children, plus many cousins living in the same area. Numerous though we were, my father often said that… Read more »
What can I say? I will try to make a kind of summary of this long stretch of my life. 1941: I am a normal teenager. I live in a small town in southern Lombardy, Italy. I am 18 years old, caught up in the things going on in my family, school, Catholic Action group,… Read more »
Today, many years later, I still remember the beautiful smile of the Daughter of St. Paul who answered my timid knock on the door of their residence…. I had long admired a similar smile in the book, The Biography of Sr. Laurence, which a friend of mine had given me. She had purchased it by… Read more »
My name is Olga Massango and I am the first Daughter of St. Paul to enter our Institute from Mozambique. I was born in Maputo in 1964, the oldest of ten children. My father, José, is a tailor, and my mother, Maria, is a homemaker. In spite of their poverty, my parents saw to it… Read more »
Valeria is my baptismal name. I was a happy child, joyful and fun-loving with friends at home, in the country atmosphere of Farfengo, a small town in the province of Brescia (Italy). At the age of 20 I was ready and willing to get engaged to the best boy in town: Gino, an excellent singer… Read more »
To recount my vocation story: at first this seemed to be a very simple request…but as soon as I sat down in front of the computer keyboard, I discovered that the task wasn’t as easy as it had seemed! The first problem I ran into was that I realized the Lord had not called me… Read more »
