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Hit the refresh button on your browser if the buttons here do not show up.  Sr. Marie Therese of the Divine Child Jesus, PCPA Entered at age 18 on October 9th, 2003 "Come back in 15 years," said Mother Angelica to a little 3 year old girl in her lap dressed as a Nun.Since my dad worked for EWTN, I grew up around Mother and her community of Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration. I early dreamed of being a Nun myself one day. I begged my mom to sew me a mini habit which I proudly wore to Mass. I continued in this fervent desire to be all his until I was 14.By that time, I definitely had no inclination to do anything so un-cool as becoming a Nun. I had actually stopped really thinking of God at all. I went to Mass and said the Rosary with my family, but I was merely going through the motions. I began looking in all the wrong places to fill up that 'God-shaped' hole in my heart. Wanting more than anything else for someone to love me completely, I looked to get this total love from a creature. I didn't realize that the love I was searching for was to be found only in Love Himself. After a couple years of wandering and feeling ever more lost and empty, the Lord suddenly filled me with the grace of conversion during New Year's Mass, when I was 17. I knew without a doubt His infinite Love for me and His desire for my love in return. In a shock I saw that all of those worldly pleasures I held so dear were nothing! The One and Only One who matters I had been ignoring all this time!I began once again living a true Christian life--with God in first place. I had my mind set on getting married and raising a family, but something kept nagging me during the next year that wouldn't leave me in peace. As I was falling more and more in love with God, I knew I wanted to give myself completely to Him in the religious life.Embarking on a journey of baby steps, I ended up entering St. Joseph Monastery in Portsmouth, in 2003. Truly, "His Mercy endures for ever"!!!!  |
