Being with God,
Being for the World,
as Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters
Sister Mary Lucia professed her first vows in Germany in 1954. She served her novitiate in Holland and then came to the United States in 1956. She has lived in Philadelphia, St. Louis, Austin and Corpus Christi, Tx. and Lincoln.
She said she was always attracted to the Blessed Sacrament, but she did not know that there were sisters who adored the Blessed Sacrament perpetually. She said she prayed much as she pursued her vocation. A priest told her, “Never pass a church without stopping in.”
She took his advice.
With many visits to churches and much time in prayer, she came to realize God was really calling her and it was not just her own thoughts.
After she had made a novena, a religious magazine which featured an article about the Pink Sisters fell into her hands. She opened to the article where there was a picture of the Pink Sisters’ convent in St. Louis and an address to contact the sisters.
She wrote them and asked to see a book about the order, which had been mentioned in the article. Most copies of the book had been destroyed during World War II, but the sisters loaned her the book from their personal library, their only copy.
From then on, Sister Mary Lucia said, everything fell into place. Sister Mary Lucia entered the convent in May 1951.
She said she has not doubted her vocation or regretted it for a moment. She said she thanks God for the dark times as well as the sunshine, because even the dark moments bring her closer to Him.
“It is not always sunshine, but even in the dark, I know I am where God wants me to be,” she said. “I thank God for every minute I can live in the convent.”