Sr. de Lellis
I entered because I had a very strong conviction that this was what God wanted
me to do with my life. I couldn’t shake it off. I couldn’t talk Him
out of it.
My mother died when I was four and half. That had a lot to
do with making me the kind of person I am today. It made me
more self-sufficient and independent. My father’s mother
reared us. She was a great woman of prayer. My father believed
religion was women’s business. He had no objection to
it, but he saw it as women’s job to drag him into heaven ...
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Sr. Marie Ryan
I’m the eldest in my family, with three brothers. Born in West Cork,
I went to primary school there. Even though it was my mother who taught us
prayers and prepared us for the sacraments, my Dad had a deep relationship
with God. I remember him – out in the field – standing when he’d
hear the Angelus bell from the nearby Church and praying quietly. He wasn’t
preaching or teaching. Just practicing what he believed in. That profoundly
affected me ...
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