My vocation in Holy Cross

by Sister Isabel Cristina Camacho Torres

God calls us in many different ways, and in great simplicity he invites us to deepen our relationship with him. I can remember leaving my catechetical class one day when a young woman invited me to visit the Sisters of the Holy Cross and get to know them. Being with these sisters gave me the chance to encounter a deep and inexhaustible well of spirituality.

Sharing with the sisters was an opportunity to live a strong and profound experience of God in my life. This encounter answered my desire to seek God in a special way and placed me in the holy disposition of total commitment to the service of God’s people in a kingdom of justice and love.

On this path God becomes present in my life, and every action of the day that before seemed useless and dead is now alive. I am generating new life with and through God’s creative grace, like the Samaritan woman at the well, who dropped everything to run through her village announcing to all that Jesus is the fountain that gives water to slake the thirst of all. This encounter of the Samaritan woman was a joyous one and my daily encounter with Jesus, the fountain of life, disposes me to live in this joy.

I believe in fraternal love and am a companion on the road of life with my Holy Cross sisters, living together and announcing the love of Jesus as it enriches us all.

I thank God for bringing me into contact with these religious women, who permit me to find my way in my vocation as I grow in my spiritual life. It is Jesus who has the wisdom to call us, to seduce us, to become his disciples, trusting him and his project of love.

Sister Isabel resides in São Paulo, Brazil.

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