The way I live religious life today is different from the way I lived it when I first entered. What changes have you experienced in living religious life from the time you first entered until now? I fell more deeply in love with the congregation’s history, spirit, heroes and heroines.
After graduation, we joined 14 other international junior sisters at our motherhouse in Paris. Sister Mary Gertrude asked the superior general if I could go along with Sister Maureen. At that time, it was customary that sisters from the East Coast would go to Paris for the year of preparation for perpetual vows. A Sacred Hearts Sister from the East Coast, Sister Maureen, joined our community for studies. Regina Pacis House of Studies was opened for sisters of temporary vows going to Chaminade College for their studies. I confidently answered her, “Yes, I want to become a Sacred Hearts Sister.” What are some events that stand out for you in your early formation? In my senior year, Sister Mary Rose asked me if I had ever thought about becoming a sister. My relationship with Jesus began to grow. I loved saying the Mass prayers and reading the short stories about the saints on feast days. They bought me a beautiful Saint Andrew Daily Missal. When my parents asked what I wanted for Christmas, I asked for the book that the sisters had - a missal.
The beauty of the chapel, the prayer and singing of the sisters enthralled us along with the sisters in red mantles replacing each other at adoration. Sister Katherine Francis: After we transferred to the Academy, my sister and I caught the bus early to join the sisters for the daily 6:30 a.m. Sister Vandana: Sister, can you tell me how your vocation began? But they were proud to be “little martyrs.” The whole experience of preparing for and making her First Communion left a profound religious impression on her. Whenever they went to morning Mass on a holy day of obligation, they got to school late and the other children would laugh at them.
Theresa Church for religious instruction. Once a week after school, she and her sister Leah would walk about 30 minutes to and from St. Interviewed by Sister Vandana Narayan, SSCCīefore going to Sacred Hearts Academy, Sister Katherine Francis attended public school.
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