A significant question was asked on July 26th during the first profession ceremony of Sr. Chiara Marie of Jesus, True Light. Father asked: ”What do you ask of God and of His Church?” And our Sister responded: ”I ask for God’s Love and a share in the life of this religious community.” This succinct dialogue between the priest and the novice summarizes the entire vocation of the nun.
A religious vocation is simply a life long response to God’s gratuitous Love. And as father quoted in the profession homily, “the only real love is God’s love”. The consecrated religious truly participates in this love through her total gift of self to Christ and His Church.
Our Holy Mother Clare, who our sister is happily named after, eloquently confirms this reality which sister embraced more deeply at profession:We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. If we love nothing, we become nothing. Imitation is not a literal mimicking of Christ, rather it means becoming the image of the beloved, an image disclosed through transformation. This means we are to become vessels of God’s compassionate love for others.
Following the profession Mass was the clothing ceremony of Genevieve Rose. Both ceremonies marked the beginning and end of a phase in religious life. For Sr. Chiara Marie, professing the Evangelical Counsels of poverty, chastity, and obedience for the first time, pronounced publicly her resolve to radically conform herself to Christ. For Genevieve Rose a visible transformation took place as she was invested with the PCPA habit
and given a new name as signs of her desire to become a new creation in Christ in preparation for the day when she too will profess vows. The new name conferred on Genevieve Rose, is…Sr. Marie St. Francis of the Crucified One. The name was received with joyful tears! To be named after our holy Father Francis can only mean great things!
We congratulate our two sisters for their generosity in continuing to respond to Christ’s loving invitation to ‘follow Him’ in the religious life.
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DEAREST SISTERS,
THANK YOU FOR YOUR YES TO GOD. MY LOVE AND PRAYERS AS YOU EACH CONTINUE YOUR HOLY JOURNEY.
YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH YOUR SACRIFICES MEAN TO A WORLD SO DESPERATELY IN NEED OF PRAYERS.
NEVER THINK THAT YOU ARE FORGOTTEN JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT SEEN.YOUR PRESENCE IS ALWAYS KNOWN.
Are Sisters Chiara Marie and Marie St. Francis siblings?
If so, then this is doubly joyful!
Congratulations to Sister Chiara Marie on her First Vows, and to Sister Marie St. Francis on her Investment!
Barb in NY
Congrats sisters! Thank you both for your yes! You look so beautiful in your new habits! May God bless you now and always! Love y’all!——-
Tori Schmidt…a.k.a…Sr. Celine’s sister! 
May God Bless your live’s in comparison to the Hope, Love and Truth that you inbody, May you know all the days of your lives you are loved by us the Laity.
I just love to read about each sister as she takes the steps to becoming a totally professed nun! What a humbling experience, and you can see the deep love in each sister’s face as they take their vows. I wish all of you the greatest of God’s blessins, and may Our Holy Mother smile down on you as you give yourselves totally to her Son.
Love in Christ,
Peggy
I am so happy for you both sisters,and I am praying for both of you as you give yourself to god. I am hoping I will be able to join you real soon, Bless all of you, May God be with you always.
What a beautiful it must of been to see Sr. Chiara of her first vows, and Sr. Marie St. Francis. May they continue with their journey to Jesus and become a true Bride of Christ. My love and prayers are with them.
DEAR SISTERS, YOUR LOVE FOR OUR LORD IS THE LIGHT THAT SHINES FOR ALL WHO FOLLOW OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.
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