Visit with Sisters of Life

On Friday May 22nd,

 we went to New York City

 to volunteer at the 

Sisters of Life convent

Picture with the Sisters of Life at the end of our visit with them in front of their convent. 

What do the Sisters of Life do?

"The Sisters of Life is a contemplative / active religious community of women founded in 1991 by John Cardinal O’Connor for the protection and enhancement of the sacredness of every human life. Like all religious communities, we take the three traditional vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. We also are consecrated under a special, fourth vow to protect and enhance the sacredness of human life. Reverence and gratitude for the unique and unrepeatable gift of each human life made in the image and likeness of God fuels the prayer of each Sister, our first mission in building the Kingdom of God and the “Culture of Life.” It also provides the starting point for our interactions with others, especially relationships in community between our 80 Sisters (who come from across the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland, Australia and Spain), and in our apostolates" (http://www.sistersoflife.org). 

John Cardinal O'Connor

To get to their location in NYC, we took the Path and then the Subway and walked the rest of the way. Once at their convent, we helped them clean up a bit their gardens, which I could sincerely say was quite simple yet at the end of the day, was fulfilling. 

Wei and Hector on the subway on the way to the Sisters of Life convent.

After our work in the garden, we stepped inside to pray the rosary and daytime prayer with them. Once we finished praying we had lunch with them. During lunch, the sisters spoke to us about how they found their vocation. They mentioned how they opened a new convent in Denver, Colorado. Which by the way is where I'm from, well not necessarily, yet close enough. 

Picture with Archbishop Aquila of Denver in 2013 

While at lunch Wei stepped outside and went to go and buy flowers and steak to give to the sisters. They were very grateful for the small gift from Wei. 

This is our class with the Sister of Life in front of an image of our Lady of Guadalupe at the Sister of Life convent. The flowers that you can barely see are the ones Wei bought for them.

I could sincerely say that by the end of the day I was truly fulfilled, despite how small the work seemed to be. I was thinking about it and compared to the work I did and how I felt it was most definitely not proportional.