V.J.E.
During National Vocation Awareness Week we are featuring the story behind the religious names of our five newly professed sisters. Today we want share with you the story behind the name of Sr. Amanda Lucia Marie of the Love of God Hartwell, HMSS.
Sr. Lucia Marie, HMSS grew up in Florida with her parents and six siblings. Throughout her childhood, she was inspired by the many faithful Catholics who surrounded her and by reading the lives of the saints. Sr. Lucia Marie, HMSS felt the call to religious life near the end of high school, and after prayer, discernment, and finishing college, was finally able to respond with full freedom to the call of Christ.
Prayer for Mercedarian Vocations: O Mary, Mother of Christ the Eternal High Priest, and Mother of the Church, we come to you and humbly ask you to awaken new religious vocations for the service of the people of God, especially to the Mercedarian family. Strengthen our Catholic homes in faith which bears fruit; so that disciples and witnesses of your Son may be harvested from them. Touch the hearts of our young people, invite and bring them to the Heart of Jesus. May they grow in his warmth and in the mystery of total self-giving in service of the Gospel. Mother of Mercy, our Mother, bless us with holy vocations to the religious life and priesthood. Amen.
To Evangelize with Mary in the Light of the Eucharist