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. Katie Amata Krantz, HMSS.
Sr. Katie Amata is from West Bend, WI and is the youngest of three children in her family. She has been so blessed to have grown up learning to love and grow in her Catholic faith, and has always heard a call to live for more than the world can offer. After graduating from college and serving in volunteer ministry, she has been given the opportunity to respond to the call of Christ and pursue Him with all of her heart through a religious vocation.
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