Lisa Nguyễn
I was having a conversation with my brother and he made a comment about how he thought that I would be happy as a Sister. That comment planted a seed in my heart, so I started to discern religious life. By this time, I had recently graduated from university and was given a promotion at […]
Jacob Moylan
From the time my 9th-grade classmates used their newfound knowledge of world history to strike at the basis of my Catholic faith, I found myself wanting for a deeper understanding of God’s role in our world. From then on over the years of personally challenging the faith, I have found only more reason to believe […]
Fr. Matthew Pajor, SCh
My name is Matthew Pajor. I was born in 1996 in Chicago to Jadwiga and Bogdan Pajor, immigrants from Poland. My dad arrived in the United States in 1987, and my mom followed him in 1992. I grew up in the Chicago suburbs where faith was a central part of my upbringing. I was baptized […]
Sarah Yurgelaitis
My name is Sarah Yurgelaitis. I am a cradle Catholic and I have always loved my Faith, although for many years it was more in my head and an ideology or a moral code rather than in my heart as a relationship with a Person as it is meant to be. My mom was not […]
Mary Ann Christina Hastie
I was not raised Catholic and my parents were both of non-practicing Protestant backgrounds. When I was a very small child I would attend a Seventh Day Adventist Church with my Grandma. By the time I was six, Grandma became too frail to bring me to Church so I stopped going with her, but I […]
Kristin Foresman
The earliest memory I have of the first inklings of a call to religious life was in high school or college when a few people here and there mentioned or wondered about religious life for me. A priest in Confession even mentioned it one time. These encounters poked something in my heart and piqued my curiosity at the idea, […]
Sister Therese Michael
My journey of discerning becoming a religious sister began in 2019, the summer after I graduated high school. It was at a Steubenville East conference in Lowell, MA. Sister Miriam James asked the women in the room to quiet their hearts and to ask Jesus if He was calling us to be a religious sister. […]
Cam O’Meara
My name is Cam O’Meara, and I grew up in a suburban town in central Connecticut with my mom, dad, younger brother, and younger sister. I enjoy spending time with family and friends, playing baseball, watching the Red Sox, running, playing violin, and going to the beach on vacation. I was raised Catholic and was […]
Ryan Box
I genuinely believe that even now, at the age of 22, my life is a testament that our Lord Jesus is always and has always been perusing us in love from the very first moment we were born. While I was unaware of His Presence for most of my life, I am so grateful for […]
Thuy Ngan Tran
There are two events that I can confidently say have changed my life completely, unexpectedly, and most wonderfully. The first was Come and See 2016 with the sisters of the Lovers of the Holy Cross, Los Angeles (LHC-LA). The second happened six years later. Prior to attending Come and See, I was a lukewarm Catholic. […]