" We will never understand the greatness of the benefit God our Lord has given us in calling us to the religious state until the day of judgement, and only then will we know what we cannot grasp at present ." Const. 94
Get to Know our Novices
1.
NAME: VERONICA DE JESUS BARRETO
AGE: 27
COUNTRY: TIMOR LESTE
MOTTO IN LIFE: I’m here only for one thing, to serve and love God,
and His people.
FAVORITE PASSAGE:
“Love your neighbor as yourself: we are as a person sometimes we say the word love to other, to love is easy to say, but sometimes very difficult to put into our life because we do not say only in our lips but important to show it in our actions ”.(Leviticus 19:17-18).
I am grateful to God for the blessings and graces that He had given to me , during the retreat in preparation for the initiation. And also I am grateful to the community for their support and challenge us through their prayer. As Jesus said” without prayer we cannot do nothing”. So prayer is the root of every vocation. During the initiation, I felt so happy , sr. Cristina Ruberte Our perfect of Apostolate presided our initiation. I was so challenge by her message where she said that novice is a time to deeply experience with the person of Christ, A time to have more intimate relationship with Christ, a time to have knowledge about yourself and the congregation. ..... Thank You Veronica Barrreto
2.
NAME: KAGITHA SOLOMON ANTON
AGE: 24
COUNTRY: SRI LANKA
MOTTO IN LIFE: For only firm to Him whom I love He has called me by name,
come and follow me I want to follow and serve in hi his people.
FAVORITE PASSAGE FROM THE BIBLE
“I alone know the plans I have for you, plans to bring you prosperity and not disaster, plans to bring about the future you hope for”. (Jeremiah 29:11)
Today in my initiation, I am very happy; and I do hope in this new stage of formation that I can experience Jesus as the center of my life and I am become part of the congregation and at the same in receiving the Constitutions for me to put into practice and live by it. Thanks be to God for everything. Kagitha
3.
5. NAME: LERMIN SIAHAAN
WHAT I AM DOING FOR CHRIST?
Jesus Christ is the center of my life. I want to follow him and to know him and to offer my life to Him, especially in my vocation in the congregation of RMICM. In my vocation I must be responsible in my everyday life as a novice. Like in prayer, any activities, and my relationship with God and relationship with my community.
It is important to serve God and to love Him and to know Him more and more. What does He want in my life? What does he want in my community? In my relationship with other people I want to serve them and to share my life for them with love and full of hope. What does Jesus want in my life I will do and what can I do for other people I will do for them. And I will say “not my want but what do you want. To love God, to serve Him, to love other people and to serve them. Lord this is me use me as you will.
FAVORITE PASSAGE: JOHN 6:68
6. NAME: TERESIA TINA SAMOSIR
AGE: 20
COUNTRY: INDONESIA
WHAT I AM DOING FOR CHRIST?
To serve and to love God with all my heart through all the people who are around me.
FAVORITE PASSAGE:
“I will never forget you or abandon you”. (Hebrews 13:5b)
7. By : Ursulla Henakin Tuan ( 2nd year novice ) , Indonesian , 22
I would like to share my this short reflection with a simple poem, The title is He is all about….
The days are passing,
The experiences are overflowing
Neither pleasant events nor unpleasant
All are going on…
Do I still love this “Vocation, a beautiful gift?”
But…
That’s what I feel, burning inside
I see, moving me
I think, changing me
I do, encourage me
I experience, make me understand little by little that life….
Should be lived in gratitude,
Nothing is useless
Nothing is to be disappointed
And I believe to whom I live for
And To Let Him to stir up my life .
Jesus….
Open my heart to stay close to you and always bear in mind that you are present in everybody. May I continue to persevere in my journey as a “New Claretian” who is able to cross the boundaries of my self and reach out to others as You did.
8. Francisca Mbawo , Indonesian, 22
NAME: MIRIAM ROSHANI XAVIER MICHAEL FERNANDO
AGE: 22
COUNTRY: SRI LANKA
MOTTO IN LIFE: Servant of the Lord
FAVORITE PASSAGE:
“I have written your name upon the palm of my hands; your walls are ever before me”. (Isaiah 49:16)
I am thankful to God and to the congregation for the gift of this vocation which later on I can proclaim His Word through this life and it was my great pleasure for me to experience this new stage of my life as a novice . and thank you for the present of sister Cristina our perfect of apostolate who presided our initiation. Thank you very much sisters for giving me this opportunity to live God’s love and to glorifying Him. Roshani.
4.
NAME: VERONICA SIM (GYU WON)
AGE: 26
COUNTRY: KOREA
MOTTO IN LIFE: Cling to Mary
FAVORITE PASSAGE:
“We know that in everything God works for the good of those who love him, whom he has called according to his plan”. (Roman 8:28)
I am so happy to enter this new stage of formation as a novice . I do hope that this formation will be a good foundation for me in order to become a Claretian Missionary sisters and also I hope I will become closer to Jesus and help me to discern my chosen vocation . Veronica Sim
I am so happy to enter this new stage of formation as a novice . I do hope that this formation will be a good foundation for me in order to become a Claretian Missionary sisters and also I hope I will become closer to Jesus and help me to discern my chosen vocation . Veronica Sim
5. NAME: LERMIN SIAHAAN
AGE: 21
COUNTRY: INDONESIA WHAT I AM DOING FOR CHRIST?
Jesus Christ is the center of my life. I want to follow him and to know him and to offer my life to Him, especially in my vocation in the congregation of RMICM. In my vocation I must be responsible in my everyday life as a novice. Like in prayer, any activities, and my relationship with God and relationship with my community. FAVORITE PASSAGE: JOHN 6:68
6. NAME: TERESIA TINA SAMOSIR
AGE: 20
COUNTRY: INDONESIA
To serve and to love God with all my heart through all the people who are around me.
FAVORITE PASSAGE:
“I will never forget you or abandon you”. (Hebrews 13:5b)
7. By : Ursulla Henakin Tuan ( 2nd year novice ) , Indonesian , 22
I would like to share my this short reflection with a simple poem, The title is He is all about….
He is All About
The days are passing,
The experiences are overflowing
Neither pleasant events nor unpleasant
All are going on…
Do I still love this “Vocation, a beautiful gift?”
Of Course!
That’s my own life
That’s my struggles
That’s my happiness, too…
What’s the special thing in living this life?
I don’t know precisely…
But…
That’s what I feel, burning inside
I see, moving me
I think, changing me
I do, encourage me
I experience, make me understand little by little that life….
Should be lived in gratitude,
Nothing is useless
Nothing is to be disappointed
And I believe to whom I live for
And To Let Him to stir up my life .
Jesus….
Open my heart to stay close to you and always bear in mind that you are present in everybody. May I continue to persevere in my journey as a “New Claretian” who is able to cross the boundaries of my self and reach out to others as You did.
THE GROUP PICTURE
