The Sisters Corner

Christmas is already here and we can experience God’s love coming into our lives in so many ways. Jesus wants to come to us in the image of a little child, probably because it is so easy to receive the love of a little child!! We don’t put any barrier for receiving or for giving back this love.

How fast the time goes by and we can’t believe it is almost Christmas! As always, these days are full of many activities. And sometimes it can happenthat we finish Advent and we can see that our hearts are not as prepared as we would want them to be, but God is merciful and always gives us a newchance to come back and be with Him.

Each week we are closer to His coming! ...and the joy starts to grow!! The third candle of our advent wreath is lite now. We want to continue sharing with you some of our traditions during this third week of Advent.

Each week of Advent we have more and more the experience of how close the coming of Jesus is. As probably all of you do, we also decorate our houses with a nativity, with the Christmas tree and improving our decorations each week that pass, expressing our hope and joy, knowing that Jesus is closer now.

Today we start Advent. And you probably do different activities with your family to prepare your hearts to receive more Jesus for Christmas. We would like to share with you one of the ways that our community participates in Advent.

“Give thanks to the Lord for He is good, His love endures forever.” (Psalm 136) Some days ago we celebrated Thanksgiving Day, a beautiful holiday that helps us to remember the importance of being grateful everyday of our lives for everything we receive.

This is our second year celebrating Thanksgiving Day with you. In our countries, we don’t have an exactly holiday dedicated to giving thanks but we see the beautiful value to be aware of the many gifts we received from God, through our community, family, friends and His many other details.

Today the Lord invites us to give ourselves to Him and to others with a generous heart. How many examples can we find of this in scripture and in the lives of many we know that are giving their lives to the Lord and for others with so much love?

Some days ago we celebrated All Saints Day, a very special day for all the Church to celebrate!! As Servants of the Plan we see holiness as avocation that can be lived by everyone, not by doing extraordinary things but as giving ourselves to God, giving Him glory, with every ordinary moment thatGod gives us, to love Him and others.

We can’t believe that it’s been two years since we arrived in the U.S. We are grateful for the many blessings that we have received from God since we started this adventure of God’s Plan!!

All of us, lay and consecrated people, are called to Holiness and to follow Jesus in very different ways. We as Servants of the Plan of God, listened to His Call in a specific moment of our lives. Actually, God was calling us many times before we answered. But there is a special moment where we recognized His voice calling us to follow Him to be his Servants: some of us when we were 15, 18, 25 years old or more and each one, with a different story to tell.

Working with college students has been a wonderful experience for me during my time in Arizona. It makes me so happy to see the Lord working in the heart of each student specially when we have been on Retreats or Mission Trips.

It is a strong moment for them to have an encounter with Jesus and with the beautiful heart that the Lord has given them. ASU is one of the largest universities in the US and there is a need for our Lord to be very visible.