{"id":780,"date":"2016-04-26T21:56:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T03:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/amormisericordioso\/?page_id=780"},"modified":"2020-12-16T14:32:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T20:32:09","slug":"the-quest-for-her-vocation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.amormisericordioso.org\/en\/blessed-esperanza-of-jesus\/the-quest-for-her-vocation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Quest for Her Vocation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Quest for Her Vocation<\/h1>
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During her youth, the desire to\u00a0consecrate her entire life to her friend Jesus was growing towards maturity, and she knew the poor and needy well<\/b>. Anxious to discover God\u2019s will with respect to her life, she went to the places where people where suffering; yet the discernment was not easy. She would have liked to take care of the sick, but in a Hospital, she was surprised by the lack of interest a Sister she was accompanying manifested for a dying man. The Sister said to her,\u00a0\u201cDon\u2019t worry, your heart too will soon harden,\u201d<\/i>\u00a0and the good Josefa replied,\u00a0\u201cBefore letting my heart harden, I prefer to leave.\u201d<\/i>\u00a0And that is what she did.<\/p>\n

At age 21, she decided to take the big step\u00a0to realize the dream of her life: consecrate herself to God in religious life<\/b>. She went off on 15 October, feast of Saint Theresa of Avila.\u00a0\u201c\u2026 I left my parents\u2019 home with the great desire to be a saint, to become a little like Saint Theresa\u2026 who was not afraid of anything\u2026 I wanted to be like her and, so, I left the house on that day, leaving my mother on the bed of suffering without the hope of seeing her again\u201d<\/i>\u00a0(Exhor.15.10.65).<\/p>\n

In Villena (Alicante), she entered the last and poor convent of the Daughters of Calvary, which was already on its way to extinction. There,\u00a0she received, at the moment of her religious profession, the name Esperanza<\/b>(Hope). Shortly after this, the Daughters of Calvary were incorporated into the Institute of the Claretian Missionaries, dedicated to teaching. Esperanza also became a member of this Institute, in which she made her perpetual profession.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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