Run for a Nun 5K!

We are so excited to be having our first 5K walk/run fundraiser "Run for a Nun" on May 31st’; with all the proceeds of the 5K going 100% towards the education fund of our young women and sisters in initial formation.

Our religious vocation is a gift of grace and our response to God’s call, that soft whisper to our soul and we have been abundantly blessed in our community to currently have 20 young women in different stages of initial formation: 1 transfer, 9 in temporary profession, 4 in the novitiate and 6 in the postulancy; with several others in the application process to beginning their journey with us this fall.

“Our name Sisters of Christian Charity, Daughters of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Immaculate Conception expresses our life’s purpose: to glorify God by letting the love of Christ so permeate and fill us that it flows over to love of others in our service of the Church; as Mother Pauline our foundress tells us: “We should have an inexpressibly great heart, with nothing in it but love.'"

One of Mother Pauline’s greatest desires was that “her Sisters be one heart and one soul” and that bonded by our shared Eucharist we celebrate and appreciate diversity of language and culture. We have each been drawn to our community by our love for the Eucharist which “is a distinctive mark of our congregation and the source of its joyous, youthful enthusiasm and vigor”. Currently those of us in initial formation are enjoying the gifts that come from living, learning and growing in such an environment as we represent 6 countries: The United States, Kenya, Costa Rica, Vietnam, South Korea and the Philippines.

We hope to see you at the 5K ! Thank you in advance for any help and support you may give us with our “Run for a Nun” and ask that you keep us in your prayers as we continue to say our daily YES to God’s will for our lives.

For further information on the 5K, on how to be a sponsor or different ways to donate please visit our website at www.runforanun.com.

Sr. Sophia Marie

"Yes! The vocation to serve Christ alone in his Church is an inestimable gift of the divine goodness, a gift to implore with insistence and trusting humility. The Christian must be always more open to this gift, careful not to waste 'the time of grace' and 'the time of visitation."

St. John Paul II