Kristin Peters, Fransican Sisters of Perpetual Adoration

God’s spirit has spoken and drawn me through various life experiences into religious life.
Primarily, I think I have been drawn because I was surrounded by praying people throughout my life. Prayer was their witness to intimacy and dependence upon God and it awoke my own soul’s desire. The routine of the prayer of the rosary and Sunday Mass in my family nurtured the awareness that God is a dependable presence. God’s immanence, on the other hand, was revealed one day visiting my grandma in Ireland as a child. The bells of the church next door began to toll and my grandmother stopped working in the kitchen and began to pray the words of the Angelus. I remember noticing
her and watched as she went and sat in the rocking chair and continued her prayer, “…Hail Mary, mother of God….” I went and bent at her knee “…and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.” I remember being surprised and I remember movement
in my heart as I witnessed my grandma’s response to the tolling bells. Now I think — the
immanence of the incarnation — how God surprises us! How God breaks into our daily reality to reveal his love and promise. Christ is ever ready to be born in our hearts and in the world.

In the months that I have joined the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, I have been moved by the invitation to listen to God speaking in my own heart and responding to this call. In the practice of perpetual adoration I recognize the same message. Listen to love speaking and respond to this invitation. In love I will become more whole and I will be able to share the gifts of this transformation with the world around me. The Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration will receive me as a novice July 21, 2008.