Stories of Vocation - Sr Una Cullen

My eldest sister was a beautiful, intelligent and capable woman. When I was young I believed she could do almost everything. She played the piano, could act, make gorgeous cakes and could run up a dress in no time for me!  She became a Radiographer and later married and I became a Daughter of the Cross. Her husband died as a young man and she was left to bring up two little boys. Then further tragedy struck; she got multiple sclerosis.

One day my mother said to me, "You know, Moira is the real Daughter of the Cross in this family". I gulped and looked at her in amazement. "What do you mean?" I asked.  "Well just look at her life and see how she manages to live it in such difficult circumstances; she obviously has great faith and has accepted her cross and still is joyful and concerned for other people, rarely thinking of herself." What a reflection!  What an understanding and insight my mother had of what it means to be a Daughter of the Cross.

My vocation as a Daughter of the Cross is similar to that of the Christian who is living out the paschal mystery with faith and trust in the God who loves us. And that is the challenge of being a Daughter of the Cross - trying to live in a more radical way our commitment to our calling, always remembering that the Daughters of the Cross "will never separate the love of God from the love of people".

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