SISTER OF THE LOVE OF GOD

Sister of the Love of God –  Sister María Iluminada de los Santos, R.A.D.                                                                                             Hermana del Amor de Dios                                                                         “El Amor de Dios hace sabios y santos.”  –  “The Love of God makes wise and holy people.”                                                 “The love of God pushes us, urges us”

Founder:  Venerable Jerónimo Mariano Usera y Alarcón  (“Apostle of the Antilles”)

Place:  Toro, Zamora, Spain

Year:  1864 A.D.

Her Charism:  This Sister’s joy is to be a faithful woman in following Jesus, to live happily in dedication to evangelization, and to savor and celebrate with others this Love that God gives to her.  Called by the cry of evangelization and moved by the Holy Spirit, the love of Christ urges her to form and educate children and youth for the love of God and for God.  She embodies the Love of God in life and becomes a permanent manifestation of the free      Love of God to her brothers and sisters.  Her Cistercian spirituality helps her build a culture of love which liberates women from marginalization.  She goes to meet those who are “nailed  to the Cross.”  It is the witness she carries with the Beauty of the Crucified.  In this way, she announces Life, Easter, and LOVE, THE  BEING  OF  GOD.