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Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Fifteen years ago Maricris llasos, university graduate in Education in the Philippines came to Hong Kong keep house for an elderly couple. Today Sr. Maricris Llasos made her perpetual vows as a Missionary Sister of Our Lady of the Angels M.N.D.A., during Mass presided by Bishop Simon Lam, SDB, at which 200 people were present, religious Sisters, family members and friends. According to Hong Kong diocese bulletin Kong Ko Bao (the Mass was held at the parish church of St Anthony on 7 October, Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. Sr. Llasos said it was not easy to follow her vocation: “when I took part in discernment groups with the sisters I realised by vocation. But things were difficult, the family needed support, my father was ill, my younger brother had to study… . But the Lord made it possible. My aunt, who was totally against my decision, said in the end ‘the Lord Himself opened the way for you’”. Sr Maricris is not the first housekeeper to join the MNDA. The provincial superior says, “at the beginning of October a woman from Philippines who used to work in Hong Kong took her perpetual vows in Japan, and in December we will have another new Sister in the Philippines. But what counts for us is not quantity but quality. Good preparation, willingness to respond to the vocation, and build an intimate relationship with the Lord”.
The Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Angels M.N.D.A. was founded by two Chinese nuns in 1922, in Canada, for mission in China to evangelise especially Chinese women. The Congregation came to Hong Kong in 1926. The Mother House is still in Canada. The two Sister foundresses desired to go to China to improve religious and humanistic knowledge of women. The gathered around them Chinese women to achieve their dream forming religious, catechists and lay women. The Sisters are active in social work, healthcare and education. (NZ) (Agenzia Fides 05/11/2007 - righe 26, parole 282 )
