“My greatest desire was to love God with all my heart and do God’s will,” Sister Mary Jane Romero recalls. The Colorado native was encouraged throughout her childhood to learn about her faith and dreamed of becoming a saint or a missionary some day.
During high school, she read “The Bread of Life,” by Father Lukas Etlin, a valiant supporter and great friend of the Benedictine Sisters. She wrote the congregation and received another book, “Eucharistic Adorer,” which enchanted the young girl and led to her religious calling.
We Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration are a monastic community called to a ministry of prayer, with a tradition of unceasing adoration of Christ in the Eucharist. As Benedictines we live under a Rule and a prioress. Each of our monasteries with its distinct spirit and circumstances unites the monastic charism with an orientation to the Eucharist in the service of the Church. Read more
“My greatest desire was to love God with all my heart and do God’s will,” Sister Mary Jane Romero recalls. The Colorado native was encouraged throughout her childhood to learn about her faith and dreamed of becoming a saint or a missionary some day.
