I joined the Congregation in 2005 to get to know and live the Hospitaller mission, with the desire to help people suffering from mental illness or disability.In 2007 I began my postulancy. It lasted one year and in 2008 I started the novitiate stage. This lasted two years. In 2010, I made my first profession. From that date I joined the Congregation. Temporarily, I renewed my profession and vows every year until, in 2017, I took the ring, that is to say, I made my perpetual profession. Today marks 18 years since I first met the Hospitallers while living and working in the Congregation’s mission in Vietnam.

I can identify with what our constitutions say: Our purpose in the Church is the exercise of hospitaller charity, lived in a state of religious consecration according to the model of perfect charity, Christ symbolised in his Heart. I translate this into the following:

• To have a personal and fraternal, sincere and gratuitous love for the sisters of one’s own community;
• To have an attitude of kindness and tenderness and in patient, continuous, self-sacrificing and joyful service to the sick, to disabled children “living images of Jesus.
• To welcome everyone we meet, with a simple and humble lifestyle.

Within my means, I try to do the best I can with the task that has been entrusted to me. I have been in charge of the centre for 3 years with physically and mentally handicapped children and adults. We work to make life easier for them, so that they acquire personal autonomy and self-esteem through respect, listening, love, trust and hope so that they feel useful and find meaning in their lives, according to their abilities. And with those most affected, we try to help them acquire behavioural habits, rehabilitation and we try to make them happy.

What added value does practising the hospital project add to your life?