THREE BLOOD SISTERS WHO BECAME REV. SISTERS IN THE SAME CONGREGATION.

THREE BLOOD SISTERS WHO BECAME REV. SISTERS IN THE SAME CONGREGATION.

Sister Mariana, Sister Roziane, and Sister Isabela Guimaraes are three blood sisters who embraced their call to religious life in the same congregation: the Institute of the Sisters of Our Lady of Good Counsel.

Today Sr. Mariana, 50, and Sr. Isabela, 35, live in the same house of the congregation, located in Maricá in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state. Mariana is a counselor and part of the institute’s governance, and Isabela takes care of the elderly nuns. Sister Roziane, 37, lives in Belo Horizonte in Minas Gerais state.

The sisters said that their parents were key to their religious vocation, since they taught them by example to live their faith in Christ. However, they said that although they come from the same family and follow the same charism, each lives her vocation in her own way, according to her own way of being.

According to one of them,“I was already dating and my boyfriend was a good guy, but he didn’t awaken that love in me. That’s when I realized what my calling was.