August 17 Six young vocations from East Timor arrived in the Philippines. We pray together that they may grow as good religious in God through their period of support in initial formation, acquiring knowledge about religious life, and experiencing community life.

Besides, On the 22nd, Sister Rosa Park So-yeon began her novitiate with a ceremony during the Vespers prayer. She received the medal of the Virgin Mary that marks the beginning of her novitiate in addition to the constitutions of the Congregation that she will learn with M. Esther, the novice teacher. We pray that she may grow as a conceptionist under the mercy of God and the protection of the Immaculate Virgin Mary during the novitiate, which can be considered the flower of religious life.

In this way, two novices and six aspirants live together in the novitiate of the Province of Asia, growing through community and apostolic experiences.