The young sister emphasized that she recognized “this desire that I had to surrender myself” and that it was as if Jesus were saying to her: “You can surrender yourself to me because I am love. And surrendering yourself will not take away your dignity, but quite the opposite, it will make you a woman, a spouse and a mother.”
“There I felt the vocation, but I did not know about Iesu Communio because I lived in Italy, and after a few years I went to study for a master’s degree in Madrid. And when I met the sisters, it was like the evidence that Jesus wanted me here, that he has in mind a specific place for each person.”
Iesu Communio is a contemplative women’s religious institute that was founded in 2010 in the Archdiocese of Burgos in Spain. The institute is dedicated to the evangelization of young women and to the contemplative life.
It was established after the community of Claretian cloistered nuns of Lerma, Spain, surprised the world with their numerous young vocations.
The nuns received oral notification of the decision of Pope Benedict XVI to establish their community as a new women’s religious institute of pontifical right, called Iesu Communio.
The sisters say they feel “called to be an existence and prayerful presence that holds deep within the ‘I thirst’ of the Bridegroom.”