It is truly awe-inspiring to know the ways that God led Sr Amy Emmanuel,
the eldest daughter of Varghese and Annakutty from Pallikkamury parish
(Kothamangalam diocese), for the establishment of PDM and
Abhishekagni Sisters of Jesus & Mary (ASJM). Sr Amy Emmanuel, who
took her first profession as a CMC nun in 1994, showed from a very young
age a special presence of God in her life.
Sr Amy Emmanuel, who received
a powerful baptism in the Holy Spirit during her higher studies at Vimala
College (Thrissur), was being directed by the Spirit of the Lord to a life
of religious consecration. Even amidst the opposition of her parents, Sr Amy
Emmanuel took the firm decision to walk in the ways of God and to
follow in His ways even through all the trials and sufferings she faced.
God was preparing Sr Amy Emmanuel, who had a profound conviction of
a life of her vows and deep spirituality, and was filled with an intense
desire for the salvation of souls, the renewal of the Church, a self-
sacrificial life for the sanctification of priests and religious, an
anointing
of the charismatic gifts of the Holy Spirit, a zeal to prepare the world for
the second coming of Jesus, a boldness to prepare and commission
missionaries, seminarians and religious for world evangelisation, and a
desire for the renewal of religious congregations. Even during her
formative years, Sr Amy Emmanuel would inform her novice mistress
and provincial of the interior calling she felt from the Holy Spirit. Though
Sr Amy Emmanuel had informed her superiors of the intense desire in
her heart prior to her perpetual profession, it was in 2007 that a
favourable resolution was reached. The then-superior general Mother
Edward discerned the interior calling which Sr Amy Emmanuel was
receiving and decided to send her to Sehion Retreat Centre, Attapadi to
spend time in prayer and receive further clarity on the matter.
Compelled by her love for Jesus, Sr Amy Emmanuel felt the need to
renounce the comforts and cares of the world and embrace
wholeheartedly an intense life of expiation, even in the basic needs
concering food, housing, clothing, travels, and other areas of her life. All
of these she offered for the conversion of sinners and for strengthening
of priests and religious. In this way, the Lord was laying the foundations
required for the monastic lifestyle of PDM through which the Lord desires
to strengthen the priestly consecrated life. Through her life of continuous
night vigils and spending vast amounts of time before the Blessed
Sacrament in constant prayer, the Lord was revealing to her the spirit of
PDM, which is that of unity of with God and interceding for the world. The
graces which abounded in Sr Amy Emmanuel to seek out and find lost
souls, and to unite souls through grace-filled preaching, and to bring
priests and religious into unity with God using the charismatic gifts of
the Holy Spirit were the primary charisms of PDM.
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