When I reflect on vocation story as a Handmaid, I feel great joy with the experience of being enveloped by Jesus in the Eucharist with his unconditional love for me. This was visibly experienced in my first communion and confirmation.

I remember that in my teenage hood, during the family rosary, I could not utter words, as I use to get lost in gazing the picture of Sacred heart which was placed at the center of our prayer room. I used to feel that I am embraced by His look and it was there He captured me to be His own. I was also very much touched with my mother’s large heartedness towards the poor by helping the needy and homeless and seeing them as one of us.

As the search was growing in me some of the Handmaids visited my home. Their overnight presence confirmed my vocation as a Handmaid. There was an incident which confirmed it ‘i.e.’ during the supper, the electricity went off and I appeared in the midst of the sisters with a candle light and I could hear the sisters altogether telling in one voice: “Here comes the light of the world” – I was very much touched by their joy, simplicity and their being with us as one among us. This helped my connectedness with the handmaids to grow deeper and went for a “come and see program” very often. There too I was very much attracted by the Eucharistic life and community life.  In short, “I went, saw and was captured by the Lord”.

My family was not convinced about me being a handmaid and send me to a local congregation for a month’s experience where I could not even stay for a week as I was already decided and convinced my call as a Handmaid.

During these past experiences of my life I am most touched by the life in Roha, where I see it as my first home, where I was called to commit myself to the poorest of the poor and marginalized; where I experienced and lived my vision and mission to the full. “I have come that they may have life to the full.   (Sr.Kochuthresia Konath.aci)

Happy Birthday Sr.Kochu ( 5th May)