Sister Mary Martires celebrates her Golden Jubilee

Sister Mary Jesus Martires, OP celebrated her Golden Jubilee of Religious Profession with a Thanksgiving Mass and reception at St. Paul, the Apostle Church on Jan. 3. She was joined by a host of family, friends, priests and other religious in the Congregation of the Religious Missionaries of St. Dominic. Archbishop Adolfo Tito Yllana, Apostolic Nuncio to the Democratic Rebublic of Congo was the main celebrant.

"A golden jubilee… is an inexplicable joy that 'arises from grateful remembrance' as Pope Francis would put it in his Apostolic Exhortation 'Evangelii gaudium' (EG1), which like the Apostles would never forget that moment when Jesus touched their hearts on the way to Emmaus. So each day has become a gradual discovery of the beauty of one's communion with the very person of Christ," Archbishop Yllana said in his homily.

Read more about Sister Mary in the February issue of the South Texas Catholic.