First Profession of Vows
World Mission Sunday

"I commit all my strength so as not to be evasive to the missionary adventure, in order to inculturate the Gospel in the diversity of all cultures, in order to prolong the Incarnation of the Word...(Const., 254)"

On Sunday October 22nd, 2006, World Mission Sunday, eight novices made their first profession of vows. Through the religious vows "...the religious offers herself and all that is hers to God, without keeping anything back: through the vow of chastity, she offers the goods of her body; through the vow of poverty, external things; and through the vow of obedience, the goods of her soul (Const., 51)." During the same ceremony, the IVE novices received their habit, the black cassock, and a group of IVE seminarians made their first vows. We congratulate the Whiting family of Mobile, Alabama who came to be present for a double celebration. Their oldest daughter, Sr. Mary Mother of Light Whiting, made her first profession of vows and one of their younger sons, Brother Andrew Elija Whiting, IVE Novice, received his religious habit, the black cassock. Congratulations!

The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass was celebrated by Fr. Gustavo Nieto, IVE Provincial Father at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC. The following eight novices made their first profession of religious vows.

Immediately following the Mass, a reception for family and friends was held at St. John Baptist de la Salle in Chillum, MD.

We entrust each newly professed member of our Religious Family to Our Blessed Mother, who is the perfect model of living out the religious vows.