The 1st Sr. Julie Postel Memorial Lecture on Mission Spirituality

The first public lecture in honor of Sr. Julie Postel on “Mission Spirituality” was held last November 20, 2021 through a webinar via Zoom with Sr. Anna Crisvie “Happy” Montecillo, DSA as resource speaker.

The webinar started with a short introduction on Sr. Julie Postel’s presence in Escalante with Fr. Harry Bloem, O.Carm. and O.Carm. Associate Ms. Rizalina Ombi-on. Mrs. Melvin Kl. Koerkamp, also an O.Carm. Associate gave her testimony of her experience of the Sisters of Julie Postel in Escalante and how the sisters helped and inspired her as a missionary.

She shared in her talk some documents of the Catholic Church on Mission. Then she defined Mission Spirituality as awakening, enlightenment, compassion, forgiveness, joy, inner peace and karma.

Sr. Happy also shared the message of Pope Francis for World Mission Sunday of 2021: “Once we experience the power of God’s love, and recognize his fatherly presence in our personal and community life, we cannot help but proclaim and share what we have seen and heard.” What we saw and heard that created an overwhelming experience for us, cannot just be kept in us. She hoped that as followers of Christ, we will be spreading the good news of salvation and not the fake news of destruction.

She also shared her own story as a missionary in the different mission areas of the Daughters of St. Anne, specially her eleven (11) years as a missionary in Indonesia. She ended her talk with a message that “Mission Spirituality is about God’s story in our lives that we share with others, and upon sharing, it ignites God’s love in those who listen to it. Then it will become a chain of good news.”

There were one hundred five (105) participants who attended the webinar, with some attending in groups.