{"id":4089,"date":"2025-05-11T10:19:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T02:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodshepherdsisters.info\/?p=4089"},"modified":"2026-01-27T10:28:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:28:29","slug":"no-turning-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodshepherdsisters.info\/index.php\/2025\/05\/11\/no-turning-back\/","title":{"rendered":"No Turning Back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Vocation Story Sr. Mary Marcelline Riosa, RGS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<style>.kb-image4089_9dc493-3d .kb-image-has-overlay:after{opacity:0.3;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-image kb-image4089_9dc493-3d\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"569\" src=\"https:\/\/goodshepherdsisters.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/8-768x569.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"kb-img wp-image-4091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodshepherdsisters.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/8-768x569.jpg 768w, https:\/\/goodshepherdsisters.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/8-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodshepherdsisters.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/8-1024x759.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/goodshepherdsisters.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/8.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It is hard to write a vocation story when you do not know how it started. The only thing I\u2019m sure of is that I\u2019m still in the con\u00advent for 60 years, still much in love with my Good Shep\u00adherd and happy in the sheepfold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was young, I never thought of being a Sister, not even in my wildest dream. The only Sisters I saw were the Daughters of St. Paul selling books from house to house. I pitied them so much that my mother usually bought a book from them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I got all my education from public schools and the state university. My only religious instruction was from our parish every Sunday afternoon. But as a child I love going to Mass everyday. It started when I was in high school. Then I had my devotion to our Lady of Lourdes and wore her habit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After my college education I taught in St. Domitilla\u2019s School (now St Bridget School) and residence where children are placed because of troubled family situations. I have seen the care and compassion of the Good Shep\u00adherd Sisters for the girls (from kindergarten to high school). And the way they work with the girls with personal problems in the school attracted me to the kindness of the old Sisters. I stayed with them during my vacation to help in their mission. I told my spiritual direc\u00adtor of my attraction to take care of the girls and he advised me to try the convent life. I told one of the Sisters who in turn referred me to the one in charge of admission. I was accepted and from the moment I entered the door of the convent I never did turn back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> I told my spiritual direc\u00adtor of my attraction to take care of the girls and he advised me to try the convent life. I told one of the Sisters who in turn referred me to the one in charge of admission. I was accepted and from the moment I entered the door of the convent I never did turn back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[48,45,33],"class_list":["post-4089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vocation-story","tag-consecrated-life","tag-good-shepherd","tag-vocation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodshepherdsisters.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodshepherdsisters.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodshepherdsisters.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodshepherdsisters.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodshepherdsisters.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/goodshepherdsisters.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4093,"href":"https:\/\/goodshepherdsisters.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089\/revisions\/4093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodshepherdsisters.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodshepherdsisters.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodshepherdsisters.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodshepherdsisters.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}