The life of Mother Maria Luisa Josefa of the Most Blessed Sacrament is no ordinary story. It is a story filled with that complete trust in God which makes life a daring adventure, the kind of adventure one encounters when one dares to love God above all things and to place one’s life completely in His hands. It is a story where trust in God and obedience to His manifest designs bursts forth into great sanctity.
Maria Luisa de la Pena
Blind Obedience..
At the age of fifteen in obedience to her parents, she married Doctor Pascual Rojas, a prominent physician who was twice her age.
Doctor Pascual Rojas
Their life together was happy, a mutual growing in love of God and neighbor. God did not grant them children. They trusted and decided together that the poor would be their children. They built the little Hospital of the Sacred Heart to serve those less fortunate. After fourteen years of married life Maria Luisa was left a widow. On his deathbed, Doctor Rojas told her that he had no doubt what she would do after he had died – she would serve God as a religious.
Mother Maria Luisita
Holy Endurance…
Mother Luisita is a model of holiness in the single, married, widowed and religious state.