During my vocational discernment, my personal prayer to God was always the same: “Lord, what do you want from me?” One day while I was talking to my father, he told me that some years before, when he was searching for God’s plan, he received a response to his prayer through one of the messages of Our Lady of Fatima, the one from the 13 ^th of May 1917 where she said to the little shepherds, “ Come here for 6 consecutive months and I will tell you what I want from you!” How happy I was when I heard that he had also gone to Fatima for 6 months and had received a response to his prayer!
 
Instantly, I decided to do the same thing, so that I could understand God’s plan for me!  I had no doubt that Our Lady could really reveal to me what to do if I were there for that time! But everything took on a different dimension when I shared what had happened with my spiritual guide, Sr. Veronica. She helped me reflect, thanks to the teachings of our founder, about the spiritual meaning of the message – that instead of literally going to Fatima, I should devote a period of time in my life solely to understanding the Will of God: on retreat, away from the world and everyday life, in a place suitable for hearing the voice of the Lord (as Fatima was in 1917).
 
Finally! Thanks to that response, my heart and my intelligence were “joined” and I found a little peace in place of the restlessness that wouldn’t leave me!
 
More than 7 years have passed since that incident, and I am happy to be able to testify that Our Lady truly came through on her promise in my life as well, and in the 6 months that I offered her I found with certainty the answer to my prayer,
“Lord, what do you want from me?”