JUDY ROMAN ANTONIO REMEMBERS

It was about a year from graduating high school, I went to see Sr Regivic as she had been our Yr 4 Class Adviser. I told her I had a calling to religious life. She looked at me gently and with seriousness said, it was a beautiful  idea but that I should finish college and even have a boyfriend first. After that, she continued, come and see me again. Fast forward to today, she probably knew then, that I didn’t have a calling. Haha! As fate would have it, I married a loving husband and together we raised wonderful children. 

It would be my happiness to bump into Sr Regivic again, this time as a mother. When she was staying in the Assumption Novitiate in Quezon City,  she met my first born son Paulo. As Pau grew up and we would see her, she would repeat the story of how the toddler Paulo asked me a million questions during Masses (at the UP Diliman chapel where the Assumption sisters and novices would go), about everything the priest was saying and doing. When Sr Regivic  was back in the Cana community in San Lo; my son, Rafa (our singer in the family) had the chance to serenade Sr Regivic and the other Assumption sisters  in one of our visits there. I can’t forget the happy smile she had that day as she looked at Raf. And of course, Sr Regivic (and Sr Sheryl too!) gracing the occasion of my only daughter’s  grade school graduation party at home, is forever etched in our family’s heart. It was an intimate  family event that turned extra special by their loving presence.  With my sisters and their families, it was a celebration where Old Girls united for the newly-minted Old Girl Maia!

Sr. Regivic’s firm but gentle wisdom has taught me that life is prayer in action. So I live it daily, with joy and gratitude. Thank you, dearest Sr. Regivic. You will always be remembered with love and respect.  Rest in eternal happiness with our loving and mighty God.