Mother Ignacia's Commitment to the Life of the Church

• Mission - if there is the presence of the one who sends, the one who is sent and that there is a task to be accomplished
• Natives or Yndias - did not seem to count much in the society
• Mother Ignacia responded to her situation by upholding the Christian values of FIDELITY and COMMITMENT by her perseverance in the life she chosen
• Testimony of Faith - "It would take time before the light shing from her little lamp would be seen but her lamp kept on shining"
• Love and Hope - needed today especially when young people find themselves faced with an insecure future
• Gifts of God: Strength, Resources
• Strange - the ways of God
• Lowliness and Humility - later were found as her greatest treasures
• Stepping Stones - a stumbling blocks that were creatively use as a response towards personal growth
• How many years did the Spaniards stayed in the Philippines?

  300 years
• Pope John Paul II - stated the confirmation of Mother Ignacia's mission-mindedness
• Missionary - to love without frontiers, to communicate and extend the kingdom and open new ways to the Gospel