Bubbly Suor

Suor Angeles Galvez Dominguez and the students of Madre Pia Notari Schools in Sta. Cruz

She is the Local Superior of the Crucified Sister Adorers of the Holy Eucharist which runs the Madre Pia Notari Schools in Santa Cruz. Suor Angie is the 10th of 12 siblings. She was born and raised in Malalag, Davao del Sur. Her father was a war veteran and her mother was a merchant. Growing up in a big family did not stop them from doing their obligations in the church. She recalled how their parents take them to the church every Sunday, they would consume two pews, the first six children sit with their mother and the other half sits with their father in another pew.

As a child, Suor Angie didn’t show any hint that she would wind up as a nun someday. She has a bubbly personality, very cheerful so that everyone calls her the life of the party. She went to Davao City High School for her secondary education where she enjoyed socializing and mingling with a bigger community.

After finishing high school, she immediately proceeded to do some “search-ins”. And on May 22, 1985, she joined the Crucified sisters as an aspirant. That surprised everyone in the family and the community. She was known to be a chatty girl, very conversant and a very curious individual, they all thought she’s not fit for the convent.

However, Suor Angie said, her curiosity really drove her to choose the convent over college. After a year in aspirancy, their congregation has to bring them all to Italy for the the rest of their formation. There was no Formation yet in the country at that time. Suor Angie did not hesitate to go despite her young age, the distance from her family, the language barrier which is the biggest ordeal you will have to tackle, not to mention the culture of the country so diverse. She took her four year course in college taking up Education while in her Postulancy and Novitiate. Therefore after 5 years, which was in Sept 23, 1990, she got her first religious profession. And on Sept 12, 1997, she got her perpetual profession. All of these events in her vocation happened in Italy, in the absence of her family. She recalled how she navigated life in the convent in a foreign land where the aspirants, postulants and novices speak different languages and Filipinos were not a majority. There were never a time she recalled she wanted to call it off. Suor Angie is a very prayerful person. She talks to God as her father, she turns to Him in the altar when times get tough. She always asks for signs before she makes crucial decisions, always asking for God’s wisdom. Her message: “If you are not called, make yourself to be called.” Suor Angie celebrated her 25 years in the congregation last September 23, 2015.