OUR SPIRITUALITY
Sister Ulrika Nisch - 1987
Sayings:
Above all we have to pray for a deep understanding.
The spirit is occupied with God; work is sanctified through union with God.
It is a good sign when God sends us crosses. Thus he wants to prepare us for heaven.
I am poor, and yet I have everything. Oh life, oh wealth!
If we don’t pray, there will be no blessing, and the work will not go well.
About Sr. Ulrika Nisch:
Sister Ulrika was beatified on November 1, 1987 by the official church through Pope John Paull!. This is a further confirmation that her life could give us direction and help in our day-to-day lives.
She was born on September 18, 1882 at Mittel-biberach-Oberdorf in Germany. On April 24, 1907 Sister Ulrika Nisch celebrated her profession at Hegne, Germany. She died already on May 8, 1913.
Many people, especially those marginalized by society, soon discovered Sister Ulrika as one like them and as their helper. It is this trust that has brought her life story out of hiddenness and opened up access to her secret.
In the whole of Sister Ulrika's biography there is no outstanding beacon, no shaking upheaval, not even a clearly visible history of her vocation. Everything looked so unassuming from the outside that no signals that might have indicated something extraordinary became visible. It was a silent voice that called Sister Ulrika and with a silent, but decisive answer, she responded to this voice. The signs of what was happening within her remained so silent, that the secret of our sister remained almost fully hidden even to her own community. Therefore, it is like a symbol of this silent happening, that the disease that at least partly led to her death, was tuberculosis of the lungs and throat. This caused her voice to be almost fully silenced.
Sister Ulrika walked her way in all hiddenness, in silent service of her sisters and brothers, in trusting reliance on the presence of God. Her life is marked by a simple spirituality. Its contents and external expressions were in no way spectacular or out of the ordinary according to the everyday life and convent custom of her time. And yet there can be discerned a witness which alerts anyone who listens to the silent voice. +
(Translated from German: Klaus Hemmerle, Ulrika Nisch, ihr Weg und ihre Botschaft)
