Priest Profile

MEET SISTER HERLINDA RAMIREZ-MACHADO, CSJ

SISTERS OF ST. JOSEPH OF ORANGE

By Staff     7/30/2015

HOMETOWN: Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico

YEARS AS A SISTER: 14

HER ROLE: Pastoral assistant at St. Jude Neighborhood Clinic in Fullerton

FIRST JOB: “I worked as a clerk in a family grocery store.”

HER FAVORITE MEMORY: “In the beginning as a religious woman my English was very limited. However, I learned that it is a language of the heart and that it does not require words to communicate the care and love that we have for others.”

WHAT DREW HER TO THE ORDER: “The joy of the Sisters of St. Joseph as they worked with us shoulder to shoulder in Mexico.”

ANY JOB IN THE WORLD: “ A psychologist to help the broken.”

HER FAVORITE SCRIPTURE: 1 Corinthians 13: 1-13 – Love is patient, love is kind (The Excellence of Love)