We, the Sisters of Our Lady of La Salette in the Philippines are women disciples of Christ, called to live and witness in word, deed and ritual in a creative and participatory way, to the realization of ecclesial communion, interfaith solidarity among peoples and deep ecological integrity as designed by Mary in her apparition at La Salette, who invites us to transcendence and the restoration of the dignity of persons and creation in a process of conversion from a life restrained by personal weakness and social injustice to the fullness of life in Christ.

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We are uniquely blessed with a founding event - the Apparition of our Lady of La Salette on September 19,1846. Mary's compassionate presence at La Salette; her tears, words, gestures, symbols and the social context serve as a striking illustration and an urgent reminder of God's merciful love and compassion for His people and creation. She affirms that God is intimately present at the heart of our lives in conversion with us. She weeps because "her people" has so much need for conversion and she remains hopeful that they return to the Source of life, the God of infinite tenderness.

Sometime in the middle of 1985, Sisters Leonor, Saturnina and Constancia, SNDS, went to see Mrs. Rosario Sondoc, owner of the Mt. View Subdivision in Muzon, San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan for the initial expression of the need of a land where the Sisters can put up a Kindergarten School. Mrs. Bondoc welcomed the delegation in the company of Mrs. Crisencia Galiza, a sales agent. After listening to the Sisters, she said she had the same idea - the desire to give Christian education to the children in the subdivision and he surrounding towns. The following meeting that occurred, the area of the donation was given: 2 hectares and another half for the Church. The deed of donation, the survey processing of the titles were immediately done. The following year, a signboard was put up: Opening of the School of Our Lady of La Salette: June 1986. From that time on, the school has grown and is now offering Pre-elementary, Elementary, and High School levels. From the small building, we have now two additional buildings which houses the Elementary and High School department, and the other building which houses the La Salette Sisters on the second floor and the Kindergarten and Computer on the ground floor. This Jubilee Year, the Sisters succeeded in putting up a Facsimile of the apparition of Our Lady of La Salette.

Attentive to the promptings of the Spirit, we have chosen to live as a faith community bonded by a Salettine missional charism and an institutional mode of life in the rhythm of the ministry of Reconciliation.

We commit ourselves to be steeped in prayer, imbued with the spirit of sacrifice, filled with zeal and affirm life as a joyful celebration.

Our common identity commissions us:

to participate in the collective endeavors of the faithful to build a Church of Communion and Solidarity with a special care for the poor and a regard for community resurgence;
to enable people, through the special light and guidance of the La Salette Event, to have access to knowledge and wisdom as well as the power and inspiring symbols of the Gospel;
to accompany people to care and serve one another in their historical struggle for justice, peace and fullness of creation.