About Sister Avila

Sr. Avila Avila is the daughter of the late Peter Avila Sr. and Sotera Nicholas Avila. Teacher Avila, her dad, taught her throughout her elementary education in the Catholic Schools in the villages of Corozal, Cayo and Orange Walk Districts.

Upon passing the Primary School Leaving Certificate Exam, Ligoria Rose Avila moved to Belize City to attend St. Catherine’s Academy and graduated in 1958. It was in high school that she met Sr. Felicia Avila, OSP, sister of the late Fr. Martin C. Avila and Sr. Aquinas Heusner, OSP and began discerning religious life. In the fall of 1959, Rose Avila left Belize for Baltimore, Maryland to enter the Religious Community of the Oblate Sisters of Providence.

She served God’s people as an elementary school teacher and Catechist in a number of Catholic Schools including Baltimore, Maryland; Washington, D.C; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Orangeburg and Charleston, South Carolina; Norfolk, Virginia; Wilson, South Carolina, Chicago, Illinois, Buffalo, New York, and Miami, Florida. Today, she is assigned at the Motherhouse in Baltimore, where she continues to do private tutoring to elementary students and chauffeurs the Sisters of her community to their doctors’ appointments.

While Sr. Avila never served in her homeland of Belize, she was able to spend many summers in catechetical ministry in the communities of Seine Bight and San Ignacio. "I felt deep joy in being able to serve in my homeland as I ministered to some of the youth of Belize. I am thankful to the Almighty to have had this opportunity."

~ Written By Deacon Nieves Hernandez ~

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