Eparchy of Palai

St Alphonsa was a paragon of all Christian virtues. A paradigmatic exemplar of kenotic suffering and supreme forbearance, she had heard the persistent call of Jesus even in her noughties and striven soulfully to interiorize it with the entire moral and spiritual force at her command. Her Christian way was the way to Calvary, the way of the cross. Hers was the via dolorosa - not roses, roses, but crosses, crosses all the way. An abiding faith in the mysterious manifestations of  Providence, an  abounding   hope    that     all  her  angst and  anguish would not be in vain and  a  selfless   love   for   all  distraught souls   around   informed her life.