Mother Lillie, Our Foundress, was born in Nogales, Arizona, and spent her childhood in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico and in San Diego, California.
As a young woman she worked as a missionary among the poor and, when she was 35, took vows as a Third Order Discalced Carmelite.
On March 19, 1992, The Solemnity of St. Joseph, while on Pilgrimage to Fatima, Portugal, Mother Lillie received a call to found a Religious Community dedicated to Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration, in the Spirit of the Fatima message, for the building up of the Church in the World and in support of Catholic Priests.
Tijuana, B.C., México.
Within two years of her return from Portugal, a benefactor donated land atop a desolate mountain in Tecate, B.C., Mexico, 25 miles from Tijuana.
It was at this location that Mother and three sisters began living in a small camper. They were without food, water, or electricity, but Divine Providence sustained them.
Despite all this, many young women began to join this newly forming community.
A benefactor, seeing their needs, built a small house and Chapel dedicated to Saint Joseph.
The Trinitarians of Mary were canonically erected as a Public Association of the Faithful on December 12, 1993 by His Excellency, Most Rev. Bishop Emilio Berlié Belaunzarán.
Mother Teresa of Calcuta
encourages Mother Lillie
Mother Lillie sought guidance from fellow foundress Bl. Mother Teresa of Calcutta who told her that the foundation was the work of God and that she must give it to Him!
"Give
It
To
God!"
Blessed Mother Teresa de Calcuta to Mother Lillie.
On November 24, 1994,
Mother Lillie was received by
Holy Father John Paul II,
who gave the community his blessing and expressed his joy at seeing contemplatives in Mexico.
This blessing sealed Mother's vocation and gave her the courage and the strength she needed to found a new community in the Church.
Pope John Paul II in 1994.
Mother Lillie met with the Holy Father again in 1996 and 1998;
at which times he bestowed his Blessings on the Community.
On June 18, 1995, the Apostolic Nuncio,
Most Rev. Girolamo Prigione, blessed Mount Tabor Monastery,
declaring it an “Oasis of Peace”.
by Mother Lillie.
Guadalajara, Jal., México. In 1996, the Community was accepted to open a house in the Archdiocese of Guadalajara, Mexico, by His Eminence Juan Cardinal Sandoval Iñiguez.
In 2004 ten sisters took their perpetual vows at the Cathedral of Guadalajara with Cardinal Sandoval.
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possing in this picture with the Trinitarians of Mary after blessing their Monastery.
San Diego, California..
Founded in 2004 with the permission of
the Most Rev. Robert H. Brom,
Bishop of the Diocese of San Diego,
and under the patronage of
Our Lady of Guadalupe,
the Trinitarians of Mary
began their first foundation
in the United States
Michigan.
Our most recent foundation began in 2004 in the Diocese of Lansing, Michigan
under Bishop Carl Mengling.
The sisters were recently donated
a piece of property in the neighboring
Diocese of Grand Rapids
and have consequently relocated.
In June of 2007,
the sisters received permission
from their new Bishop for the
reservation and adoration
of the Blessed Sacrament to continue their mission to pray to sustain the ministry of the Priests and the conversion of the World.
