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Letter from Mother Christine, put in a sealed envelope to be opened after her death.)
"It is in order to obey, that I am writing for the Solitude what I wrote to Our Mother General. […] I had just been converted (15 October 1910) when I went back into retreat for a day or two at Tres Rios; there were three of us. It was in the little Chapel, in the evening, I was alone, on 24 October, I was making a Holy Hour, in the Garden of Olives, when, well, how can I put it? My eyes saw nothing, but my soul saw Our Lord in agony, but in such a terrible agony.[…]. I understood that by giving us the Eucharist, he had delivered himself up and exposed himself to anything.
I felt that I should not continue in the same life, that I needed a life that was more hidden, more recollected, more mortified. I reflected on the need to leave Sion, you can understand what it was like…"

Origin of the contemplative Branch
"I asked God for light, and one evening, in the chapel of the choir-loft in San José, I received the answer in these words, very often repeated afterwards: "Sion, my Sion of prayer and reparation, it is not too late to think about it."* Calm and peace returned immediately.
How could I not have thought for one moment about this contemplative Sion, that Our Father had foreseen in the Constitutions? No: the idea had not come into my mind, the good God was doing everything on his own. […]
From that time on, all my aspirations were directed towards the hope of this contemplative branch, so strongly did I feel that the graces I had received then were not, strictly speaking, "for me". However, Mgr Stork held me back a long time in my desire to write this to Our Mother General.."