Casa Santa: The House of Assumption Sisters in Iloilo --- Assumption Iloilo, Gen. Luna St., Iloilo City, Philippines, November 2010

The Iloilo Community of the Religious of the Assumption ( RA ) is housed in a beautiful edifice inside the Assumption Iloilo campus along the scenic Iloilo River. It is aptly called 'Casa Santa'. During school days, one can see Assumption nuns strolling around the area either on foot or on the stretcher.

My favorite place in the Casa Santa is the Adoration Chapel which I have visited three times in my four years as an Assumption-Iloilo facilitator. I remember Ms. Cecile Glorette Adrias, my Department Coordinator, bringing me to 'Casa Santa' one Friday afternoon because I was stressed working with a colleague I couldn't connect to in the workplace. I stayed there for half an hour trying to see Jesus visibly present under the appearance of a small white host. There I felt my need to foster a greater community spirit, with Jesus'presence in the Blessed Sacrament as its center.

True to its name, Assumption-Iloilo's 'Casa Santa' is indeed a 'Holy House'!