Sister Guadalupe Ruiz: Computer Teacher and Education Mystic
Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio

Sister Guadalupe Ruiz, the present coordinator of the Education Ministry in Mexico, is known for her dynamic personality and her willingness to graciously help out whenever called upon.

In her youth, Sister Guadalupe attended school with the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word at Instituto Miguel Angel in Mexico City. She became what she saw in the Sisters when she joined the Congregation in 1958, an open spirit to the Charism and the CCVI spirituality.

Sister Guadalupe was the General Director for the School Miguel de Cervantes in San Andrés, Tuxtla, Veracruz, Mexico and promoted the teaching of computer training and the application of modern technologies, as well as the learning of English. She was also Director of the Elementary School of Instituto América in Chihuahua, Mexico; and was teaching in the group of schools Colegio Mexicano and La Paz in Monterrey and Torreón, respectively.

"The education mysticism flows from the Charism, our Spirituality and the Congregational Mission such as the Letters by Mother Pierre Cinqu'n, the Church Documents, the Catholic School, the presence of the Church in the education world in Mexico, the consecrated persons and their mission in the schools," said Sister Guadalupe.

It also flows from the great fountain of experience and from history; from the road the Sisters have walked as they founded and have sustained the institutions in times of plenty and in times of persecution. Believing in the teaching and practice of faith from the focus of the Mystery of the Incarnation in education, Sister Guadalupe is the head of the group that is preparing the 2003 Education Assembly. She hopes the Assembly will enrich the participants of the Congregation with conferences by the education ministry and other ministries, and that together we will praise the Incarnate Word forever.