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When Regala’s husband, Emilio Regala Jr., a physician, died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1992, she felt lost.

Her children were carrying on their lives, some living in Hawaii and Florida. So, she sold the family home in Hartford and went to Florida with Catholic Volunteers to provide health services for migrant workers’ children after Hurricane Andrew. When she returned, she went on religious retreats, visited all of her children, and she explored some religious orders.

While in Milwaukee’s SS Peter & Paul Church with her daughter in 1996, she saw a Salvatorian vocations card on a bulletin board and acted.

Now known as Sister Letty, she lives with other sisters at St. Pius X Parish in Wauwatosa, and she assists her order’s vocations efforts. Her formation process has included serving as a chaplain and pastoral team member in Arizona, doing pastoral care in a Wisconsin nursing home, and having an immersion experience with Salvatorian sisters in Brazil.