 Gradually Rodríguez felt herself called to religious life in a convent, and finally decided to enter a local one.Butinyà, however, saw in her the model he envisioned of someone who could imitate the quiet life of service and prayer which Christ Himself had followed in his home in Nazareth, with Mary, His mother, and Joseph.He therefore proposed to her that she take a radically different path, one in which a community of religious women could respond to the situation of poor, working women.