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I am Mercedes
I am 80 years and have been consecrated to the Lord
in this Religious Congregation for 46 years of my life.
I am Spanish, born in Colio, a small town of the
province of Potes-Santander, I came from a simple, humble, working family.
I knew the Sisters
by chance, one rainy night in November. I got
lost... I met one girl who brought me to the house where
she worked. I was impressed by her joy despite of
the work, of the thoughtfulness, of the meticolousness,
the care and concern at the treatment of the girls and
the workers... I started to visit them more often, until
I felt an interior strength that would tell me that I
must be like them... that I must put my life to
the service of these girls . One night
that I found myself alone, without knowing where to go,
lost... had found this home and they had welcomed me
with much care, it would be worth it to offer to the
Lord my life for the good of the other young girls, that
maybe one day will find themselves alone and lost like
me and that they would find an extended hand in me, the
welcoming that I have found also...
It was not easy to
leave my home, my family... but the voice of the
Lord insisted inside me and the life of those religious
who would attract me... I was admitted in the
Congregation, I made my simple life a conscious offering
to the Lord and to the girls of who I am and what I have
and though I have lived moments of doubts, of darkness...
never had I regretted being a Religious of Mary
Immaculate.
I have renounced to
another life and to my own life because of love and with
full consciousness and I have been happy... The work has
never been a burden to me, rather, it was a daily
offering that I would do to the Lord that he may blessed
it and through it will give more fruits to the
Congregation. Today, after 46 years
lived in the service of God , when my life is already an
aim of the journey started, I can say that all my days,
my dreams, my resignations, my tiredness, have been only
because of Him and for Him in the service of the youth,
that I feel immensely happy, that I have loved and I
love this Congregation who has brought these girls
to my heart...
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