Contents of the Writings

Blessing at the Table

  FEAST OF SAINT VICENTA MARÍA

 

In the world today, there are dreams, desires, longings, thirsts for what is authentic, for what lasts, what is infinite... There is thirst for God.  Also in this world, there are noises, images, thousand of things that appear to fill up the life of men but they don't make them happy.  There are situations, realities that crush his dignity and drown the call of God to happines, to the fullness of love...    

In the midst of these moments of unhappiness, of darkness, God sees and listens to the shouts that He Himself has placed in the heart of man and does not leave us alone, but decides one more time to do redemption and look after those who listen to His call and are not drowned by other voices that do not give life.

God, in contemplating the world of the youth, loved it and opened the eyes of Vicenta Maria to the reality of the girls that would come to the capital to serve and had nobody to take care of them.  It was like lighting a light, a light that continues  to shine in her daughters, those that embarked with her through space and time to save and sanctify the youth... a light that illumines  and gives warmth to many and many youth that need continuously somebody, someone who gives them a hand, someone who may tell them that God loves them,  that life is worth living.      

Today, we are united around this table with some of those who one day more or less in the near future, maybe called to follow the footsteps of this woman who was able to give her life,  to be light for the youth.

Bless this food that we going to share, and above all bless our community, the communion among us that with our love we may be witnesses of your love in the world. 

 

ACT OF THANKSGIVING  

 

" How great you are in everything, my God.  With liberty you have enriched us with such excellent things.  Thus, I want that they may serve me to go to You.  Seeing the sun and those heavenly bodies I will praise you, admiring your wisdom, power and goodness.  Likewise, seeing the things that there are on earth; to contemplate persons; if I see good things I will praise you; if I see sins I will implore your mercy; if they make me suffer I will offer them to you; that everything may take me to You and never I may leave You."    

 

Lord, we would like to unite our act of thanksgiving with that of  Vicenta Maria.  Thank you because through everything and all that we become, comes your message of love, because each day renews in us the desire to be faithful until the end in the convenant of love that we have sealed with you in the Church.  Thank you  for these moments, in a special manner for the sanctity of Vicenta Maria, we are able to share together the joy to be her daughters, the happiness to be sisters.