What do I have, that you seek my friendship? (Lope de Vega said)
CHRIST QUEEN
I THANK THE LORD, BECAUSE HE IS AND HAS BEEN GOOD TO ME!!!
It is beautiful to remember dates, names, faces, places..."to relive, ("go through the heart) to feel and live that moment again, when on September 8, 50 years ago, a group of sisters responded with a YES, to the Lord, "yes, I want to be yours like H.C.R."
Reviving is also discovering that God “was there”, (that God is here), that HE has a charm for me… and my life has meaning. That the essential became visible to the eyes and the heart. that the essential thing in my life, you see... is God, it is experience, I am in my place and I know it, because I am happy, I am where God wants me and how HE wants me, H.C.R. living in the Institute, where the “holiness” of many sisters, their life and above all “their incarnation” in it, “generates life”, and it is what makes me fall in love and what pushes and encourages me in many moments (dark or gray) to move forward, to be and to trust in my Institute, for this reason “I thank God because he has been good to me” and like life itself, I continue to ask myself: “what mystery captures me… after 50 years?” It is, that “TOUCH OF GOD”, delicate or shaken, what matters! The important thing is to feel touched by God, it is the strength of God, touching my weakness, approaching my life and also the touch of those who have shaped it, the love, support and closeness of my family and my sisters in the congregation, that special touch, of brothers who have walked by my side...they have taught me so much!
It is the “touch of pain”, of so many sick people, so many innocent people, so many “crucified” ones, whom I have accompanied, relieved and consoled, it is the presence of Goodness and Mercy, it is a “delicate touch that tastes of eternal life”, it is above all that continuous presence of the Love of God in my life, manifested in the fidelity maintained throughout these 50 years, lived day by day with the Lord and with the “brothers”.
Years lived to the fullest (as they say in my land), where there was everything: joy, hope, happiness, failures, sin, pain, and love, a lot of love given and received, which prompted me to always have my heart open to love everyone... and that keeps my life, I gave it to God, I gave it everything... and He gave me much more: he gave me sisters and brothers in abundance, and the beautiful "gift" of the call to missions, from my land... Africa, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Italy (Eboli)….
My passion for life, for love, for living every moment without complications, in constant search... (and always finding), especially about how to be poor, and clean of heart, how to love others more and better, the poor, the elderly, the sick, the sisters... it is not easy to translate all these feelings, today I can say that they have made me and make me happy. I am happy to live in the house of God, and to live with my sisters, the Daughters of Christ the King.
I thank God for having noticed me, and keeping me in his house for so many years.
Thanks also to my parents and siblings, who, despite not initially understanding my vocation, have always supported, helped and encouraged me. To my sisters, Daughters of Christ the King, for opening the doors of the Institute to me, and training me to live the “exciting adventure” of “making present the Reign of Jesus Christ among men”, and to my sisters of my current Community (Eboli), who despite my limitations, my impatience and my “badly spoken Italian” have welcomed me with great love, and made me a better person. And I only have to tell you that my life has meaning “in”, “by” and “for” Jesus Christ, and that you, like so many people I have met, have been and are companions on the journey. Thank you with all my heart, thank you for everything.
