Echoes. Celebrating and Living Fruitfully The Year of Consecrated Life. Published 11/25/2014

Echoes. Celebrating and Living Fruitfully The Year of Consecrated Life. Published 11/25/2014

Novices Carolina, Eridania, and Ivette
with Sister Carmen and Ondina

Is your love contagious?

This year we participated in the Archdiocesan Conference of Catechesis. The conferences were excellent, but I also enjoyed meeting so many people I know who so faithfully serve God in the catechetical ministry.

Meeting good people always energizes me, but in special way when it is people I have known for a long time or have known me for a long time. I find this as an opportunity to renew my commitment to God and the people I serve. They remind me and reaffirm my vocation. They have been there in different moments of my life. They have been an example of Christian commitment. Goodness is contagious as negativity can also poison others.

In these days in which the Ebola epidemic is causing so much suffering, especially in the poorest people of Africa, I wish good things were as contagious. It does not take much, a smile, a welcoming gaze, a gentle word. There is great need for this. As Claretians we are called "to make the way easier for others " (Antonia Paris), to make God's love present in the world with our lives and our ministry.
Sister Ondina

The Claretian Missionary Summer Program

An Experience of Service, Community, and Spirituality Claretian Style

July 10-20, 2014 in rural Florida

Ministry/Service: Participants will work in the northwest area of the Diocese of St Augustine.

Community Life: Participants support each other by working, living together, daily prayer, daily household tasks, and recreational time enjoying the surrounding country area’s attractions.

Spirituality: Participants will have time to reflect on their experience in the program while exploring vocational options.This program provides an experience of ministry, service, community life, prayer life and spirituality that helps deepen one’s sense of vocation in an environment that cultivates personal growth.

It is designed to help young women ages of 18-30 discover a deeper sense of their Christian call to serve and to enhance the gifts that God has given them.

Ministry Opportunities:

 Through these activities and time shared, the

Claretian Missionary Sisters hope to help

participants experience how their gifts may

serve the community to bring hope and joy.

Examples:

Ø  Migrant life style and work on fields,

Ø  Summer Camp Activities with children

Ø  Youth ministry

Ø  Social justice-

Ø  Visiting families

Ø  Visiting Elderly

Requirements:

ü  Participants should be able to live in community with other participants and Claretian sisters.

ü  Willingness to serve and share the joy of the Gospel with the poor
(Orientation and final evaluation is an important part of the program)

COST $50.00 + personal transportation (participants arrange with sisters how to reach area of the summer mission)

For more information and registration contact:

Sister Lili Tututi RMI

2325 NE CR400, Mayo, Florida 32066

 (386) 294-2126  

(386) 330-4527

lili@claretiansisters.org

El Poder de la Cancion

Ayer, en nuestra escuela, estuvimos celebrando el día de los abuelos. Como gran regalo, se invitaron a los abuelos a venir a la escuela. Primero tuvimos un rato de oración ante el Santísimo que terminó con la bendición a todos los presentes.
Es aquí donde me resultó interesante el día. El padre les explicó lo que se estaba haciendo, todo lo que se usaba en ese momento. Lindo. Los niños, desde 4 hasta los 14 anos, todos estaban atentos a lo que estaba pasando. Ocho minutos de total silencio. Ah! Qué bonito!
Bendición. Canto final. Cada uno para su salón. Ya se pueden imaginar. Conversación por todo lo alto. Estaban todos felices.
Se me ocurrió ponerme en el micrófono y cantarles “Walk, walk in the Light”
Increíble. El murmullo baja completamente y se oye el resonar de su canto. Todos los niños cantaron. Y cantaron con gran entusiasmo. Mientras caminaban hacia su salón, cantaban.
Allá en el fondo (entrada de la iglesia) se veía a un joven de 8vo grado bailando mientras cantaba. Que belleza! I just loved it! Ya al final, los que quedaban se pudieron a dar palmas mientras cantaban.
El poder de una canción. Pero más bien, el poder de una canción que les ha dicho algo en su vida. El poder de una canción que los lleva a dejar todo lo demás para dedicarse a ella.
Mientras tanto, los abuelos observaban y disfrutaban.

Ya después los abuelos fueron a compartir un desayuno y a visitar los salones de sus nietos.

Gracias, Señor por la música, por todas aquellas canciones que llenan nuestro ser, que nos llevan mas allá de nuestro presente.