Bishop of Salamanca, Spain, welcomes the servants of the mother’s home that will evangelize young people

The servants of the mother’s home, the congregation of the servant of God Claire Crockett, arrived in Salamanca (Spain), to assume the mission of evangelizing young people and praying for the priests.

The 6 religious, who share the charism of the young woman who died in the Ecuador Diocesan website.

After his encounter with the religious and with the founder of the Mother’s Home, P. Rafael Alonso Reymund

“You are going to serve such a vast field here in our city and so important and so difficult, on the other hand, as is the lives of young people. But we know that when you young people present a large ideal, because evidently captivates them,” said the prelate.

Priestly

The Bishop of Salamanca also asked them to pray for the priests, as before the Oblatas of Christ Priest did: “In addition to the defense of the Eucharist that is in your DNA, the defense of the virginity of the mother and the conquest of young people for Jesus Christ, which is typical of your charism, I beg you to pray for the sanctification of priests and seminarists Priesthood, ”he said.

“The bishop blesses you and entrusts Mary to encourage your task and know how to take young people to Jesus, which is what most needs their heart, although many times they do not know it,” said the prelate.

The superior of the new community is the sister Paquita, a native of Salamanca, who recently returned from a mission of Ecuador. Now, he said, “we know people. They stop us very much because they are not so accustomed to seeing religious with the habit of the streets. They stop us, they ask us.”

Many people come in to pray: “It is gorgeous”

The religious said that the doors of the Church of the Monastery remain open all the time they can, especially in the morning when “the students of the University begin to pass.” “Many people come in to pray: it’s gorgeous,” he adds.

The sister also said that they will do holy hours, pilgrimages, pastoral activities with young people so that they “through Mary and through the Eucharist, find the meaning of their lives.”

On the fact of being in a university, the nun commented that “more than a coincidence, I imagine that are God’s plans.”

The Mother’s home servants are in six countries: Italy, Ecuador, the United States, Ireland, Czech Republic and Spain. In the latter they have 10 communities.