Sister Clare left Belorado after the schism “so as not to belong to that sect”

Sister María Amparo, the nun who left the community of Poor Clares of Belorado and Orduña last Thursday, after the publication of a letter and a schismatic declaration and placing herself under the jurisdiction of an excommunicated false bishop, has broken her silence.

In an interview granted to Burgos newspaperhas stated that she left the convent “above all, so as not to belong to this sect”, pointing out that before her departure she was “three days without Mass and without anything” and supervised: “I have suffered total surveillance so that I do not I could talk to the older sisters,” he says.

In fact, one of Sister María Amparo’s greatest concerns is “the five older sisters” to whom they did not let her say goodbye and with whom she has not been able to speak.

Sister María Amparo made the decision last Sunday, when she saw the excommunicated false bishop, Pablo de Rojaswho appeared before the sisters at four-thirty in the afternoon, when they were summoned to the parlour.

When Rojas stated that “from now on I am the superior, the one who rules the community and you are under my jurisdiction,” as the sister details, she stood up and refuted him: “The Lord put the words in my mouth, I which had to say: We are under the jurisdiction of D. Mario (Iceta, Archbishop of Burgos). He is the successor of the apostles.”

“For nothing in the world do I leave my Mother the Church”

“For nothing in the world do I leave my Mother the Church and for nothing in the world do I leave my obedience to the successor of Saint Peter, who at this moment is Pope Francis,” he stated, before criticizing that the decision was not legal “without having had a chapter meeting.” In this sense, another moment of the interview, she adds: “I was surprised that they made such a serious decision without counting on the community chapter. Such a decision cannot be made without the chapter and there has been no meeting. They have given me everything done.”

According to the testimony of Sister María Amparo, regarding the meeting of the excommunicated false bishop, Rojas insisted on her position, assuring that the decision had been made “a long time ago and that everyone agreed,” which was not possible because, she replied, “Sister Pilar and I didn’t know anything and neither did the elders,” to which Rojas replied that “just having a majority was enough.”

These statements confirm the suspicions expressed by the Archbishopric of Burgos and the Bishopric of Vitoria, as well as by the Spanish Episcopal Conference, regarding the lack of unanimity in the decision, since both the letter and the manifesto of schismatic content and sedevacantist proclamations only They are signed by the Abbess, Sister Isabel de la Trinidad.

“In the end, he told me that if I did not agree to be under his jurisdiction, I would have to leave. “That’s so blunt,” Sister María Amparo continues to relate.

Since leaving Belorado, where she had been for 20 years (after 24 in the Vitoria monastery and another 18 as an active nun), Sister María Amparo has returned to the Burgos monastery on one occasion: “I was seeing them for a bit and I won’t go back again. She simply made me feel sorry for her.”

On the other hand, the Poor Clare nun, who was able to speak by phone with some of her relatives to reassure them about how she is (“very well, calm, but in a lot of pain”), explained that the abbess did not hinder her decision to leave. leave the convent.

Furthermore, she has expressed doubts about whether all the sisters agree with the step taken “because they did not express anything” before the schismatic declaration was known. “It seems that it is normal for them, that they are happy… but I have not been able to talk to them about this topic at all,” she acknowledges.

Asked if they will change their mind, she points out: “I don’t know, everyone is free to do that. “You have to pray a lot to the Holy Spirit to have light.”