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<\/p>\nI come from a Catholic family, I had an uncle who was a priest and three religious aunts, who have since passed away. I have lived in an environment with figures consecrated to God. I remember that when I was three years old I wanted to be a nun, I wanted to stay with one of my aunts whom I went to visit.<\/p>\n
But when I was fourteen, when I expressed my desire to enter a convent, they were against it, saying that I was too young, that I did not know what life was, that I did not know what love was, according to them. So, I was forgotten until I was sixteen years old, when I got my hands on a weekly magazine about the Missionaries of Jesus, Word and Victim. At that time, I did not catch the name. I was struck by the image of a Mother on horseback and the title that read: “The Gaucho Nuns”. I read the life, the charisma, and I loved it very much. I told my mother “if God calls me, I want to be a member of this congregation”. Then with the hustle and bustle of life and friendships, I began to move away from my desire.<\/p>\n
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I started studying medicine in college. But I began to have health problems. That doctors could not cure because they were spiritual problems that manifested themselves in the physical. I always clung to prayer, confession, communion and Holy Mass. God was beginning to call me again. The doctors recommended rest, rest. I knew it was something else but I did not want to accept it. At the age of 19, I got worse. One of my cousins advised my mother to take me to a healer. He made me kneel down, put a white cloth on my head, looked at me and said to my mother: “Your daughter’s problem is her vocation. You cling to it too much, and that’s why she gets physically ill”. We left in silence, we did not comment any more.<\/p>\n
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In May, I resumed my studies. One Sunday I went to Mass at 7 am. and I stayed all day crying, I did not know what was happening to me, actually I did know, God was calling me and it was hard for me to leave the life I was leading, my career, my illusions, everything. Then I called my mother and told her what was happening to me. She knew my desire, and I returned to my homeland. My mother helped me to look for the Mothers, but it seemed impossible, because nobody knew about “gaucho nuns”. I went to the bishopric of Catamarca, Monsignor and nobody knew. I went to the diocese of La Rioja, Monsignor helped me by contacting a priest who knew the Mothers. They gave me several numbers of different Congregations, and at the end, a number with no name. That was it. Mother Crist\u00f3fora answered, very kind and enthusiastic about a vocation. I got to know the Congregation, and I knew its name: Missionaries of Jesus, Word and Victim. When I saw them, I said “this is my Congregation, this is my vocation”.\u00a0 I arrived in San Rafael, at the “Nazareth” Convent, where I was welcomed by the Mothers on July 15, 1996.<\/p>\n
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