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Alicia Estévez
alicia.estevez@listindiario.com
Yes, like mine, your mother is no longer with you. in this world, if you are among those who never knew theirs or live separated from it by great distances. If you think that you raise your children alone, without the support of someone who watches over them when you turn your back, who raises prayers for them and defends them with the same motherly passion as you do. You would.
Orphan, no
If you think you are an orphan, or an orphan, because the woman who brought you into the world does not walk the earth, you are making a mistake that I made. for many years. I also believed that I had only one mother. And my faith was confined to God. But, while I was going through a terrible situation, a priest recommended to me. I attended a ministry where a group of praying women intercede for those who are there. they come and, miraculously, God puts words of discernment into their mouths. so i found out that my three children and I are protected by someone who watches over us. “The virgin—one of those women told me— she is the one who takes care of your family.”
The girl who prayed
I was surprised very much. She considered the Rosary a litany for old ladies and rarely prayed it. Why? Then, I asked myself, was she coming to protect me, if I hadn’t asked her to? The unknown remained within me. for years. That is the key to finding answers of a spiritual type, God answers them at some point. it happened later, a long time later.
The gift
It was my birthday and my brothers from the Community United in Christ gave me an icon of the Virgin, which I still have. She is not Alone, at her feet there is a girl on her knees with folded hands. I saw myself in that girl when I was studying the Rosary at school and I went into the chapel to pray. Without being sure that she was being heard, she told Marí a about my tribulations back then. Over the years, I forgot those conversations, but she, mother at last, to whom the ingratitude of her children does not change her love for her, followed & oacute; by my side, protective, as always. She is the mother that I have closest to now, with a mantle so wide that it covers my children, brothers and nephews. I know that, before leaving, my mother, doña Mercedes, a devout Mariana, commissioned us to in her care. from there should have May his fidelity also come through the years when I was not able to feel his loving presence in my life.
This Sunday
My parents died, but I am not an orphan, I feel the immense love of God, my father, now more than ever, and of that brave, faithful, beautiful, loving, powerful mother, the captain chosen by God to guide To families in these trying times, the Virgin Mary. The one that the Bible affirms steps on the dragon’s head. Who refuses the protection of a mother with such power? And she is ours, yes, she is also yours. This Sunday, don’t feel alone, or alone, bring her flowers and do the Rosary for her, like this. you will also discover that there, next to you and yours, is your mother, Mary, as much yours and mine as of our Lord Jesus Christ.