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100 AÑOS MONASTERIO LA VISITACIÓN EN MANIZALES. “Un siglo de silencio y oración”. Documental.
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[Music] 0:38 Currently they are the Father’s favorite daughters 0:45 Heavenly here the incense of fervid rises constantly to heaven 0:52 Prayer thanks to Mother Ana Margarita Ocampo 1:00 Beloved husband beloved Sacred Heart of 1:06 Jesus in 2024 we continue to raise prayers to the father for all 1:16 You centenary of the monastery of the visitation of Santa Maria de 1:27 Manizales for more than a century the order of the visitation of Santa Maria exists 1:32 Founded by San Francisco de Sales and Santa Juana Francisca award of 1:43 Chantal San Francisco de Sales doctor and pastor of the church knowing the desire 1:48 of many women to withdraw from the world to offer their whole life to God and not being able to do so in the orders already 1:55 established due to the great austerities 2:02 by divine inspiration there arose in her heart the need to found a congregation in the church to give God 2:09 daughters of such interior prayer that they are worthy of worshipping Him in spirit and in 2:17 [Music] truth in 2:24 1604 St. Francis de Sales meets the Baroness de Chantal and recognizes in her 2:29 the woman that God has destined for his congregation and understands that with her he can carry out his project as the 2:36 strong and industrious woman of the sacred scriptures knew how to put at the disposal of the congregation all the gifts of 2:43 grace and nature with which God had adorned her and was a faithful interpreter of 2:48 the doctrine and spirit of the founder for his small institute for the 2:53 world we are hidden because the world only sees what is in its 3:00 eyes our life calls us to have a silence but a silence inhabited by 3:06 silence that is increasingly Union with our beloved husband and our life 3:12 It is understood from prayer I reflect in my work in my sisters my Union with 3:20 the Lord that is why it is so important and it is our charisma a life of community lived in fraternity and love 3:28 I love very much in the monastery I ask the Lord to give me the grace to die 3:33 being a nun that allows me to be faithful until the end but the most 3:40 special moment is prayer because it is that encounter with my beloved where I meet him 3:47 and I know myself a life like this is 3:53 explained in a world like today only from the love of God 3:59 the grace of God covers the world but sometimes we do not realize it and 4:05 he as a loving God and in love with us and with the whole world comes out to 4:11 our encounter and invites us to know him and enter into his mystery of 4:17 love on June 6, Sunday of the Holy Trinity of 4:22 1610 the small congregation of the sisters of the visitation was born and in 4:28 1618 it was elevated as an order of the visitation with papal enclosure we 4:34 we were founded first in France anil anil founded Madrid Madrid founded Bogotá and 4:39 already from Bogotá the bishop of the time who was monsignor Tiberio de Jesús Salazar made the request to bring a monastery 4:46 that would have the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus here in Manizales a very dear gentleman had donated them a 4:51 house to make in the foundation [Music] 5:03 [Music] 5:18 our first monastery when it arrived here in Manizales it arrived where the bus terminal used to be 5:26 It is also worth noting that the new monastery to which it was going to be 5:32 The community was moved and had the name of Bethlehem. And that is where we are going to 5:38 continue. We are going to continue this time of retreat, of surrender and service to God, which will be 5:44 for life, to give only Glory to God. When we arrived, we were three 5:50 months without closure. Because people wanted to know and the day the closure was closed, which was January 29, 5:56 in 1925, there were already four postulants and with them, the 6:02 foundation began. The sisters were buying little houses with the desire to build their monastery, but things would not be the 6:09 closure is a privileged closed place where Jesus Christ, the husband 6:16 alive and resurrected, invites his wife to live with him, telling her, come 6:23 My wife, I will take you to the Desert and I will speak to your heart. And that departure to 6:28 Desert implies eh certain breakups because when we say yes to our 6:33 beloved Jesus, it implies leaving our relatives, family, friends, titles 6:38 professionals and everything we liked about the world to live with him and no 6:44 it means as they think that it is that they come as closed-in failures or 6:49 that they came to flee from the world and that they are selfish No, on the contrary, it is because 6:55 we have chosen a living Jesus and to unite ourselves with him to live a stronger love and 7:01 as Saint Paul said, I saw the cloistered walls of a monastery are walls of 7:08 crystal where light and Hope for all humanity radiate, one of the parts 7:14 that impacted me the most when I arrived at the monastery was the cloistered door, the external sister was showing us, because 7:20 the places in the house were was showing us the places in the house 7:20 we arrived at the cloistered door and I was surprised to see or rather to see how that separation that I 7:26 saw as a sign of separation and in me some words sprang forth that I will not forget and that still 7:32 resonate in my heart F to tell you Lord When will you allow me to pass through that door when I finished saying those words 7:38 internal I said what am I saying or what am I saying for God because there I did not feel the call 7:44 But as it became stronger I felt that an abyss was opening in my heart that told me you must pass through there 7:50 and to know when the Lord gives me the grace to know I could have entered as if into that perfect mold in that 7:57 Heart of Jesus in in in in that unfathomable Abyss of love that fills it everything 8:02 many times they ask us, do you not need to go out? Do you need to go and know part of our vocation? 8:09 We find everything in the heart of Jesus and it is that He is an unfathomable love. He has all the treasures of 8:15 love with which I can fill that great Abyss that I have inside me that the things of the world cannot fill. 8:21 So it has been like that experience of love. It is that knowledge of what it is to know the enclosure that the enclosure is. 8:27 That holy mountain that the Lord calls me to be with him. That is the reserved place. 8:33 For me, the Lord does not call everyone because God has vocations for everyone. He called us to this Holy Mountain. 8:38 In which we can say like Saint Peter, Lord, let us make three huts. Why? Because if yes, yes, this is the place. 8:45 Of Your delights. Well, I want to remain in it. The meaning of the gate is very beautiful because for us 8:52 it is the sign of love it is the eh spousal freedom where Jesus guards and protects 9:01 his beloved wives and it is the way to show the world that we only 9:06 belong to [Music] 9:12 he the Sacred Heart of Jesus is the Incarnation of the love of the Father of the Son 9:19 and of the Holy Spirit towards each one of us human beings and it is a treasure that has been given to us at the order of 9:26 the visitation of Saint Mary so that through our Holy sister Margaret Mary lac so that we 9:33 enrich ourselves with it and we can make it known to the whole world eh we call it 9:38 the devotion or spirituality of the Sacred Heart of Jesus because it asks us for a 9:44 consecration of our whole being to him and the configuration of our heart with 9:50 the heart of him that is meek and humble we invite you to take refuge in this 9:56 loving heart where they will find strength, happiness, peace, 10:02 comfort and everything they need when our sisters 10:09 came here to found more or less in the year 1939 they already had a large part of the monastery 10:16 built when the municipal government sent a decree saying that they should 10:21 widen streets and avenues in that sector great sadness for all our sisters since this implied demolishing 10:29 a meter and a half on each of its sides the monastery that with so much effort they had brought forward is 10:36 when our mother Ana Margarita ooc campo decides to resort to a trust 10:42 that she had since her childhood since she was very fond of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and proposes to the 10:48 community to do the campaign of the I trust this consisted during the day to tell 10:55 the Sacred Heart of Jesus in you I trust and the goal was to reach a million and soon this million was reached and 11:02 many more than those offered to the Lord and this was like a pile that was being held in the heart of Jesus and 11:09 of course the heart of Jesus does not let itself be won over in generosity a little while later they come to visit our 11:15 sister María Magdalena Gómez her family and tells her that in a neighborhood of 11:21 Manizales they are making an organization and that there it seems to them that there is a very 11:27 beautiful lot nearby in which they can acquire it for the new monastery our mother feels a hunch and says to the 11:34 sisters if this is the work of the Lord it will happen and they redouble this prayer then our mother decides to call 11:40 Mrs. Merceditas Mejía de Uribe who was the owner of this lot within 11:45 The comments that our mother made with the sisters, those who knew this place said that it was very beautiful since 11:52 On one hand, there was the beautiful mountain that allowed you to see the snow-capped mountains and on the other hand, you could see the sunset 12:00 with its beautiful sunsets, which motivated praise to the glorification of God and prayer 12:06 When our mother communicated with this lady, she told her that she was thinking of selling this lot but that she had not 12:12 put it up for sale by our mother, trusting in the savings she had in the heart of Jesus since economically 12:19 she did not have ban with resources tells her that if please wait until she talks to her again to see if she can acquire 12:27 the lot the lady says happily that of course she will wait since she would very much like this land that 12:34 had belonged to her family to remain in the hands of a religious community 12:39 which would praise God through prayer and would house a Tabernacle 12:59 I have been a nun for 69 years 13:04 I entered when I was 15 and I have always been happy 13:10 this Holy convent had not been built 13:23 I have been a nun for 69 years and in those 69 years I have been very happy and my 13:31 religious life because I have never lacked the grace of God when one takes the habit or speaks the profession they are 13:39 very happy moments because one gives oneself more fully to God And as before 13:44 the community was collecting funds to build the monastery then 13:49 we did not buy much stuff on the street but here we raised chickens and pigs and all that was like 13:58 help for the community to collect funds and we did not have to buy eggs or meat 14:03 outside almost our mother tells the president of the guard of honor 14:09 who at that time was Doña María Mejía de Restrepo and the lady accepts 14:14 this request days later she speaks with her daughter Inés Restrepo Mejía and 14:20 they also agree with Miss Margarita Arbela Gómez they decide to buy 14:25 the lot that at that time cost them 25,000 they tell this to the community 14:31 and the community that finds out in the midday obedience raises a prayer to God of Thanksgiving and 14:37 sings a Tedeo that was beautiful to see that the sisters within the daily tasks that they did raised 14:44 constantly this this beautiful ejaculation Sacred Heart of Jesus in you 14:50 I trust very surely that when these sisters went to rest at night their heart was in unison with this 14:57 prayer and that is why the heart of Jesus is doing all its work the day eh 15:03 August 4, 1945 the deeds were signed and 15:10 this lot was given to the community. Consequently these Good benefactors 15:16 receive from our community the brotherhood of the order that makes them worthy of all the benefits 15:23 prayers and merits worldwide of our community finally our 15:29 sisters on April 30, 1950 accompanied by Monsignor Baltazar 15:35 Álvarez placed the first stone of this monastery and the stone bore the 15:40 inscription Sacred Heart of Jesus in you I trust the miracles that happened 15:46 here were many since the sisters could see how at the end of a month they did not have money to pay the 15:53 workers and the Sacred Heart was in charge of sending a donation in which the money arrived just to 15:59 pay the workers that day not one peso more or one peso less suddenly the material ran out and a 16:06 donation arrived in which they gave or 10 cement buckets or donated brick or donated material for the construction Who was 16:13 the one who moved their hearts our Lord Jesus Christ for [Music] 16:26 supposedly on this first day our monastery could not be left to our 16:31 Lord in the current infirmary where we had fixed the chapel because it did not have the required security during the 16:39 day we worked on this on Wednesday the chaplain celebrated the Eucharist for the entire 16:45 community already gathered and there he transferred the divine guest to the new home 16:51 where we fervently asked him to live until the end of time surrounded by 16:56 his visitors in October we moved the little chapel from the infirmary hall to 17:03 what would be the chapter as it is connected by a staircase to the hallway 17:08 of the infirmary can be outside the cloister and thus the priests can celebrate every time you give it to our 17:15 Mother Maria Luisa Botero wanted to leave a monument made in thanksgiving 17:21 to the Blessed Virgin Mary collecting the best stones that were left over from the 17:27 cloister wall they raised the Grotto for the image of the Virgin of Lourdes Mr. Ernesto 17:34 Botero brother of our Mother Luisa gave us the little virgin and by the grace 17:40 of God the Duque Henker family gave us the image of Bernadette and a 17:47 devout lady gave a donation to pay the workers 18:01 we could say like the apostle Saint John if all the miracles that were experienced in this monastery were counted they would not fit 18:08 the books either and that is why we can say that each stone, each brick 18:13 that each rod, each grain of cement of sand bears the seal 18:19 of the Sacred Heart of Jesus the bell for us is the voice 18:26 of the husband who calls us to meet him at the different exact times we are invited to prepare 5 minutes before and 18:32 dispose our hearts to receive all the graces that our Lord wants to pour into our souls 18:39 sister bell ringer is the voice of the Angel for us the community, that is, the voice of grace that tells us that our Lord 18:45 is waiting for us with his open heart to pour out all his love in our hearts and in the heart of 18:51 humanity, each sister is identified with a bell ring and also each act is identified with a bell ring 18:58 that is, each bell tells us where we are going, where we are headed or if they are 19:04 calling us 19:19 [Music] 19:27 I came for the first time when I was 15 years old, I had no experience, I met them 19:33 when I was 15 years old, the person in charge of the honor guard of Armenia 19:38 always told me that I had a vocation, the truth is I was always very apart 19:43 from religious life, that is, from all the plans that was the last one for me. I said that I was never going to be a nun and He 19:50 He told me that I had a vocation and he insisted a lot on me doing an experience but I always avoided him when 19:56 I lived an experience of a Pentecost retreat. I began to feel something very 20:02 strong in my heart that burned me and that was where I told him that I wanted to do the experience but we only talked to the mother 20:10 superior at the time for three days. She gave me the opportunity to do the experience. When I arrived here for the first time, I 20:17 felt that what my heart had longed for all my life was to be a visitor. It is a calling, a vocation that 20:25 we receive from God. One does not expect it. One day I met the visitation. I 20:31 was very impressed to see the sisters because I said, oh, there are still sisters like with the habit because in itself 20:39 well, one is used to seeing sisters of active life and their way of treating people. because I always 20:44 found that charity in the external sister who received me, I always found that smile and that charity 20:49 how to be happy that we came to visit them, what has surprised me most about the visitation is that or 20:55 it is the Charity with which people are treated and in itself it is our charisma, it is a community life lived in charity and 21:01 love and whenever I see the visitation I see how that taste for treating people well, 21:07 knowing that people are important because they are children of God and that is how I feel when my sisters 21:14 greet me, they smile at me, it is to see that joy that one says Lord thank you because it is you who is smiling at me. Well, I 21:21 had the opportunity of that Well, to be born in a family full of much love and to humanly have everything that the world 21:28 demands to be happy. But even so, I was not happy. I felt an emptiness in my heart. that I could not fill with anything was like 21:35 a great thirst but I did not know what I tried to find that happiness in many things that the world offered me and when 21:41 I thought I was happy it turned out to be an ephemeral happiness when I got here I understood that real happiness is 21:48 very different from what the world offers you the happiness that comes from God is born from the small from the simple from 21:55 the insignificant is a happiness that is born from the Cross and there I understood that even in pain and in what costs you, you are 22:02 happy and there is a joy that does not go out that is not ephemeral because it comes from [Music] 22:09 [Applause] God a true daughter of the visitation 22:17 is a soul that has no other spirit than that of Jesus Christ who lives in the 22:22 most intimate union with God in the most perfect self-denial same 22:29 in the deepest humility in the most constant Peace and in a charity the most 22:35 extensive with the neighbor is a soul that is free from all earthly and dead 22:42 to the world and to itself united to Jesus Christ crucified is entirely consecrated 22:49 to his service and to his love detaches itself from all care and from its passions does not occupy its 22:56 heart or spirit but in God fears shining as much as sinning and fears 23:04 sinning more than dying here in the monastery All that 23:11 we do is work and this work becomes prayer each sweeping each mopping the dough of bread this work 23:18 is done for all our brothers of the world especially we do a lot for the priests each one 23:24 is doing for example when cutting a cookie sir I am cutting this this cookie for salvation of such and such such 23:32 person and I join that I join that person, Lord, everything I’m doing here I’m doing in acts 23:37 of love of reparation for this world that is so so so fallen since I was little 23:43 I have liked the bakery a lot since I was very little, I liked it when I got here because it was very different 23:50 the way I knew it from what they gave me here so cousin I had to learn what they taught me here 23:58 no matter how tired you are you don’t get tired you arrive at night and you arrive happy before the Lord before the s thank you 24:06 Lord why have you given me this this job I’m tired but happy too 24:12 I wanted Let us share with you something that is an essential part of our life and it is the offering that we offer to the Father 24:20 The greatest gift that the heart of his beloved Son has given us is what we offer him 24:26 In our comings and goings through our cloisters and united to him our 24:31 sufferings, our sorrows, the joys, the small acts of love, the 24:37 conquests, the smiles, that coming out of ourselves to serve our brother 24:44 We offer it for each one of you and for all those who do not know us 24:49 so that one day you can experience the joy of knowing and loving the Lord. I 24:55 joy when those bushes are withered and I see them and I talk to them and all the 25:01 little things and I pour water on them, of course, Lord, soak all the little rooms too, that in these moments need the water, the 25:08 freshness of everything. So much so much we are needing in this world 25:13 we get up at a quarter to 5 then they give us 40 minutes to 25:18 get organized And well then we go down to the choir we sing the lauds 25:27 then we start the prayer which is one hour personal prayer where we are 25:33 all girls in the school eh at 7 in the morning the holy mass well sometimes 25:39 we pray the Holy Rosary after the holy mass other times we do the spiritual reading it depends on what 25:45 is going to happen Well just like on the day there is a conference or well something special we go to have breakfast 25:52 and then we have that free time if it is the reading we do it and if not those who are 25:59 we go to the offices we call the offices here all the parts of the work the lingerie white clothes 26:06 the wardrobe where are the clothes, the habits, the vestry, all those are offices 26:13 we then each one of us has the work, well, during the day we go to 26:19 work at 11 in the morning it’s time for the reading service, it lasts about half an hour, at 11:30 we leave, we have 26:27 a little while ago, book reading, well, everything for lunch, which is at 12, we leave lunch, we 26:34 we all go to the kitchen to wash the dishes, then 26:40 we leave, we have the recreation, we have a bicycle, we have 26:45 skates, we have basketball, and yes, we have all those little things there to 26:51 share, so nice, that’s how nice it is to share. I always say, Oh, when we’re all together, I love that we’re all 26:57 together, because there are times, for example, if there are sick sisters in the Well, they’re in the infirmary or they’re in 27:02 street or something I feel like I’m empty and I say Oh we’re not together we’re missing Janita we’re missing Panita I love it 27:09 being sharing with everyone that’s very nice if it ends we’ll leave at the mid hour we’ll leave eh more or less 27:17 eh 2:30 We’re free until 3:30 if we haven’t done the reading by 27:24 tomorrow at that time we’ll do it at 4 it’s the something They give us half an hour for vespers 27:32 already in the afternoon Well there’s special training according to the topic the superior will set dinner in the afternoon at 7 27:39 at night then then it’s the compline which is then the final hour of 27:45 the liturgy to finish then for the break and we leave already quiet with the 27:52 greater silence that we call that we don’t talk anymore well nothing and at 10 27:58 night Now all We have to have all the lights 28:03 turned off night Well although our life is characterized Well by having let’s say stipulated schedules for 28:10 for each activity we avoid falling into routine and the key is a word 28:15 love Saint John in the first letter says that God is love itself So if we feel The voice of the husband who 28:22 calls us in the bell if we feel when we go to the choir when we go to a common activity when we 28:28 achieve supernatural zar that we are offering it to people who suffer So if we are aware 28:34 of each day there is something to offer different we do not get bored we do not feel routine because we see the novelty in everything 28:41 of love being God love we achieve how to feel that that joy in the heart that joy of doing everything for him and for 28:48 him and also well inviting the Blessed Virgin Mary a lot because well she does know please your son Then 28:54 she makes everything new there is even a very beautiful phrase that he says to his mother true mother I make new 29:00 all things eh I am a dentist by profession eh the truth is it is a very beautiful career I always liked it a lot 29:07 maxillary orthopedics since I started it seemed like something very beautiful to work with children I liked it a lot without 29:13 however in the middle Well of the practice of patient care eh I felt that something was missing like a 29:18 void that I could not fill in the middle Well of the professional practice I entrusted myself to the Lord and I asked him for the grace that he would show me what he was asking me for I felt that it was a way of of of to help people and to serve being Well in the 29:31 dentistry but it was like a total call I felt like I left because I said well the Lord, I can 29:37 dedicate myself to the committed lay life and be serving from my profession I decided to do it as an experience 29:43 in the visitation and I found what I was looking for I felt that I felt full I felt that everything was like light life 29:49 eh monastic silence because really outside there are many noises 29:55 many things that we find here that life of recollection with the loved one here I feel happy and I feel that I have 30:01 made the best decision our Holy founder says that we must have a love 30:06 very jealous for the keeping of silence because this virtue is the mother of 30:11 prayer and custody of the heart and its fruits are so great that in the houses 30:17 where it is faithfully kept they breathe much of our sanctity life 30:22 contemplative requires silence and contemplation this silence is not empty but is 30:30 active presence in the living God silence of Communion with God is also 30:36 a charitable silence because we always speak when Charity requires it 30:43 [Music] 30:59 this office is a really beautiful office because 31:05 it is becoming aware that the pine is being made that at one moment will be the precious blood of our 31:11 lord to see how from a raw material that is the grape and the water a 31:17 process is carried out that later in the hands of a priest will become the blood of our lord is something very great and 31:26 each process that is made of the wine is not done in prayer in those prayers we ask 31:31 for the priests for the people who are going to participate in the holy mass for 31:36 the sinners the patron of this office or the protector is Saint Joseph and the 31:42 Blessed Virgin is the one who helps us in the whole process of wine for me it is a great grace that the Lord has 31:50 allowed us to be able to make the Eucharistic forms we make quite a quantity 31:56 for all the chapels of salts after making them they will go to all the altars 32:03 of the chapels and they will be consecrated and that is that intimate Union between the soul and 32:10 Jesus Christ and that is like that sacred kiss that the Lord gives each one of us is 32:15 very important because I know that each thing I do will become the body 32:22 of Christ a religious of the visitation 32:30 runs to the voice of her God and follows all his inspirations she continually makes new 32:37 sacrifices to correspond to his love and in the Delights of 32:43 contemplation she enjoys his sweet and holy favors and tender and intimate 32:50 communications from the heavenly husband is purified by dryness and in all 32:57 positions she does not seek anything other than to know the designs that God has 33:03 on her she does not desire with anxiety nor aspire with ardour but for the sacred banquet to 33:11 where Jesus invites her and feeds her from himself 33:17 our holy father Francis de Sales himself wants us, his daughters 33:22 to have our feet well shod and a naked heart. What does this mean that 33:27 we do not put the emphasis on external austerities but on the interior? To have a 33:33 stripped heart is to know how to let go of our own ideas to adhere to 33:38 the ideas of the other sisters is to know how to let go of our own will to follow that of God, thus we always seek 33:46 to have that heart stripped of everything of ours inclinations, passions and moods to see in everything the will of 33:53 God and to follow it we make three vows that is to say we promise the Lord 33:59 three things to live in poverty in chastity and in obedience poverty for us 34:04 is a vow of great freedom Living in poverty is to have only the heart 34:09 placed in the Lord and that he be our only wealth and our only everything we 34:15 commit to not using anything as our own we do not say Hey my broom my 34:20 habit but our broom our habit everything is ours and not only 34:25 as if we were saying it with our lips but from the heart not to have that attachment to anything of the earth to goods or 34:33 to space because let’s say we live eh always in the same place we do not travel we are not going to 34:40 one place to the other but that we are always here in the monastery, that vow of poverty frees us, it gives us that 34:47 freedom to tell the Lord only you are the most important in my life and 34:52 we have several very beautiful practices, eh, above all one is that every year we change the cross and the rosary, eh, like that 35:01 sign that nothing belongs to us and it is very beautiful because one knows that one has renounced 35:06 many things to choose someone greater who fills the heart with happiness 35:12 inside this Cross we carry the relics of our holy father Francis de Sales of our saint 35:19 mother Juana Francisca our holy sister Margaret Mary we always carry the relic of another saint and we do not know 35:26 Who is it? All year long we use it and say Who will be the saint who is looking after me this year and when we 35:34 uncover it, our mother gives us permission Well, when we open it we realize Oh, Saint Pius accompanied me, so did Saint Mary 35:40 goretti Saint John of the Cross and he is like that protector who looks after us throughout 35:46 the year I felt in my heart something that I cannot explain an 35:51 infinite desire for true freedom And I thought to myself I want to be free I 35:59 want to be completely happy and to do that I have to be like the sister 36:05 give my life to God in the service of others I began my nursing 36:11 with a lot of enthusiasm it cost me a lot I was very young and I saw a 36:16 drop of blood I was already fainting all those difficulties I overcame with the 36:22 desire I was eager to be a nurse and then become a nun 36:29 a missionary when we went to receive the service the sister told me with other 36:35 companions you are going to be in such a place you are going to take care of a sister who 36:41 had surgery last night they amputated her second leg and you are going to take care of her today 36:47 We are going to go greet her we entered the first thing that struck me was 36:53 the habit of the sister who accompanied her sister sister Teresa 36:58 Margarita Jaramillo but nothing more we went to the patient the sister was in bed 37:06 and a nurse moved to one side the sister to the other and I was 37:11 learning I went to the foot of the bed to observe the sister the sister 37:19 sick tried to get up very cordially a sister of more or less 37:24 a little more than 70 years old, she tried to get up and the nurse and the sister from the clinic 37:32 helped her a little to get her up. And when they tried to get her up, they 37:40 held her up, they just helped her a little and the sister was also helping herself with her arms, but when 37:48 she sat down, she lost all balance and fell face down on the bed 37:54 It was a matter of seconds. The sister reacted immediately. The sister from the clinic 38:00 The nurse and the sister immediately lifted her up and sat her on the bed 38:06 When they sat her down, as I was in front, the sister was bathed in 38:15 tears. Our sister Maria’s face was bathed in tears 38:21 Gertrudis was not very pretty. But she had sky-blue eyes 38:28 I always felt like the sky was coming out 38:33 through the eyes of this nun, then, with her blue eyes full of tears 38:39 When they put her in bed she immediately opened her arms in a cross 38:46 She had been a very tall person Therefore her arms were long and large she opened her 38:53 arms and with a loud voice said Lord here are my arms if you 39:02 want you can take mine too. That gesture struck me 39:10 I was very young and well. That was like the first encounter 39:16 that I had with the visitation. The liturgy of the hours is the prayer that 39:21 the church has entrusted to us as contemplative nuns. In it we make our 39:27 requests, the feelings of our hearts and we take them to the heart of 39:33 God. To the extent that we sing the praises of the Lord, we enrich our 39:39 journey. We meet five times a day to sing, to praise, to bless the 39:45 Lord, also to pray, to tell him. that we love him that we need him that he is 39:51 a vital part of our life as you can see we have our hands 39:58 together united and in it we have the liturgy of the hours and always 40:03 internally each contemplative nun to the extent that she carries her book is like 40:09 if she held up the world and our voice reaches to the ends of the earth 40:14 when I was 17 years old while still in school I felt the call I didn’t know how 40:21 to explain it but I simply felt a strong attraction to be in this place 40:26 the day I entered it was the most beautiful experience of my life it was as if a fish 40:32 had entered the water I realized that I had been born for this place here 40:38 the great mystery of my life was revealed to me discovering that the Lord was calling me to be 40:43 the nurse of his heart so one of our sisters shared it with me and it fascinated me completely my heart there 40:51 three things that impacted me from the visitation the spirit of simplicity 40:57 that knowing that there is nothing small in the eyes of God and that everything we do has an infinite value as well as 41:05 discovering that in today’s world there are so many things and that people seek eh to have many things to aspire to or 41:12 accumulating titles is knowing that this handful of women are so happy 41:18 doing things as small as sweeping, mopping, cooking, making bread eh that to me 41:24 it impacted me a lot from the first day I arrived how do they manage to be so happy and do things as 41:31 simple and I discovered that it is because happiness is in living the moment 41:36 present colmán the thing about the love of God the order f the visitation is under the 41:41 protection of the Blessed Virgin from the beginning since it was founded eh the sisters were called the daughters of 41:48 Saint Mary or the Holy Mary has impacted me a lot because she has been the beacon of my vocation my friend my mother my 41:56 teacher all things I have found in the Blessed Virgin and she is the one who has always led us to Jesus 42:03 and the third thing that impacted me a lot was knowing that we live as sisters knowing that we support each other that we love each other and that in 42:11 Christ we are encouraging each other every day to be faithful to love more and more 42:16 to 42:26 Lord 42:56 to 43:26 to 43:56 to 44:26 to 44:56 to 45:28 is interested in receiving new communities So you are interested in receiving new communities. They can 45:34 return Then I called the monsignor very sad and I told him he said Ah well 45:40 So let me go, I have three bishops in Korea who are very good friends and I have a Bishop in a diocese that is 45:48 doing it is a diocese on the border that is a poor nascent diocese that 45:54 has nothing and I told him monsignor perfect we are poor we have nothing 46:01 we are very few That is the best place for us the Sacred Heart took us out on 46:08 June 30, 2007 took us out of Egypt and brought us to the 46:15 promised land for us The centenary of our monastery means that like knowing all 46:24 the mercies that God has had with our foundation through these 100 46:29 years it has been a knowing the history has been knowing how Our first mothers and founding sisters spent 46:37 their whole lives giving everything for the love of the sacred heart and they came to found this city. It has been like seeing how 46:44 a city welcomes us with that joy. How it takes care of us and how we see the Providence of God manifested through 46:51 so many people and so many benefactors who help us. It is seeing how God supports us. How He loves us. It is 46:58 seeing that tenderness of a father who takes care of each one of us. In short, it has been that 47:03 commemorating that remembering that giving thanks. And that saying, Lord, thank you because you are 47:09 faithful. Thank you because you support us and thank you for loving us so much. It is a gift from 47:15 God for these 100 years and thank him for being able to live them with all the sisters 47:22 who are now here, who are also a gift from God and to present to him all the 47:27 who are already in the Heaven is very important to me because it means that the visitation is not 47:34 ending, it has been a long time, many sisters have passed through this 47:39 monastery, many sisters who are very holy and by the mercy of God 47:45 well, we still have many vocations and the Lord increases them every day 47:52 our eh our vocation gives us the joy to continue in it from the 47:59 moment when I entered the cloister door I felt happy and 48:05 since then I am very happy because the truth is that here 48:11 I have found what I was looking for, that is to say Christ to my divine husband and in him I can 48:19 save many souls and from here my life is missionary, it is apostolic and I can 48:25 go from my cloister, from my life of prayer and recollection, go to all parts of the 48:30 world to be a missionary That is why I am happy, I feel very happy to be the wife of Jesus 48:37 to share with him the same life, to know that he renounces all the loves of the earth to choose that which is love 48:44 with a capital letter, that love that fills the deepest desires of the human heart 48:50 I also feel very happy to know that through my prayer and through my life of daily dedication I am the mother of humanity 48:58 mother of all people, of those who suffer, of those who feel sad 49:03 alone, overwhelmed, of those who carry very heavy burdens in their hearts. Yes, with the 49:09 grace of God, I would become a nun again because it is my vocation. We celebrate with 49:15 joy. The centenary of the monastery of the visitation of Santa Maria in 49:21 Manizales, in our lands this charisma also flourished, which since 49:29 1610, through the work of Saint Francis de Sales and Saint Joan Francis of Chantal 49:36 It exists in the world producing a number of fruits of Christian Life. 49:44 Of course we are talking about a monastery for nuns, but no monastery, and even less so this one, is closed off in 49:51 itself, although the nuns are cloistered, that is to say, they are incardinated in their 49:58 monastery and do not leave there again, at least in the ideal. 50:03 They have a missionary dimension that makes them capable of touching hearts, eh. 50:11 Maybe in series, because of the people who visit them and receive their teachings. 50:16 And they transmit them to others, but above all, because of the strength of their prayer that makes them invaluable intercessors in any 50:23 diocese of the world, but also in any diocese of the world for the whole 50:28 world, they live in an atmosphere of profound solitude, silence, and surrender. 50:34 Lord, that does not take away that also 50:39 They live in a community, very beautiful moments of recreation, and they themselves find them in community life. 50:46 One of the most beautiful expressions of His charisma is the solitude that each one of them seeks. 50:52 They seek solitude with Jesus. It is that solitude that the desert of the 50:58 Old Testament, the desert through which the people of Israel passed, favored. 51:04 In order to be able to free themselves from all things that are worldly and that distract them from dedicating themselves to 51:10 the contemplation of the missions of God. A contemplative is one who does precisely this. 51:17 One can be contemplative in action, that is, in everyday life or 51:23 contemplative in the monastery. But in any case, the essence of this life consists in always looking with the eyes of the soul. 51:31 Or, if you prefer, with the eyes of faith. 51:36 Revelation of God our Lord contained in the sacred scripture 51:41 Especially in the mysteries of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Church as they have been revealed to us in the 51:48 New Testament to enjoy the presence of God and communicate it to others 51:56 With all these details that I tell you, I want to tell you that as a diocesan 52:01 pastor, I feel honored to be able to celebrate the Centennial year of the 52:08 presence of this monastery among us. Several bishops and several archbishops of Manizales have passed through these 52:15 lands. Surely most of them have had a very close relationship with the sisters of the visitation of 52:22 Manizales. And of course, all have received from the grace of their prayers 52:29 a very special help for their ministry. Now when we celebrate this 52:34 Centennial, we hope that the strength of a celebration like this will not only 52:41 help all the sisters who currently make up the community of Manizales to 52:46 grow spiritually but also encourage many young women who precisely 52:52 because they want to dedicate their intelligence and their will totally to God our 52:58 Lord know that by this path one grows like no other path May the Lord 53:04 bless this order with special graces that bless the monastery of 53:10 Manizales with gifts and with many presents from heaven and that above all grant them 53:18 many religious vocations that continue eh with this work that helps us all 53:24 and encourages us all give to the beloved sisters of 53:29 the monastery of the visitation my Pastoral blessing with infinite affection 53:37 on the days of its centenary celebration in the name of the father and the Son and of 53:44 Holy Spirit Sacred Heart of [Music] 53:49 Jesus in you 53:55 I trust Sacred Heart of 54:00 Jesus in you 54:06 I trust Sacred Heart of 54:11 Jesus in you 54:17 I trust Sacred Heart of 54:22 Jesus I trust in you [Music] 54:29 Meek and humble Jesus of 54:37 [Music] heart make my heart like yours 54:46 [Music] make my 54:52 heart like yours foreign 54:58 [Music]