MY VOCATION, THE MYSTERY OF GOD...

My vocation, the mystery of God... 

I was born in a small village in the Basque Country in a Christian family of seven children. Our mother wanted us to continue our studies with the Servants of Mary after the local school. It was there that the first call to religious life arrived, through the Superior of the Community. I took part in the spiritual meetings, I loved the Word of God in order to live it, to transmit it. How did she perceive it?

From 1952 to 1956 I was a student at the Aspirat du Refuge, studying at Stella Maris and Saint Anne. I did the Postulancy and Novitiate from 1956 to 1958. 

I was called to go to the Pas de Calais, to a parish... I found myself in a beautiful community where I knew no one. The youngest of the sisters was at the age of my mother!

I lived there for 13 years...Catechesis, YCWB, community animation in the workplace, factory work. These commitments matured me.

After two years of training and work in the social sector in Paris, 13 years in Béarn, social work, ACO, animation of communities in a working-class environment.

All this committed life in the world could only be lived in me through fidelity to the Prayer every morning... The community prayer services...the Eucharist...Regular rereading of life with a religious...

One day, the message of Saint John passed through me, pushed me around, transformed me (1 John 4:7-16).

A rereading of this new call to leave everything for Him, only for Him.... Five years of journeying through the Solitude of Saint Bernard on weekends and during weeks. It was a reading and rereading of the work of the Blessed Father. 

Why there? Why living this radicality with the Bernardines? 

Because they are the same Marian religious family that I loved... 35 years of my presence in this place where God has not finished His work in me...here...

"For the love of your People...of this land...your glory dwells with us" and Mary remains our Star.