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Aurelio
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Hi!Say, since we’re not too far from the beginning of Lent, 2005 and since not all of us can fly off to Lourdes, Rome and the Holy Land every other month or so, why don’t we do something really different this time around?
Like go back to Sixteenth Century Spain and visit with St. Teresa of Avila, or at least one of her present-day successors!
Where would we have to go?
By car we would have to drive maybe an hour and a half south of Del Rio Texas, to Morelos, Coahuila.
What do we find in Morelos?
We find a small town of maybe 2,000 souls many f them very poor and depressed.
But!
We would also find someting else:
Three (3) porders of Catholic sisters, all in the same town.
One order takes care of the very old, poor men and women facing the end of ther life - cycle.
A second order takes care of the very young, children orphaned or abandoned by their parents.
The third order is a carmelite monastery whose mother superior, more of a Saint Teresa of Avila than a Little Flower, set out to build with her 11 sisters, a scaled down model of St. Peter’s in Rome, and did so, one homemade brick at a time.
The relics of St. Theresa the Little Flower were brought to the building site around February 4, 2001, and in honor of the event, the Bishop Of Saltillo drove maybe 250 miles north to say the Tridentine Mass of the Angels in celebration. Starting at around 3 to 4 am in the morning.
We were there. We saw it go up.
Mother Superior’s carmelite nuns specialize in praying for lapsed priests plus counseling troubled young women.
Mother Superior assured us over homemade marmelade and delicious bread and coffee, that she and her sisters say 15 decade of the rosary each and every day.
Good modern motels are everywhere in Del Rio, including Holiday Inn, so finding a place to stay is no problem!
Think about it, why not?
Anybody in charge of a youth group needing information can contact us and we’ll be glad to give it to them.
Morelos. Coahuila, a trip back in time, as well as into the future!
Aurelio