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Motus Christi for children in Constantina (Seville)

By 11 March, 2018January 3rd, 2023No Comments

From March 2 to 4, in the monastery of La Victoria de San José, in Constantina (Seville, Spain), a retreat Motus Christi was held for children from 10 to 12 years old, from the parishes of Cádiz and Seville, which have been entrusted to the Idente Missionaries. Two young girls from Cadiz also attended.

The proposed theme was prayer, being taught by the Delegate of Seville, Isabel Orellana Vilches. The missionary sisters of Cádiz prepared some notebooks that contained on their cover some of the points of the orational code of our father Founder, Fernando Rielo. The Delegate of Cádiz, Manoli Blasco Gálvez, has directed several workshops, one of them preparing trisagios, which the group welcomed with special pleasure. Our brother Juan César Ramírez celebrated the masses and administered the sacrament of penance to the attendees.

The different moments of the Motus, such as reflections on the Gospel, communities, prayer and the Eucharist, were combined with games that familiarized them with the Gospel and with the preparation for the artistic Athenaeum. All this has been a great opportunity to live together with the missionary community that lives in the monastery. There always reigned a very beautiful family atmosphere, in which all have shared the monastic tasks with charity and responsibility.

Everyone has gone to their places of origin, taking with them a feeling of gratitude for the experience they have had for the first time of participating in this religious activity, which has allowed them to recognize Christ inside of them, and has inspired them a longing for a deeper living of prayer from now on, that will help them to grow humanly and spiritually. That is the desire they have expressed at the end of the retreat.

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