Lerma Poor Clares in Love With Jesus.

poor Clares
Lerma Monastery
A 43 year-old prioresses has revolutionized an old Poor Clares convent in Spain, turning it onto a magnet for dozens of young professional women.
Sister Veronica joined the Poor Clares Convent of the Ascension founded in 1604 in Lerma (Spain) at time when it was going through a vocations crisis. It was January 22, 1984, and Marijose Berzosa - Sr. Veronica's name prior to entering the convent - decided, at age 18, to leave behind a career in medicine, friends, nightlife and basketball.
"Nobody understood me. There were bets that it would not last, but they did not feel the force of the hurricane that drew me in," says Sr. Veronica. "I was a classic teenager looking for a way out ... and I made a decision in just 15 days."
Sr. Veronica joined the convent which had not seen a new vocation in nearly 23 years.
Sr. Pureza de Maria Lubian, 70, now abbess of the convent in Burgos, was her formation director and remembers her Sr. Veronica as "a lovely girl.
Very noble and very good, recalls Sr. Puerza de Maria. Sr. Veronica was 18 and had a future. She left everything. She followed the call of God. She had a rich personality. She was always a leader. And, spiritually, she had a great vocation.

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• poor clares
• carmelite
• franciscan
• monastery
• jesus
• jesuschrist

[gioiafelice]

Grazie Dio padre Onnipotente per le nuove vocazioni!

[ARCHIVEFOOTAGEDOC]

....non dimentichero' mai quel giorno passato li con loro e con Padre Raniero per girare queste immagini e non dimentichero' mai l'abbraccio di Madre Veronica e di tutte le altre sorelle......un giorno indimenticabile e un ricordo che ancora mi accompagna......

[maracamo]

@LesBuisonnets1,hi There, If you were really interested I could make contact with the Monastery to let you know., or ask them how could you make contact directly with them. It seems there are very well educated nuns so do not think English would be a handicap as for example getting a Visa or the waiting list to join the community. Best Wishes and God bless you.

[threerisingsuns]

@LesBuisonnets1

Yes I believe they do. But Spanish is an easy language to learn. A community like this is worth the extra effort too. (from what I have seen, most Spanish speaking countries generally have the most joyful religious I have seen; very much in love with Our Lord, and it shows.)

[LesBuisonnets1]

+JMJ+ This is SO beautiful, so loving & filled w/the joy of loving Jesus & being loved by Him. Thank you! There is no monastic community that's anything like this, & no Abbess like this, in the USA: believe me, I've been looking. (Of course I'm not saying there aren't good places & people here.) I'm so glad it's SOMEwhere, however. Does Lerma take Americans who only speak a tiny bit of Spanish if they have a really good ear for languages? This is a serious question. God bless you!