{"id":14221,"date":"2021-07-08T02:38:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T06:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palabranueva.net\/setenta-y-cinco-anos-contagiando-esperanza\/"},"modified":"2021-07-08T04:31:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T08:31:00","slug":"seventy-five-years-spreading-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palabranueva.net\/en\/seventy-five-years-spreading-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Seventy-five years spreading hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the heart of Vedado, in Havana, there is a book with live pages; I am going to tell you his story.<\/p>\n

It is about our dear Mar\u00eda Jes\u00fas Miranda Juango, the little nun with a giant heart and lavish hands. She was born in Aizoain, Navarra, from the marriage formed by Don Tom\u00e1s and Do\u00f1a Julia, on January 13, 1928. This home was blessed with the gift of her ten children, of which four would be Servants of Mar\u00eda Ministers of the Sick .<\/p>\n

Our sister made her religious profession on July 4, 1946, in Burlada. A few months later, on February 10, 1947, when the trips were one way but not back, she set sail for Havana, where she came to stay.<\/p>\n

Seventy-four years have witnessed the \u201cCuban\u201d love that Mar\u00eda Jes\u00fas has been developing in her heart, translating it into concrete gestures of welcome, closeness, openness to integrate cultural diversity, a different climate, the ups and downs of history.<\/p>\n

In 1960, she was one of the fourteen Servants of Mary who remained in Havana, after seeing more than two hundred sisters who lived on the island leave. These were difficult times marked by uncertainty, loneliness, and bad weather … Mar\u00eda Jes\u00fas and her thirteen companions decided to continue being that small light that every night illuminated the streets of the city and restored hope to the faces of its poor and sick.<\/p>\n

From 1985 to 2000 she served as novice mistress, teaching young Cubans how to be happy consecrated women, following in the footsteps of Jesus of Nazareth and broadening their hearts to welcome and transform society, from a small, punctual, effective and effective. But perhaps the stage of her life that marks us the most is the one that she began at the end of the year 2000, at the gate of our house of 23 and F. Many people arrive, poor, homeless; all in need of material bread, a medicine or open doors that offer them \u201ca hug of humanity\u201d. And they receive that hug in the merciful gesture of “the mother of all”, as they often say. How many prepared sandwiches! How many glasses of water! How many steps every day, combining patience with kindness, his ninety-three years with a normal working day!<\/p>\n