Rome (Italy). The Commission for liturgical spiritual history, set up in view of the canonization of Sister Maria Troncatti (1883-1969), has elaborated an itinerary to get to know better the figure of the Blessed, her message, and her actuality – starting from the slogan, “Mother, missionary, artisan of peace and reconciliation” – with a video and a note for further reflection proposed on the 25th of each month, in memory of her birth in heaven.
In the 4th video, through the interview with Sister Rosita Molina, Daughter of Maria Auxiliatrice of Sacred Heart Province (ECU), Vicar of the House of St. Domenic Savio of Sucúa, founded by Blessed Maria Troncatti, and in charge of the Pastoral for Canonization, the missionary aspect of Sister Maria’s life is examined in depth.
Sister Rosita describes the characteristics of the missionary life of Sister Maria Troncatti:
“She was a woman who had the clear awareness that she had been chosen by God to be a missionary. She felt she was an instrument of God, so that with her hands, with her wisdom, she healed, healed and did all the good possible.
She was a woman of God, a woman of prayer. We see her every day getting up at four in the morning to go to church and there she prays, recites the rosary, makes the Way of the Cross, before joining the prayer of the community
She was an intuitive woman; she just had to look in the eyes of the person who came to the hospital or whom she went to meet to find out what was needed: if he/she was anemic, needed advice, accompaniment.
She was a woman in outreach, that which Pope Francis asks us to be, outgoing missionaries. She was ahead of her time. She had her room by the window, near the street. At any time of the night, people came to knock because they needed medicine; or she needed to go to a home to help someone who was dying; or because a woman could not give birth. Sister Maria got up at any hour, took her bag, and went into the jungle with all its dangers, but with an incredible love, like the great missionary according to the heart of God.”
The material is offered to be developed, expanded, and adapted to contexts to promote knowledge of the figure of Sister Maria Troncatti in the Educating Communities, among young people, in the local Church, and in the territory of belonging. The module is edited by Sister Eliane Petri and a group of FMA of the Spirituality Course of Mother Canta House.
Que maravilla saber que Sucúa tiene una mujer Santa Dios la tenga en su gloria y pueda seguir siendo esa mujer que cuida de nosotros los mortales