We are a Congregation that follows Jesus the Good Samaritan, living in community, as free women, passionate about life, united by love, prayer, and service”. This is the meaning of Sisters Hospitaller for Sr Lourdes Vieira. This Sister, originally from Brazil but resident in Pasto, Colombia, explains in first person the meaning of being a Sister and a hospitaller.
How is the Sisters Hospitallers mission lived in your centre?
As a Hospitaller family, we help and support each other in a warm, humane, and professional environment. Everyone gives the best for themselves to make others feel good.
How do you think that the Hospitaller Mission contributes to creating a most equal society by opening up ways of emancipation and hope for women? I am involved in coordinating vocations ministry for young people in Latin America, supporting young people, and participating in the final decisions at the mental hospital of Nuestra Señora del Perpetuo Socorro in Pasto, Colombia. Sisters Hospitallers promote leadership and encourage women in different aspects of their lives around the world.
What has been your most rewarding experience at the centre? There are many joyful and happy moments in my hospitaller mission life, but there is nothing that fills my heart more than seeing people committed to the care and promotion of the most fragile.
Thanks, Sister, for your testimony of faith and hospitality!