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08 July 2008

Sr Eusebia Palomino and serenity...


This morning as I moved towards the Chapel for Mass I remembered that yesterday was the feastday of Sr Maria Romero, a Salesian Sister. Anyway, my mind drifted and I joyfully spent my meditation on another Salesian Sister on the road to Canonisation: Sr Palomino. Well I read her life and am truly fascinated by it.

She came from a very poor family, so poor that she had to go begging for food and basic necessities of life with her father when she was just a small kid. But she learnt very many things during those 'expeditions'. She never got to go to a school for studies and spent her whole life in the houses of rich people doing menial jobs. She later got to go to the Salesian Sisters convent and joined there as a maid. She slowly realised her vocation to become a Sister and with great difficulty became one. However, she continued to work in the kitchen, cooking, cleaning, washing and gardening. What amazed me is that even there she continued to 'touch people's lives'. Children, attending the school, would rush to the convent to meet 'their kitchen-Sister'.


Even when the end came (she was very young) she refused to leave her homeland for fear of llife due to insurgency and political unrest. She was killed! Yet all her life one cannot but avoid noticing the serenity and depth of life. Surely she had her roots deep inside somewhere strong and secure. Nothing that happened around her could lead her to desperation and fatigue!


Lord, grant me that strength...

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