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Discovering God’s wonders

Anna Vergani xmm
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24 February 2018

Last July I arrived in Worcester, Ma, this is when I began an experience of a new and different mission to discover.

Next November will mark 20 years that I started to walk with the Missionary Xaverian Sisters in the path of Mission, a Mission that always offers richness and new opportunities to get to know a little bit more about the wonders that God makes every day.

 My first 6 years as a Xaverian was a time of Formation in Parma and Rome (Italy). Then, in 2005, I went to our mission in Chad, where I was working in the catechesis for children and teens. Also, I was promoting the knowledge of the official language of the country through a service that the parish offered with different activities in the “library” and supporting the villages’ school by teaching French.

This time of grace in Chad ended in August 2010, I returned to Italy for a service in our headquarters in Parma. After almost 4 years, in February 2014, I moved just a thousand feet from our convent to a sheltering house where I lived 24/7 with women, mainly coming from middle Africa by boat.

They reached Italy after they had crossed the desert and stayed in Libya waiting for a travel occasion directed to a new place with better living conditions, but they were victims of human trafficking. I helped provide services and we did activities with them were we answered to their needs given the reality of which we were living in. The main goal was to share in the simplicity of daily life with the hope and certainty that God takes care of everybody who allows Him, and who allows Him to walk with them.

Even though I am almost 50 years old, while in Worcester, I’m attending school to learn English. This is the first step in being able to better communicate and serve the people that I’ll meet. While here I don’t know what kind of service I’ll do, but I do know it will be a new step in the mission’s path. In the meantime, I walk being aware, open, and attentive while discovering and testing the traces of God’s wonders that this reality has.