Today we would like to introduce you to Egoitz Zabala, a lay hospitaler and pastoralist at Aita Menni Hospital in Mondragón.
📌How long have you been a member of the Sisters Hospitallers? I have been with the Sisters Hospitallers for 14 years.
📌Why did you decide to join the Sisters Hospitallers? Because the Sisters Hospitallers enables me to live my vocation to the full in the service of the Church. I see it as a gift to be able to live “in” hospitality. Hospitality attracts, it unites lives, lives that I have had the good fortune to share since I arrived at the Institution.
📌What is your purpose, your mission in helping the Sisters Hospitallers? Sharing life in this community, especially with our patients, meeting the God of Life in each one of them, drives me to continue walking with the forgotten, the discarded of our society. To fight against the stigma of mental illness, to recognise that dignity that exclusion and illness hide, to transform the reality of their lives and to remind myself and others that they are the chosen ones, the centre of the message of Jesus of Nazareth.
Thank you Egoitz for your hospitable witness!
👉We are a #HospitallerFamily: a vast and diverse community of professionals, Sisters, volunteers and benefactors, united by the value of hospitality throughout the world 🌍.
