{"id":29219,"date":"2019-07-15T09:20:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T08:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hospitalarias.org\/en\/?p=29219"},"modified":"2019-07-15T09:20:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T08:20:52","slug":"challenges-province-of-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hospitalarias.org\/en\/challenges-province-of-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenges, Province of Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that in the Province of Spain the major challenges in the years to come to undergo discernment in order to arrive at the necessary decision?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hospitalarias.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/190703-Sor-Mari-Carmen-Martin.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-29220\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hospitalarias.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/190703-Sor-Mari-Carmen-Martin-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\"><\/a>My name is Mar\u00eda del Carmen Mart\u00edn and I have been a Sister Hospitaller since 1977.<\/strong> I was born in a charming and small Castilian town called Ag\u00e9s (Burgos, Spain). A simple place of good, hard-working people, situated along the Jacobean route to Santiago de Compostela, where many pilgrims passed with the typical greeting: <em>Buen camino!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I began my Hospitaller journey at the apostolic school in Pamplona. Later, I trained in Palencia and Ciempozuelos. Early on, I experienced first-hand the unification of the novitiates from Spain and other European countries, namely France and England. After taking my temporary vows, I was given the opportunity to study nursing, specialising in mental health. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In my pilgrimage through the sacred land of hospitality, I have performed many roles, all of which have directly or indirectly enabled me to participate in the core aspect of our mission: caring for the sick and the needy, the \u201cliving images of Jesus Christ.\u201d Last November, during the celebration of the I Provincial Chapter of the Province of Spain, I was selected to join the Provincial Government as Vicar and 1st Provincial Councillor to help promote Hospitaller duty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>In this new role, I have met with a good organisation and a very high commitment to work among the sisters and co-workers<\/strong>. Although the initial months have already passed, I find myself in a period of listening, observing, learning, allowing myself to be taught\u2026 <strong>The Province of Spain is complex, with a large and diverse volume of activity, not to mention the Delegation of Vietnam, which is dependent upon the Province of Spain and which I recently had the opportunity to visit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hospitalarias.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Desaf\u00edos-Provincia-de-Espa\u00f1a.EN_.pdf\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that in the Province of Spain the major challenges in the years to come to undergo discernment in order to arrive at the necessary decision?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[588],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cat-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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