ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 5, 2023 / 07:00 am
Speaking from World Youth Day in Lisbon, the “City of Joy,” a Iesu Communio (Communion in Jesus) sister shared her vocation story with ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner.
“I met Jesus at a WYD in Cologne [in 2005] when I was 14 years old. It was through some words of Pope Benedict XVI, who for me is a father,” recounted the sister, who did not wish to give her name.
The sister, who is from the Emiliano-Romagnol area in northern Italy, related that during that World Youth Day, Benedict XVI spoke “of the Eucharist as a ‘kiss’ and of adoration as a prostration before Jesus, who is love.”
“I, who was looking for love like any 14-year-old girl, recognized that the only one who could hug me and ‘kiss’ my whole being to the depths was Jesus, who had given himself up for me until the end.”