The Catholic News Agency is reporting that a Mexican beauty queen has joined religious life. Esmeralda Solís Gonzáles, 20, was crowned last year as a beauty queen in her native town – and now she's joined the Poor Clare Missionaries of the Blessed Sacrament of Cuernavaca in Morelos State.
Gonzáles, 20, was born April 12, 1997 in Valle de Guadalupe, Jalisco State.
“You really don't know what religious life is until you're within it. So far I have been able to see from another perspective what the world is and what it offers you,” Esmeralda told CNA.
“I was very happy with everything I had, but it does not compare with the happiness that God now places in my heart.”
From the article:
The young postulant met the Poor Clare Missionaries some five years ago at 14, when her concern for a religious vocation “was awakening” through “vocational days, missions and camps.”
In addition, she pointed out how it was hardly a month after this process of discernment concluded when on March 2017 she gave her first yes to her vocation on the Feast of the Annunciation.
“God’s timing is perfect. During this time (of discernment) he allowed me to have some experiences such as being a beauty queen, and other experiences, which forever left their mark and which allowed me to learn a lot for what was to come later.”
“I have been in religious life very little time, but I truly have been very happy,” she said.
The article also said that to Esmerelda the call to a vocation was always there, like a “little thorn.” “I realized that I had to make room in my life to know what it was that God had planned for me,” she said. In the process of discerning my vocation there was also fear and doubts, but the love that Our Lord was showing every day made me overcome any feeling of discouragement.”
Esmeralda said she had discovered that God was calling her “to serve him in a radical way” and to change her “life to embrace the cross of Christ and live it more closely.”
Click here to read the whole CNA article.
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