Setúbal (Portugal). On 12 October 2024, in the Cathedral of Setúbal, Portugal, Sister Diana Arrobas, Daughter of Mary Help of Christians of O. L. of Fatima Province (POR), pronounced her “Yes forever” to the consecrated Salesian vocation, professing definitively the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
“In response to your love… I give myself entirely to you” is the motto that accompanied this important moment of the young FMA’s journey.
The Eucharistic Celebration, presided by Fr. Tarcízio Morais, Provincial of the Salesians of Don Bosco of Saint Anthony Province (POR), was held in a climate of joy and deep communion, with the presence of Sister Maria del Rosário García Ribas, Vicar General of the FMA Institute; of the Provincial, Sister Deolinda Teixeira; of FMA, SDB, young people, and family members who, in a spirit of family, gathered to thank the Lord for the gift of the vocation of Sister Diana and to pray for the gift of her fidelity.
In the hands of the Vicar General, delegate of the Mother General, Sister Diana surrendered herself to the Lord forever, assuming the mission that Jesus entrusted to her: living abandoned to Him with all of herself, in joyful service to the young, according to the spirit of the Founders, St. John Bosco and Saint Mary Domenica Mazzarello.
The celebration, embellished by the choir made up of young people from the Salesian Youth Movement and friends, was followed by a fraternal time of celebration at St. Anna House of the FMA, where there was no lack of the joy that characterizes the Salesian Family.
In her final words of gratitude, Sister Diana expressed grateful memory for the many gifts received from the Lord as a source of immense joy, which invites everyone to be witnesses of Love, an instrument that gives color to God’s dream for each person. This is the call that, in the testimony of the perpetual neo-professed, the Lord Jesus leaves: live for love, abandoned to Love, in the certainty that everything that comes from God already bears the sign of Eternity.
Sor Diana: Soy una Hermana anciana de la Provincia CMA que estoy feliz con su entrega definitiva al Señor en el Instituto. Solo le deseo que sea muy fiel hasta la muerte y que solo sea Dios su único tesoro para entregarlo a los jóvenes y niños que encuentre en su camino.
Mi unisco alla gioia. L’ augurio:poterla vivere ogni giorno per tantissimo tempo.