I respond to the invitation to write my experience with you, Ramón Zubieta. And when I went to insert in the writing some quote about you, I met you. Yes, of course I have known you for more than 50 years. Better said, now I see that I only had...

As a Congregation, we are celebrating the centenary of the life of dedication of Ramon Zubieta, father and true prophet among his people. We cannot hide the treasure that he is, we have to preach it to the four winds, also because, today as yesterday, our world lacks models of...

To write a testimony or make a commentary on the Centenary of our Father Founder, in a time of pandemic, seemed to me a little less than daring, a “speaking for not keeping silent”. Thinking about it more, I have chosen to share what, in a second reading of his...

“Msgr. Zubieta’s deep affection is expressed through the memory of people who are far away or from whom he must separate, sometimes forever, as the missionary option demanded at that time.  He expresses deep sorrow in the face of death, or when he sees others suffer.  Then he speaks of...

“When I commended my soul to God and I was saying goodbye to the world, I saw myself sitting on the canoe, without being able to understand yet how could I do it.” “In my distress I called out: LORD! I cried out to my God. From his temple he...

“Please see if missionary people do not have reasons to complain and protest against so much inequity, against that human flesh trade and the women and children trafficking.” “Hear this, you who trample upon the needy and destroy the poor of the land” (Amos 8, 4) Lord of justiceFriend of...

“Native women are Smart and when they are educated in their childhood acquire the habits of morality surprisingly” “He took the child by the hand and said to her, “Talitha kum,” which means, “Little girl, I say to you, arise!” (Mark 5, 41) I praise you Lord of tendernessFor your...

We praise You, dear Fatherbecause you love your people,and clothe the humble in gloryallowing them to collaborate in your Kingdom.WE THANK YOU, LORD…We thank You, Lord,for Msgr. Zubieta, the missionary,chosen according to your heartin whom you put the Spiritto be a light in the Amazon,and voice crying out for your...

“Father Zubieta is on his knees and bends himself with the docility of a lamb in front of the slaughterman and the renegade minister Katipunam, recovered from the sudden fear with the example of the victim starts his task and doubles his courage.” “Dogs surround me; a pack of evildoers...

When I entered the Congregation in October 1949, I was fortunate to meet people who had known our founders and were striving to share their experiences with the new vocations of the Congregation.   A crucial sister in this information was M. Teresa Lazaro, who, with great affection for the...

Ramón Zubieta for me, is that figure, that man who marked the history of his time with his being and doing.    Being, because he was a man marked by presence, attentive, affectionate, a man with a big heart who bore everything with love and patience, dedicated.    Being, because...

This rather bizarre phenomenon in my Religious life as a Missionary Dominican Sister of the Rosary started somehow with candid infatuations seasoned with uncertainties of what the future could offer a youth who had just stepped into the portals of a debutante age. Not a bit of inkling so to...