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Visit to Casa Amparo Girl's Orphanage In Reynosa, Mexico Part 1 Sunday of Holy Innocents 29th of December, 2002 |
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Reader Stephen helps load up Father's truck with canned and packaged goods to take to the Orphanage in Mexico. |
A van fully loaded with food, toiletries, sewing supplies, baby items, and other goodies is ready to head for the Girl's Orphanage in Mexico. | |
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| Father packs up donated school supplies to take to the girls at Casa Amparo, which in Spanish means "house of aid, protection, shelter, refuge, and asylum." | A walled and secured entrance to the Orphanage and Women's Monastic Community is off a pot-holed back street in an impoverished neighborhood on the outskirts of Reynosa. | Father Antonio is warmly greeted by the very dedicated Mother Natividad, the Superior of the women's monastery which runs the girl's Orphanage in Reynosa. |
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| Our three vehicle caravan from St. George's as we arrived at Casa Amparo, filled with donated goods, parishioners, and friends. | Abbess Natividad gratefully looks over the goodies we brought for the girls at the orphanage. | Mike Price helping to unload Father Antonio's heavily loaded pickup truck. |
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| One of the Monastery's Sisters helping to unload sewing fabric and supplies for teaching young women how to sew. | Some of our young parishioners helping unload food and treats after we arrived at the orphanage. |
One of the nuns who was putting away the stacks of food, school supplies, toiletries, and goodies which the parishioners and friends of St. George's brought to Casa Amparo. |
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Note: The Orthodox Church never uses the word "Nunnery", and always uses the term "Monastery" to refer to a home for monastics of either sex. |
| Some of the women monastics busy at work, tucking away the goodies we have brought from St. George's and unloaded for the children who are in the Mother's loving care. | An intricate Spanish-style wood carving graces the entrance to the dining hall (trapeza) of the women's monastery. Translated from the carved Spanish inscription, it reads, "I am the Bread of Life; he who comes to me shall never hunger." |
