Memories of Jazmina
Jennifer Martínez (Ecuador): Jazmina loved Jesus a lot, and she made me love Him too
Laura Mero Arteaga, Ecuador: She just looked at me and smiled, but that gaze had a big impact on me, because it was so filled with affection and expressed such a great love. It was as if she had known me for years. It was a motherly gaze.
Erika Alejandra Tuárez Cedeno (Playa Prieta, Ecuador): She came to me and said: “Look at this, it’s beautiful!” And she showed me the hymn for vespers that evening: On this evening, Christ of Calvary...
What scares us young people most is what God could ask of us.
Guadalupe Cedeno, Ecuador: She always said that the one who safeguarded her vocation was the Virgin Mary.
Carolina Aveiga, Chone, Ecuador: Laughing, she remembered that she had offered them to the Lord for that soul.
Guadalupe Cedeño, Ecuador: She used to say, “To me, when you’re not doing well, when you are upset, it’s because you’re not giving God something.
Naomi Cabrera, Ecuador: She said that she belonged to the Lord, and He could ask anything of her.
Naomi Cabrera, Ecuador: Her generosity in carrying out each activity is what I remember most about Jazmina.
Chelita Velasquez, Ecuador: Her vocation helped me to see how I truly was and to realize that I wasn’t doing things correctly. Thanks to her I realized that I was denying the Lord many things. He wanted me to be free of my attachments.
Jazmina and Mayra helped me to enter the Home of the Mother.
Sr. Kelly Maria Pezo, USA: The graces she received that Holy Week were fundamental. They were the last push towards the fulfillment of God’s will in her.
I will never forget her advice! She was very brave and generous. I know that from Heaven she is helping me.
Elaine, Ecuador:
She would say, “Let someone help you, let yourself be guided. Give your heart to the Lord.”
Chelita Velásquez, Ecuador:
"They were the first girls I met when I first came to the Home. I remember the first time I saw them, it seemed as if we had known each other forever. "
Gemita Dayana Vergara Espinoza, Ecuador:
She would always say this phrase: “God chose me and I give Him thanks for it because I am nothing. Without Him I’m just nothing. He knows why He permits these things.”
Anita, Ecuador:
“Anita, what’s necessary to find true happiness isn’t a comfortable life, but a heart that’s in love.”
Sr. Kelly Pezo, United States:
Whenever we remembered the children from El Puyo, she would always ask us when we were going back.
Hna. Ruth Ibañez, Spain:
She was one of those people that, when they begin to lead a prayer life, right away they see with great clarity what it is that the Lord wants of them.
Denisse Muñoz Alcivar, Ecuador:
With each girl that came to the Home, she was always very caring and she made us feel welcome in the group.
Mariana Chica, Ecuador:
She was a very joyful and nice girl; she smiled a lot.
Carolina Aveiga, Ecuador:
She saw with such clarity that everything that we do has to be done to give "glory to God" and every time I lost sight of that, it was she that reminded me.
Cristina Pinargote, Ecuador:
I thought to myself, it must be so hard to go through what she is going through, but she lives it with an amazing joy.
Sr. Reme Rodríguez, SHM:
Sr. Reme, please pray a lot for me so that I can stop being so vain and can detach myself from the things that keep me far from GOD.
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Aura Cristina:
She told me that she could never deny that the Lord had called her to be a Servant Sister of the Home of the Mother
Kasandra Moreno Moreira, Ecuador:
I saw her ready to fight with all her strength in order to surrender herself to Him.
Juan Gregorio Toala, Ecuador:
I did not know Jazmina for very long, but in the brief time that I did know her, she made me realize how important it is to love Jesus.
Estrella, Ecuador: "She always spoke very firmly and I would often say that she was a rebel, but her answer was always: I’m not a rebel, I just speak clearly”.
