Over the weekend, July 15-16, a representative team from the Center for Accompaniment and Recovery of Integral Development A.C. (CARDI A.C.) visited the “Divine Redeemer” Parish, that the Augustinian Recollects attends in the city of Querétaro, Mexico. Jacky, Joshua, Guillermo, Tona and fray Refugio González, director of CARDI, made up the team.
The objective was to publicize the work that CARDI, A.C. has been developing with family of the patients hospitalized in hospitals close to the area: Hospital Siglo XXI, General Hospital of México and the Children’s Hospital, for 17 years in the Colonia Doctores, Mayor’s Office Cuauhtemoc in Mexico City.
CARDI was born as a response to a challenge that the Social Pastoral raised in terms of care material and spiritual of the least favored in the area of Hospitals. The Augustinian Recollects of the Vicariate of Mexico-Costa Rica adopted this task not as the work of one alone, but as response of all the recollect communities of the Mexican Republic to a palpable need in the society of that time and which continues to be alive at the present moment.
The “Divine Redeemer” Parish of Lomas de Casa Blanca in Querétaro could not stay margin of this socio-sanitary project and that is why in this year 2023, after 17 years of the foundation of CARDI, for the first time this visit was made in which the work was made known by a group of religious and lay people to maintain this work.
Parishioners were invited to be part of this great Augustinian Recollect project and, together, to be missionaries from “our concrete community”, together as the Augustinian Recollect Family.
The response given by all the faithful is not surprising, the interest shown in the work and the various congratulations received for the work done.
The CARDI team thanks everyone who helped with their input and prayers, so commendable task. In the same way, thanks the Recollect community of Saint Pius X for their hospitality and the welcome given, which made it easier for the mission to bear fruit. CARDI, for its part, hopes to continue supporting everyone who approaches the facilities that is “everyone’s home in the big city”.
