Esmeralda Solís Gonzáles, young 20 year old Mexican woman, crowned last year as a beauty queen in her native town has now joined the Poor Clare Missionaries of the Blessed Sacrament Cuernavaca in Morelos State after leaving her career as a nutritionist. Born to a Catholic family on April 12, 1997 in Valle de Guadalupe, Jalisco State, the young postulant had met the Poor Clare Missionaries when she was 14, when her concern for a religious vocation “was awakening” through “vocational days, missions and camps.”
In March 2017, she gave her first yes to her vocation on the Feast of the Annunciation. She describes the call to vocation was always present in her life as a “little thorn” and it is difficult to understand what religious life is until you’re within it. She expresses her gratitude to God who allowed her having experiences such as being a beauty queen, and others, which allowed her to learn a lot for what was to come later and realized that you have to make room in your life to know what God had planned for you.
“In the process of discerning my vocation there was also fear and doubts, but the love that Our Lord was showing every day made me overcome any feeling of discouragement,” Esmeralda told CNA. Young people, she says, will always find difficulties in any vocation, “but if you go and take God’s hand, you’ll always be able to take the next step.”
Source: Catholic News Agency (CNA)
