{"id":101225,"date":"2023-06-29T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/final-vows-of-mabel-barrero-in-consecration-there-is-a-relationship-between-two-living-people-its-not-something-abstract-but-real-and-the-initiative-is-christs\/"},"modified":"2023-11-29T14:59:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T19:59:55","slug":"final-vows-of-mabel-barrero-in-consecration-there-is-a-relationship-between-two-living-people-its-not-something-abstract-but-real-and-the-initiative-is-christs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/final-vows-of-mabel-barrero-in-consecration-there-is-a-relationship-between-two-living-people-its-not-something-abstract-but-real-and-the-initiative-is-christs\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Vows of Mabel Barrero: \u201cIn consecration, there is a relationship between two living people; it\u2019s not something abstract, but real, and the initiative is Christ\u2019s\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Mabel Barerro finished her law studies, she attended an Emmaus retreat. She was already living her faith, but that is when her image of God began to change. \u201cHowever, only when I met the consecrated women of Regnum Christi could I feel a relationship with Jesus in a personal way,\u201d she tells us. Every time this young Columbian woman left a retreat, she started to have an identity crisis, \u201cbecause I felt, in a way that was strange for me, that I didn\u2019t just have to help out on three-day retreats, but that I had to dedicate my whole life to Jesus.\u201d With her discernment period over, Mabel made her final vows in Columbia on June 24, 2023. We interviewed her just before that.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Without a doubt, the Lord has done an intense work in me if I look at myself in the moment when I entered the Summer Discernment Course and now eight years later\u2026 The Lord has humanized me.<\/li>\n<li>I believe that everyone needs a place where they can be vulnerable, and my community is that safe place for me where I have been able to be myself.<\/li>\n<li>Number 12 of our Constitutions defines what the spousal relationship is very well: \u201cA Consecrated Woman lives from an experience of the personal, real, passionate and faithful love of Christ.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Mabel is Columbian. She was born in Bogot\u00e1 32 years ago. She studied law and was an attorney by profession, but after an Emmaus retreat, her life took a turn. Many questions arose in her head and her heart, but she tells us that with the help of the Consecrated Women of Regnum Christi, she came to know Jesus, \u201cand this was even more impactful for me, because the more I discovered, the more I felt myself called to follow it, and the more I got to know Regnum Christi and the consecrated women, the more I realized that the personal experience of Jesus\u2019 love is what gathers us and invites us to total self-giving.\u201d Mabel\u2019s story is the story of a woman who met Christ and sold everything to follow this treasure that she found after college.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36019\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36019\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Mabel-servidora-en-un-retiro-de-Effeta-en-Barcelona.webp\" class=\"wp-image-36019 size-full lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36019\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-36019 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Mabel-servidora-en-un-retiro-de-Effeta-en-Barcelona.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\"><\/noscript> Mabel serving at an Ephatha retreat in Barcelona<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>How do you feel in these days, about to make your final vows? Does Christ continue to surprise you on this homestretch?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since the moment when I found out the date, the nerves have intensified, but it\u2019s special because they are the nerves of knowing that we\u2019re so close to giving a \u201cyes\u201d forever, and I think anyone who is in a similar situation experiences it. These reactions tell me what this relationship is: I am giving myself forever to a living Christ. He is someone real who is everywhere, and of course he continues to surprise me: He shows me details that make me see clearly that he is an active part in all this, even in the organization of the Mass, the selection of the date, etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you get to know Christ and Regnum Christi?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I knew from a young age that God existed; we lived the faith in my home, and I also studied in a high school run by nuns and then in a secular school with a special devotion to Our Lady of Fatima. So I can say that I always had an idea of God, but it wasn\u2019t anything close for me.<\/p>\n<p>When I finished college, I began to attend Emmaus, and there, this idea of God began to change. However, only after I met the consecrated women of Regnum Christi did I feel a relationship with Jesus in a personal way. And this ultimately caught my attention. It was a novelty for me.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Almost every day I reflected on what it means to have profound happiness, which parties or winning a legal appeal didn\u2019t bring me, but a three-day retreat did.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How did the Lord tell you that he wanted you as a consecrated woman in Regnum Christi? Do you remember how your \u201cyes\u201d to the Lord happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was very happy working as an attorney. I liked what I was doing, but I began to feel that something was missing, and that something in me began to fill up every time I served in Emmaus. Then, every time a retreat ended, I started to have an identity crisis, because I felt, in a way that was strange for me, that I had to do more than just help on three-day retreats, I had to dedicate my life to Jesus. But I didn\u2019t like these invitations I was sensing because I didn\u2019t imagine myself in anything that wasn\u2019t practicing law. I tried to avoid the issue, but Jesus kept insisting.<\/p>\n<p>Then this started to become stronger and more frequent; almost every day I reflected on what it meant to have profound happiness, which a party or winning an appeal didn\u2019t bring me, but a three-day retreat did, and I think this question about happiness was the door God used to present to me a life choice that I wouldn\u2019t have even considered.<\/p>\n<p>The problem was that to me, it wasn\u2019t logical that the Lord would want me as a nun, since I didn\u2019t think I was the \u201ctype.\u201d I couldn\u2019t imagine myself in a convent at all. But then, when I met a consecrated woman, the way she spoke about Jesus attracted me strongly and helped me to live my relationship with him more naturally. So I set aside the topic of vocation, and I dedicated myself to get to know Jesus with her help. And this was even more impactful for me, because the more I found out, the more I felt myself called to follow, and the more I got to know Regnum Christi and the consecrated women, the more I realized that there are no \u201ctypes,\u201d that each one is different from the others, and that the personal experience of Jesus\u2019 love is what gathers us and invites us to total self-giving. And after a few years, I decided to take the step, to tell him \u201cyes.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36018\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36018\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Mabel-con-otras-colaboradoras-en-Chile.webp\" class=\"wp-image-36018 size-full lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"558\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36018\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-36018 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Mabel-con-otras-colaboradoras-en-Chile.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"558\"><\/noscript> Mabel with other missionaries in Chile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>How did your family react?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think I shared the news badly because I had never really told them about what I was experiencing. As the topic was so strange for me, I preferred not to speak to them about it. When I had decided to do a missionary year in order to discern more seriously, I told my siblings first; they were surprised but supportive. With their help, I told my parents. It understandably surprised them; maybe it was hardest for my dad because he didn\u2019t understand why I would give up my career for something like this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You studied law. How has your professional formation helped you in your vocation?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, I studied law, I graduated and I practiced in a law firm in Columbia for two years. As a consecrated woman, I have understood that studying law has been very important for me as a person (more than professionally). My career runs in my blood, and I couldn\u2019t identify or understand myself without this aspect of my life; the Lord certainly knew this and gave me the opportunity to study, enjoy and assimilate it.<\/p>\n<p>Now I am only a year and a half into my apostolic internship, and I believe I have been able to contribute a little in juridical matters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you view yourself from when you said \u201cyes\u201d to God to now, when you are going to make your final vows? What has changed in your life?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Without a doubt, the Lord has done an intense work in me if I look at myself in the moment when I entered the Summer Discernment Course in Monterrey and now, eight years later; yes, there is a giant change: The Lord has humanized me. I believe that I am now a more \u201creal\u201d person. The passage from Ezekiel about changing the heart of stone for a heart of flesh could define this process a little. The most moving thing is knowing that he will continue doing it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Changing the subject, what is the community of consecrated women you live with like? How does it help you confirm that God really wants you here?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My community has been very important in my vocational process; it has been said many times, but that\u2019s how I live it. I believe that everyone needs a place where they can be vulnerable, and my community is that safe place for me where I have been able to be myself, where I have been wrong and they have helped me, where I am constantly learning from the others, where I have been able to be very free and, being myself, I have been able to see how my consecrated personality has \u201cflourished.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36017\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36017\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Mabel-con-su-padre.webp\" class=\"wp-image-36017 size-full lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36017\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-36017 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Mabel-con-su-padre.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\"><\/noscript> Mabel with her father<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>What role has the Regnum Christi family\u2014Legionaries, Consecrated Women, Lay Consecrated Men, and lay members\u2014played in your vocational experience up until making your final vows?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The experience I had in Chile as a missionary is significant here, because in the section I was in (Dehisa) there was a lot of teamwork among lay consecrated men, Legionaries, lay members, and consecrated women. This was my first powerful experience of Regnum Christi; it was experiencing that it\u2019s about family, that there is no way to understand myself as a Consecrated Woman without the other Regnum Christi members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does it mean for a Consecrated Woman to have a spousal relationship with Jesus? What characterizes this relationship?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Number 12 of our Constitutions defines what the spousal relationship is very well: \u201cA Consecrated Woman lives from an experience of the personal, real, passionate and faithful love of Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is a relationship between two living people; it\u2019s not something abstract, but real, and also, it is given by Christ\u2019s initiative. (That is very impactful.) I am able to give myself forever only because I know there is Someone I can give myself to\u2014I will not be alone. Rather, I will have a spousal relationship with Christ, which is different from that of two spouses in marriage; it is a spousality that is understood not by logic, but the perspective of faith.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>There is no way to understand myself as a Consecrated Woman without the other Regnum Christi members.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What would you say to a young woman or man who is discerning whether God is calling them to consecrated life?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I was discerning whether or not to take the step, everything spoke to me of the vocation to the consecrated life, and it wore me out because I didn\u2019t want to accept it, and plus, I didn\u2019t like the typical phrases on the pamphlets, such as \u201cBe not afraid,\u201d \u201cCome and see,\u201d \u201cChrist doesn\u2019t take anything away, but he gives you everything,\u201d etc., etc. \u2026 All this rubbed me the wrong way, but now that I think about it, these things only occur to me because, even though they sound like clich\u00e9s, the surprising thing is that they\u2019re true! I would like to say something more elaborate, but I can only say, \u201cBe not afraid,\u201d \u201cCome and see,\u201d \u201cChrist doesn\u2019t take anything away, but he gives you everything\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Mabel-firmando-sus-votos-temporales-1.webp\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36016 lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36016\" src=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Mabel-firmando-sus-votos-temporales-1.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\"><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><strong>Word association: what comes to mind when I give you a word?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The past: <\/strong>mercy<\/li>\n<li><strong>The present:<\/strong> nerves<\/li>\n<li><strong>The future:<\/strong> trust<\/li>\n<li><strong>Final vows:<\/strong> totality<\/li>\n<li><strong>Communion:<\/strong> constant<\/li>\n<li><strong>The others:<\/strong> gift<\/li>\n<li><strong>Columbia:<\/strong> beloved homeland<\/li>\n<li><strong>Layperson:<\/strong> commitment<\/li>\n<li><strong>Legionary of Christ:<\/strong> priest<\/li>\n<li><strong>Consecrated Woman:<\/strong> sister<\/li>\n<li><strong>Consecrated Lay Man:<\/strong> testimony<\/li>\n<li><strong>Your family:<\/strong> love<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jesus:<\/strong> assurance<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ring:<\/strong> symbol<\/li>\n<li><strong>Studies before consecration:<\/strong> law<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mission:<\/strong> making Christ present<\/li>\n<li><strong>Church:<\/strong> Body of Christ<\/li>\n<li><strong>Suffering:<\/strong> constant presence of Christ<\/li>\n<li><strong>Life:<\/strong> eternity<\/li>\n<li><strong>Apostolate:<\/strong> sending out<\/li>\n<li><strong>A song:<\/strong> \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zzUKXC4zxko&amp;ab_channel=capoVEVO\">Si t\u00fa me lo pides (If You Ask Me)<\/a>\u201d by Pedro Cap\u00f3<\/li>\n<li><strong>A book:<\/strong> <em>The Count of Monte Cristo<\/em>, by Alexander Dumas<\/li>\n<li><strong>A movie:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmaffinity.com\/es\/film738161.html\">Worth<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Your favorite color:<\/strong> Blue<\/li>\n<li><strong>Your favorite number of the Statutes of Regnum Christi:<\/strong> 7 and 8<\/li>\n<li><strong>Your favorite number of the Constitutions of the Consecrated Women of Regnum Christi:<\/strong> 12<\/li>\n<li><strong>Your favorite saint:<\/strong> Augustine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Translated from the <a href=\"https:\/\/regnumchristi.es\/votos-definitivos-mabel-barrero-consagracion-relacion-dos-personas-vivas-real-iniciativa-cristo\/\">original Spanish publication<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Mabel Barerro finished her law studies, she attended an Emmaus retreat. 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