South America: Effata: open up!
On Friendly Heart, an account of the activities of the Sisters of the Company of Mary, missionaries among deaf-mute children
The Aramaic word “effatà,” used by Jesus to heal a deaf-mute, is also the life purpose of the missionaries who belong to the congregation of the Sisters of the Company of Mary, founded by Don Antonio Provolo in 1841.
Their general house is in Verona, but they are active in Romania and South America: Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia.
To open their minds and hearts to bring all souls, including those of the deaf and dumb, to God, following the spirituality of the founder characterized by charity and humility that gives everything to the little ones, in the sign of gratuitousness.
This is how these sisters operate in their institutes attended by children deaf from birth.
“Giving the word with the word itself,” with sound and song, allows them to work real miracles on children and adolescents who find in these schools the only possibilities in their lives to grow humanly and spiritually.
They are in fact minors without means, from humble families unable to give their children specialized care.
But the greatest help comes precisely from the distance support active at Cuore Amico, for which the religious sisters never cease to thank their benefactors.