Sister María Asunción - COVIS/Corona - Who Cares! Would Give Anything for Another Chance to Hear Her Again!

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• Jan 28, 2021

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Ohh thank you so much for posting this beautiful video of Sister Maria Asunción. She sang at the pilgrim mass after my first camino in 2012. An exquisite moment that filled my heart.

 

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Thank you.

Perhaps my most vivid memory of a Pilgrim mass at the Cathedral is “Ubi Caritas” cutting through the chatter and repeated hundreds of cell phone images straight to my heart. Chills and tears. Where indeed is love?

Paul

 

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It was never the same when she no longer was there.

 

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Beautiful!

 

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Calming.....thank you!

 

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scruffy1 said:

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She was better live, to be honest.

Like all those officiating at a mass where there are many strangers (Montserrat is another great example) Sister MA was great at controlling the audience by hand signal.

 

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• Jan 29, 2021

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Was she still there in 2016?

I remember there was a beautiful sister teaching us the parts of the mass before it began and then she sang all of the parts of the mass (and communicated with hand signals!). She was such a star! It was almost a little heart breaking watching the 8 or so priests all walk off the altar at the end of mass while she cleaned up.

She really was the most amazing part of SDC mass.

 

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Exquisite

 

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scruffy1 said:

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Such a pure voice !! Thanks ! I didn’t know her

 

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scruffy1 said:

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I heard her at the end of my first camino in 2008 and again in 2014. I think she has the most beautiful voice on earth. Thanks for sharing the video.

 

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Thank you so much. My husband, who's an atheist, decided to attend the Pilgrims Mass at the Cathedral.

Every time he tells people about his Camino, he never fails to mention how moving the beautiful singing, performed by the nun, was at the Mass, especially during the swinging of the botafeumeira.

 

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Ah makes me cry......such a mix of so many emotions

 

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GailGwyn said:

Thank you so much. My husband, who's an atheist, decided to attend the Pilgrims Mass at the Cathedral.

Every time he tells people about his Camino, he never fails to mention how moving the beautiful singing, performed by the nun, was at the Mass, especially during the swinging of the botafeumeira.

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I’m an aetheist too. Doesn’t stop you appreciating a truly divine voice

 

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She has a beautiful voice, and the boss of the cathedral for sure. When I first saw her starting the service i immediately thought of my 8th grade math teacher, Miss Joseph. She was tiny I stature but a giant. She cared about every student. I went to a very tough New York City public school during the 60’s. Fights every day, bars on al the windows, people getting shook down for money, drugs, you name it. But nobody and I mean nobody didn’t respect Miss Joseph. She would stare down guys in gangs and break up fights with boys twice her size. She scared the pants off me. But I loved her and respected her and she made sure EVERY one of her “boys” learned math. As she would yell to us. You have no choice you will learn algebra whether you like it or not. I will not allow any of my boys to fail. And we didn’t. I have a feeling the sister is Miss Joseph’s spiritual twin.

 

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TaraWalks said:

Was she still there in 2016?

I remember there was a beautiful sister teaching us the parts of the mass before it began and then she sang all of the parts of the mass (and communicated with hand signals!). She was such a star! It was almost a little heart breaking watching the 8 or so priests all walk off the altar at the end of mass while she cleaned up.

She really was the most amazing part of SDC mass.

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She was still there in May of 2017.

 

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scruffy1 said:

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Wonderful voice.

 

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Thank YOU!

 

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Oh thank you for this post,

A much needed video for a quite hectic morning,.

Life is so good.

 

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scruffy1 said:

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Thank you, thank you, thank you.

 

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Thanks. I needed that.

 

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That was beautiful. For one little moment I was there. Thank you for posting this.

 

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I was very disappointed that she did not sing at the solemn Puerta Santa mass on Dec 31st.

 

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• Jan 30, 2021

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scruffy1 said:

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Sister certainly knew how to control and quite the congregation before Mass. Her singing was exquisite and heavenly, resonating throughout the Cathedral. I am blessed to my memories of her singing

 

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• Jan 30, 2021

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Sister Marie Asunción had a Saintly voice. Heard her in 09, ‘10 ‘12 ‘14
I had a nice conversation with her when I requested to do a Reading during the Mass. She loved that I volunteered eventhough my Spanish was Not perfect.
Missed her in 2019.

 

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She or another nun sang at the early May 2002 Pilgrim Mass I attended. I had just finished whispering aloud a bundle of prayers which had been given to me to read once I had arrived in Santiago and was awash with tears. So no matter my "ex"Catholic insistence; this voice put me over the top to full on Kleenex mode.

(*Not one single prayer was to win the lottery or get a better job. Every single prayer was to be of strength for others, or, to express with compassion their care and love for others and the world.).

 

John A Richard

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A saintly voice!