ARGENTINA, Joaquín Colombo. We felt inexplicable joy in our hearts when Ariel Pssamani of the university Boys’ Group (and my group brother) publicly announced his decision to the Schoenstatt Family from Resistencia during the Mass on February 18th.
It is beautiful to see how God’s love, through the hands of Mary, transforms the hearts of those who give their Yes, and He uses them as apt instruments in His hands so that they can give testimony of his fruitful love with their life. When Ari sealed his Covenant in March of last year, he gave himself completely. He also placed his vocation in the hands of the Blessed Mother, and I believe that he expressed what he told the Blessed Mother in his Covenant Prayer very well: “I give you all that I have and what I am.” It is beautiful to see how Mary is always loyal to her Covenant with us, and She takes what we tell her seriously if we say it from the depth of our heart.
Rector of the missions
From that moment, She educated him day by day, and she used him as an instrument to reach other boys. As rector of the university missions Ita Pater, Ita Mater 2010 he taught all of us to be docile to the Providence of God, to serve others in a selfless way, and above all as he said on the last day of the missions, he taught us to be small and humble (he always said the position as rector was to big for him). Two months later, the Blessed Mother placed him in charge of a group of secondary students after he had participated in the retreat, Testimonies of Life, and today I can attest that he did an excellent job by bringing to life being an instrument of Mary to educate other hearts.
“Ariel, you have to be a priest, what are you waiting for?”
But all of this was nothing more than a preparation for what God had prepared for Ariel. The Blessed Mother called him to take one more step: “Ariel, you have to be a priest, what are you waiting for?” However this meant radically changing his life by giving his entire life to the service of others in following Jesus who invited him to live his vocation to be a priest. So on November 22, 2010, he gave his Yes to this call, to this gift, that God gave him before he was born when He thought it in his Divine Plan. But, there was a problem he needed the permission of the bishop and the rector of the seminary. The year was ending, and they had announced who would enter in the year 2011. Once again he gave himself to Divine Providence following the advice of Father Kentenich, experiencing the love of the Father when we place ourselves with complete trust in His hands. Five days later, he had an interview with the bishop and forty minutes later, he received the reply from the rector of La Encarnación, Inter-diocesan Seminary, that he was accepted for 2011.
Family joy
On Monday, February 28th, we shared the Mass of entry to the seminary with him and his family; it was beautiful to see how this joy secured us as a Family. The Covenant is what makes us a family, by making us brothers and sisters. This family is the inheritance that Father Kentenich left us, and this is the reason that we wanted to share this immense joy with you. So then will you take him and offer him to our Mother and Queen in her Shrines by thanking Her and our Father, because we are sure that our brother Ariel’s Yes will bring many blessings to the Schoenstatt Family from Resistencia. Therefore together we will continue to accompany him in prayer and with contributions to our Capital of Grace for all the boys and girls who decide to consecrate their lives to God.
