Rita Castelli (Brasile)

Suor Rita Castelli Who is:

Sister Rita was a missionary in Brazil from 1982 to 2011, with an interval of two years on a mission in Mozambique.

Now living in the community Dueville (VI).

It is part of the Congregation of the Sisters Servants of Mary of Galeazzo, commonly called "Mantellate", one of the female branches of the Order of the Servants of Mary (OSM).

She was born in Caldogno 16 June 1946 and entered the Congregation in 1967 along with five other sisters of Caldogno. For years he worked in the textile laboratory of Caldogno, activated after the war archpriest Don Emilio Menegazzo, and of which the Sisters cared Mantellate the organization, operation and made education to young people.

She graduated registered nurse and has taken courses in theology.

Where it operates:

In Italy he worked until 1982 in various parish communities of the Veneto, Emilia Romagna and Tuscany, above all the young and the sick.

From 1982 to 2008 he carried out his mission in the state of Acre, in Brazil, except for a two-year mission in Mozambique (Africa).

From 2008 to 2011 he carried out his mission in San Salvador Bahia on the Atlantic coast.

Now she returned to Italy and lives in Dueville (VI).

Also among the poor:

  • in Acre in the forest among the Indians, peasants and seringeiros;
  • in Mozambique among blacks in the forest;
  • still at Acre with the Indians;
  • and then to S. Salvador Bahia among Afro-Brazilians, a people who still bears the marks of slavery, because there the negro is excluded and undervalued. "But it's a wonderful people, with a rich culture, creative, friendly, beautiful. The music oozes from the whole being, "says another. His activities took place between people in the poorest districts of the city and a parish of 80,000 inhabitants.

With simplicity and humility, has always been available to the Lord to live his commandment of love, which was sent by his superiors.

It now works in the parish Dueville.

The house of the sisters is open to all people who come knocking, to pray together in search of that force or friend who used to continue the hard road of life.

Contact:

Sister Rita CASTLES
Via Roma, 12
DUEVILLE (Vicenza)
Phone: 0444-360734
E-mail: castelli95@hotmail.com