Prophecy of presence: UDJ in Spain at the service of the most vulnerable

Meet the UDJ Communities in Spain

EUNATE Community.

"Communiqué..." about our MISSION (2026)

We want, like Mary and with her, to create the conditions for our community to be a place of MISSION, both internally and externally, by means of :

• To remain open and committed to respond to the calls of the world and the Church.
• To promote the "encounter" as a source of life, with attitudes of listening and welcoming.
• To make the Mystery of the Incarnation visible, making Jesus, the Incarnate Word, present in all our lives.

...being always and in EVERYTHING: "Jesus alone" in prayer and in his Word, as a horizon of life, in the Church and as a universal fraternity.

...and in everything, as disciples of Jesus: that we may be his presence wherever we find ourselves, with availability and participation in the parish.

• Welcoming the "here and now" of events.

We want and seek: to be signs of HOPE:

• that illuminate reality.
• May they discover what is beautiful and positive.
• To promote appreciation and "encounter..."
• To care for and protect personal and community growth.

...Open to calls:

of the Congregation, of the Church and of the world

Community of San Martín in Vitoria-Gasteiz.

María Asunción BEITIA- Milagros GOICOECHEA- María Pilar HERRERO - Miriam NAVARRETE- Faustina ORTIZ DE URBINA- María Josefa SÁENZ DE SAN PEDRO María Nieves SALAVERRI- Carmen SALVIDEA

A community of older women, women of the Word who feed on Jesus and his message.

Women willing to share what we are and what we have. Sensitive to suffering, to pain... wanting to accompany and lend a hand to those who need it and come to us.

Aware of our fragility... capable of transmitting life in the present time in which we live...

to enjoy together... to strive to live fraternity.

In our house we want to favor the relationship with our neighbors, exchanging a word, favors... welcoming each other.

May ours be a house of open doors.

In our community there is life...!

and we are living our mission in the neighborhood of San Martín

Neighborhood formed by families coming from the towns of Alava. Simple, welcoming people, easy to relate to.

Neighborhood, which is getting older. There are many services: health center; hospital; pharmacies; parish; neighborhood centers...

Our parish has a group of people who keep the faith alive in the neighborhood. Everyone who attends enjoys participating and enjoys the meeting.

Many older people are involved in citizen participation proposals that promote active and meaningful aging.

The migrant population is a hope for the neighborhood and they are mainly engaged in caregiving.

There are many elderly people living alone and this is a challenge for accompaniment and care. How to be a simple, welcoming, close presence... a listening presence in their midst.

Community of Bilbao.

OUR FACE:

-A diverse community,

with a life dedicated to the Lord,

that has enriched us

and that encourages us to continue today

being the presence of Incarnation and surrender to Jesus,

in favor of his Kingdom until the end of our days.

A community of women who are vulnerable, fragile, limited, but with the certainty that the Lord continues to accompany us and encourages us to grow together in belonging and co-responsibility.

-A community that strives to revitalize the life of faith through prayer of praise, contemplation, adoration, thanksgiving....

-A community of women with a simple lifestyle, close, open, welcoming to neighbors, to the neighborhood, to parish unity, to reality and to collaboration with others.

OUR NEIGHBORHOOD:

-Our neighborhood of San Ignacio is an awakened neighborhood, which helps us to be attentive to the needs of the people who live in it, who at the same time help us and enrich us as we relate to them.

Composed of:

• Older people who have struggled throughout their lives and are happy to have achieved a fulfilled life.
• Migrants, mostly Latinos and also from other countries in search of well-being for their families, although integration is not always easy.
• Young families with children, concerned about their children's future.

-Our Pastoral Unit

It is a living, participatory community, which gathers, welcomes and is a place of encounter, celebration and formation.

The gift we are called

To keep in mind in our lives

It is HOPE...

Called to go out of ourselves and encounter the diverse and different, to live the Incarnation as a mystery of God who comes out to meet us and urges us to walk with others in solidarity networks, inviting us to have a broad and positive view of what happens in our environment, to provide spaces of welcome and encounter, to live interdependence.

Our commitment in the Parish Unit and OTR@S

Consists of participation and collaboration in:

• Caritas: Attention and reception of migrants, Spanish language classes

Upward mobility, Pastoral health care, Ecclesiastical community

• The ONCE, National Organization for the Blind
• Dining room for people with other abilities,
• Nursing homes

Mertxe Unceta-barrenechea, Julia Rodríguez, Araceli Pinedo, Arantza Arregui, Ana Iribarren, Emilia Álvarez, Mariví Requena

We have an average age of 85 years

Community of Santa Maria.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY:

• The community is made up of four sisters:

Ana Martínez,

Mª Rosario Urdiain,

Mª Celina Cabero and

Mª Soledad Rodríguez.

MISSION:

• We are a Community of Presence, in the Rochapea neighborhood of Pamplona - Navarra.

We try to be a close, friendly Presence,

solidarity, taking an interest in the people in the neighborhood

and the parish, celebrating our faith with the

Christian community, participating, contributing and

praying for the needs of our environment

and of our world. And we are open to the calls of the Church and the world today.

• We accompany our sisters of the elderly community of Our Lady of Peace, with unconditional support and in a special way when they are hospitalized.

Roquetas de Mar-Cortijos de Martín Community, Almería.

Our community is located in the south of Spain, in the town of Roquetas de Mar-Cortijos de Martín, Almería.

We are a community that is ready to "listen to the reality of immigration", to be present in it. To get to know the world of migration from the inside, to allow ourselves to be touched and to discover the life that this reality offers us.

Women with a community face under construction that is unveiled, every day, from listening to THE WORD: "God accompanies his people".

In this town where we are inserted we want to be women who look at life from faith, hope, women who offer what they are and what they have, entering into the path of being life with others and among others.

We share who we are by participating, as volunteers, in different associations that develop projects of welcome and formation for migrants. In these projects we want to be witnesses and witnesses of good news: bearers of hope, comfort and the tenderness of God for all.

The Encounter community

I HAVE FOR YOU A PROJECT OF FUTURE AND HOPE".

[Jr.19,11]

The community of the meeting is made up of three sisters:

Mª Nieves Herrero, Josefina Sáez de Vicuña and Inés Zazpe

Our community is located in a residence for the elderly in the city of Vitoria.

From our CHARISM OF INCARNATION, we feel sent to be a community of PRESENCE here in a residence, coeducational and lay.

Our PRESENCE takes shape day by day; in an accompaniment of our environment, with a positive outlook towards the people with whom we relate, maintaining a patient listening and attention to detail.

We want to be a community open to daily surprises and unspoken needs: physical, spiritual, psychological.

We want to be sowers of encouragement and hope among ourselves, with the sisters of other communities, with the other residents, professionals, companions and family members.

La Pascana Community.

We are the Pascana community, made up of five sisters:

Maria Victoria Marquinez, Encarnita Lana, Marisol Villafañe, Rosario Gonzalez and Salu Sanchez

The community is located in a neighborhood of Madrid, Valdezarza; between an area of well-to-do families and a larger part with families of simple and popular style. At the moment there is an important number of immigrant families, living in very precarious situations.

Our mission is to be a presence mainly from the parish; one person participates in the group of ascending life; another in caritas; although in the activities that are promoted in the parish, we all participate.

Two of us participated with the Bridge of Hope Association, formed by 12 religious congregations, among them the Ursulines of Jesus and with the collaboration of a good group of lay people, for orientation and support to immigrants arriving in Madrid.

A sister is serving the R.M. of Spain as secretary.

Another in healing therapy to people in need of help.

Community of "Betania" - Lagasca 37. Madrid.

We are a community of 6 sisters called by Jesus to live fraternity, sharing our faith and our mission on a daily basis.

We are in a central neighborhood of Madrid where social groups of high economic level and middle class mix with immigrants who work in the service of wealthy families. Attentive to this diversity, we try to create links that put us in contact with reality. Through our simple relationships, whether as neighbors, on the street, in the market, or in health centers, we want to make the humanity of Jesus present, recognizing the value of each person in his or her concrete situation. These encounters also allow us to discover the potential for service and commitment that is lived in the neighborhood without making noise.

Our parish is the Basilica of the Conception of Our Lady. We participate in daily Eucharist, formation and celebrations, spaces of Church in which we share our faith and our identity. One of our sisters is part of the Care for the Sick group. Each meeting is a time of formation, sharing experiences and reporting on the situation of those who request a visit.

In community, we respond to the mission entrusted to us: welcoming. We place our house at the disposal of the sisters and the different groups of the congregation for formation meetings and other works. We feel called to be a reflection of the house of Bethany where Jesus was received with his disciples and where they enjoyed an atmosphere of family, friendship, rest and celebration. Being available, opening our door and welcoming those who arrive is the way to respond, here and now, to the great love of God manifested in his Incarnation.

Along with this common mission, other fields of mission are opening up before us. One of our sisters, having lived and worked in a very simple neighborhood of Madrid, has faithfully maintained her relationship with a group of women motivated by sewing and other manual work. Prayer is present in each weekly meeting and for all of them to see each other again is to be able to participate in a space of conviviality, friendly conversation and festive celebration.

Responding to an urgent social need, 12 congregations of women religious sought ways to respond to the challenge of immigration in Spain and specifically in Madrid. They decided to form an Association which they called Bridges of Hope, a name that marks the objective of the work. We, as Ursulines, have collaborated since its foundation in various services. Currently, another of our sisters dedicates her time to welcoming immigrants who arrive for the first time, orienting them, offering them guidelines that allow them to find their place in our country. She also informs them of all the possibilities of training and support that they can find in the association.

Our life given to God in missionary service becomes adoration of the Father.

We look at the world through the eyes of Jesus, becoming more deeply aware of the contradictions, inequalities and injustices that shake our troubled world. Community prayer is for us a time of communion with the sorrows and joys of our brothers and sisters whom we make present: our environment, the Church and the world.

Since God became man,

every human face is a place of encounter with Him.