All ready, redouble your efforts, it will soon be Christmas Eve and the day after Christmas. They are not things that we wrap, they are gestures of love and generosity; We are not just people who prepare gifts, we are messengers of hope and charity. Let’s rush soon, with colorful paper the illusion to cover, that someone special this Christmas Eve, a longed-for present will receive. Go on and not stop, the hours are counting, there are many sick and needy who await a Christmas present. May joy unite us all in the spirituality of Osane, that if it is about bringing joy, with this work we all win.
The Organization of Services and Help for Christmas for the Sick, Osane, finalizes the details of what will be Christmas for the Sick number 56, a work that for more than half a century has collected the mysticism and spirituality of that which gave rise to it, the priest Jenaro Cervera Ceballos, and who brings joy and hope to those who will spend Christmas Eve and Christmas in a hospital, nursing home or nursing home through a personalized gift that Santa Claus will deliver in his own hand.
Last Thursday the 1st, the Santa Claus Workshop opened its doors in a space of the convent of the Misioneras Guadalupanas del Espíritu Santo, very close to the roundabout to Miguel Hidalgo, at the intersection of Itzaes and Colón avenues.
The delivery of gifts will begin early tomorrow, said Javier Bolio Laviada, president of Osane, a group that adopted this project in 1985 and has sustained it ever since to preserve the legacy of its initiator.
As part of the Christmas of the Sick, a mass will be celebrated this Saturday at 8 am in the chapel of the convent of the Madres Guadalupanas. It will be presided over by the Archbishop of Yucatan, Monsignor Gustavo Rodríguez Vega, who will bless all the gifts, as well as the human and logistical team of the work.
Among other things, 1,500 pieces of clothing, 600 blankets, 300 towels, fifty boxes of cookies and 90 packages of diapers will be delivered, as well as toys, walkers and wheelchairs for adults.
The caravan with Santa Claus, supported by seven cargo vehicles and accompanied by a choir and guitar, as well as several volunteers in logistics, will leave at 9:30 am to visit six shelters and the Maternal and Child Hospital. The tour would conclude before 4.
Bolio Laviada highlights that Christmas for the Sick has been maintained despite the adversities of the times, especially in the last two years when the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted its scope, since it became necessary to rethink the direction of support : It no longer focuses so much on hospitals —for strictly sanitary reasons— as on spaces where many people spend Christmas without the company of their relatives.
“Christmas for the Sick in Osane is a profoundly human, charitable and spiritual work. Those who participate in it, from those who donate in kind or in cash to those who give their time and effort in Santa Claus’s Workshop, find in it a meaning to Christmas, a time to give and lavish love on others. It is worth embracing this work that I am sure will prevail for many more years.”— Emanuel Rincón Becerra