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Missionary Daughter of the Most Pure Virgin Mary celebrated 50th Anniversary
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August 19, 2022Sr. Agueda Durazo, member of the Missionary Daughters of the Most Pure Virgin Mary (MDPVM), celebrated her 50th Jubilee Anniversary. She was honored with a Mass and reception that included mariachis for her 50 years of living a religious life. The celebration was held at St. Martin of Tours Parish in Kingsville, Texas on Aug. 14.Fr. Alfredo Villarreal, Pastor of St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church in Kingsville celebrated Mass at the parish.
Joining Sr. Agueda Durazo at the celebration were her fellow community sisters, two whom traveled from Mexico for the anniversary, Sr. Reyna, MDPVM, and Sr. Lupita, MDPVM. Members of the Missionary Sisters of Jesus, Mary and Joseph (MJMJ) and the Director of Consecrated Life & Women's Vocations for the Diocese of Corpus Christi, Sister Mary Claire Strasser from the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (SOLT) also joined the festivities.
Those pictured in group photo at the event from left to right: Sr. Mary Claire, SOLT; Sr. Ricarda Garza, MDPVM; Sr. Reyna, MDPVM; Sr. Lupita, MDPVM; Sr. Lucia Hinojosa, MDPVM; Sr. Agueda Durazo, MDPVM; Sr. Salome, MDPVM; Sr. Maria Delia Zapata Benavidez, MDPVM; Sr. Maxie Cruz, MDPVM; Sr. Consuelo Navarro, MJMJ; Sr. Gloria Rodriguez, MJMJ; and Sr. Raquel Gomez, MJMJ. Fr. Alfredo Villarreal is pictured in the front row.
About the Missionary Daughters of the Most Pure Virgin MaryThe Missionary Daughters of the Most Pure Virgin Mary (MDPVM) have a convent in Kingsville, Texas. Their charism is an intense interior life with a spirit of total sacrifice, purity of heart, detachment and refined charity like that of Jesus and Mary for the service of the Church in the brethren.
Their ministry includes Christian education of youth, pastoral activities directed toward religious education of the people of God, retreats and the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius and missions.
