Mamitas Abadesas, a book that recognizes the work and religiosity of women from Mojeñas
02/03/2025
San Ignacio de Mojos, February 2, 2025 .- “The leadership of Amazonian women, mamitas abadesas of San Ignacio de Mojos”, is the recent title of Father Bernardo Mercado, SJ., Current Provincial of the Society of Jesus in Bolivia, a work that seeks to revalue the service and spirituality Of the women of Mojeñas that feed the living culture in the Llanos de Mojos.
“When we gave this text to them we said: Mamitas pray, but not only with their lips, but with their concrete actions; They pray when they clean the temple, when they visit the sick, when they prepare the chicha and prepare a plate of food, ”said María Eugenia Carrizo, missionary and advisor of the Rural Youth Pastoral of San Ignacio de Mojos, representing the author of the text.
The presentation act was developed on February 1 in a significant place for abbess: the missionary temple that, like the indigenal council, survives thanks to its work and fundamentally its faith. However, the text was delivered in advance to the protagonists in a symbolic and very significant tribute.
Carmen Charimo Yuco, on behalf of the Abadesas mamitas, expressed some emotional words in Mojeño Ignaciano to thank for the text that adds to the other books that immortalize the culture of their people.
Carrizo explained that the book tries to explain and expose the service, prayer and delivery of abbess mamites, but not only as a simple religious act, but also as fundamental leader actions in the indigenal council.
“Bernado titled it: ‘Leadership of Amazonian women’ because abbess mamites seem there, simply with chicha or food, but they see and listen to everything, and when the time comes to issue their opinion they are also able to transmit his ideas to the structure of the council; They are women of prayer, but also women of decision -making within the life of the Cabildo, ”he said.
A second part of the book recognizes and exposes the indigenous leadership of the Indigenal Cabildo of San Ignacio de Mojos, a town that recognizes their values and struggles in pursuit of their claims and that does not renounce them despite the time already a modernity that, often, undermines The authentic and replaces it with a superficial change.
“Abbess mamites are the heart that the indigenal council beating. That this book opens the sensitivity to know the spirituality of them, but that it is also an entrance door to the rich social and political history that is still lived in the people of San Ignacio de Mojos, where the corregidores tatas have a succession of 335 years, ”concluded Carrizo.
