Immaculate Cuesta Parras (Martos, 1968) is lawyer, writer and brother (in the broadest sense of the word). Deeply committed to his faith, he lives a stage of spiritual fullness that transfers him from the interior to his face, his gaze, his gestures, and as who carries in his depth a comforting summer, is delighted to share it at full hands with others and,, Today, with the readers of Lacontradejaén.
Red on the lovely first floor of Amate, with Jaén’s life happening at the foot of his slopes balconies, these digital pages today collect their memories, their convictions, their reflection.
“Marteña of a lifetime, daughter, granddaughter and great -grandson of Mars?”
“My father’s family is Martaña for a long time; In addition, my great -grandfather, by my father, was mayor in the Republic, but my mother is from Lopera; My grandfather was a civil guard, arrived in Martos, met my father and married and stayed there: that is, I am half Loperana, half Mars.
—Maradona, El Pelusa, said that he had grown up in a private neighborhood of Buenos Aires: deprived of water, light, telephone … What was yours, immaculate, where did you start to get used to life?
–The Vadillo (in Martos it is said ‘El Vaíllo’). Then, when I got married I went behind my house and then I did another behind my grandmother’s: that is, I have not moved from my neighborhood.
—It is rooted to the landscapes of his childhood, that is very crushed.
—Cerca de los Olivos, almost on the road of Jaén and other towns, and very close to the train, there was one step and we were running to see the mail pass, a very special site.
“Good memories, then.”
“Yes, yes, I had a very beautiful childhood, without thinking about anything, such as childhood.”
“Did at the time put on a black robe and imagined that she wore a toga, or the right later came to her life?”
“It was later, that vocation came when I was already in COU; As a child I liked science, physics, chemistry and all these things, but then I claimed the letters in the high school, from there I liked philologies or journalism, but for that we had to go to Madrid and I was Very attached to the land.
“I just’s the terroir?”
“Well, she had a boyfriend from a very young age and she didn’t want to go from Martos.” When they implemented right in Jaén, I did it.
“But why lawyer, if her love was another?” Was it a practical decision, maybe?
– I liked the courts very much, and I still like it; When I was exercising a while and then I decided that I had children, that I was missing all that and I needed time, when I came to my opposition I continued in justice, I liked that administration.
—Your professional work, then, he has gone for other paths other than those of the toga, right?
I was ten years old as a lawyer, but when I saw that in the afternoon I went out to the office of other colleagues and the moms were with their children, but mine were with my mother; Those spring afternoons, when it is already sun, everyone with the carts … I could consider leaving it, my husband was working, approved and gave me Martos.
“That’s luck, immaculate.”
“I thank God a lot, yes.”
“Well, as you look: there are those who want to fly, leave that homeland you talked about above.” It was not his case, of course.
“No, I also had small children, they were very young; And my husband was there, in the Civil Registry, and there it is. They gave us the same building, in different areas, yes.
“There is who says that working together is a double -edged sword.”
“I don’t see it!” From time to time we see you around the hall, but we are not together.
“Would your career repeat again?”
-Yeah.
“Isn’t there any subject, the desire to develop another job?”
-No; Other things can be developed without professionally dedicating yourself to them. What I liked is always writing, but for that you don’t have to dedicate yourself professional.
—The writing, literature, in the end it has ended up being another of its main activities. Did he resume it, or does it never set aside?
“Never, I always had things to do and write, what happens is that because of my circumstances, you have always derived towards religious issues: I am a person of faith, I have moved in areas of parish, brotherhoods, diverse pastoral groups and always and always My works were derived from it. And I enjoy both ways.
“Poeta, Prosista …?”
“Prose, but I have always written poetic prose;” When I write an article I always leave my hand, but it doesn’t matter, I always liked it, it has thrown me.
“He has come to publish, right?”
“I don’t know.” I don’t know if it’s cowardice or self -examination, I think I have been doing what I had to do at all times. I do not rule out that possibility, I always have things to publish.
—That religious scope that speaks is not a complement in its existence, or yes?
“It is essential.”
“What is faith, Mrs. Cuesta?”
“You can’t explain, the same as love.” There are fifty thousand phrases, words and sayings about love, and it will never be defined, you have to feel it: with faith it happens the same, it is as delicate as love.
“What does it mean?” The poetic vein is coming out, yes.
“That you have to take care of it: the same thing that you fall in love and fall out, you have to take care of faith, which has always been present in my life.” And with the future of the years, I have felt a conversion, a strong reunion with God. The pastoral issue is what I have to do right now.
—And the brotherhood theme, which you are one of those who wear a rod.
—It is the same, everything adds, pastoral agents try that, to touch hearts. But yes, I am on the Government Board of La Vera Cruz, I am a deputy of cults.
“It seems like the measure …
“Yes, and in the times that we are I think God is missing a lot.” He has always done it, but now …
“Why does he say?”
—These times are full of hope, but despite that hope that is there and is not seen many times, people are dead in life; Maybe my profession, I look a lot at people in the eyes and my face and see that they walk and are sad, sad people, a little zombie, who let themselves live, simply.
“And you blame it for these people have no faith?” Do you think that is the reason that they are sad?
—The spirituality lacks, and spirituality can have many names, we can speak in many languages.
– “The spiritual combat” of which Pope Francis speaks and that, according to many, is not precisely fashionable.
—Well, I think so, that people are now in a new paradigm in which they are realizing that, or not religious faith, spirituality must be cultivated. The problems are not out, nor the bad and the good: it is inside, and the cultivation of the spirit is essential to know how to find your center.
—Ada signed a sentence that makes the strip of years sang by Soleá the Serneta, nothing more and nothing less: “I was stone and lost my center / and threw me into the sea, / and after a long time / my center I came to find”. That is, it seems that this message is timeless. You, Immaculate, have you found that center?
“Yes, yes, and that gives me faith, that is that God is in my life: my heart burns.” I would like the world to burns.
“Now you remember Santa Teresa de Jesús.”
“Don’t tell me those things, for God, but I would like everyone to arrane the heart, but everyone has their rhythms, their times.”
“The heart burns …
“Of love, yes, and I still have my shadows, like everyone else: fears, dissatisfactions …
“And doubt?”
“Faith no faith, I never had them.” I have considered and I consider many things, I turn them around, although we must not think too much, we have an excessive cult of thought; I believe that silences and that kind of things are important, and so far we have not been aware of their importance.
“He just sentenced something very intense, very strong:” We have an excessive cult of thought. ”
—It is that thought, as you do not control it, the shadows that are in those thoughts in the end are made with you, they become strong; Thought is important, but the silences too.
“How do you learn that?”
– It is a process, you need to get involved in groups of silence and meditation, read … Everything is a process that has its times, there is no hurry, the case is to do it.
—Muñoz Molina states that silence has lost its prestige among people.
“Yes, of course, it is.”
“If we think, we get to silence.” Thanks, Immaculate.
