Cecilia Rivero Borrel, rscj; Province of Mexico

Cecilia Rivero Borrel, rscj; Province of Mexico - Nicaragua

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Silvia Canto rscj y Cecilia Rivero Borrel rscj

I am Cecilia Rivero Borrel rscj, originally from the city of Mexico. I entered the Society 15 years ago. At the moment I live in General Cepeda, a rural community in the north of the country and I have been working in the Popular Education programme for 6 years now. I co-ordinate the Ludotecas (games libraries) and I collaborate as an English and Arts teacher in the "Elementary School of the Desert".

I come from a family where music has played an essential role and as far back as I can remember, music has been my companion throughout all my life. I have discovered in music, a way to express what I am living deep down inside.

I cut my first CD "Espacio habitado" ("Inhabited Space") on the occasion of the Bi-Centenary of the Society, in order to share the spirituality that has accompanied me these years and as a complement to the Spiritual Journey for lay persons that was also published on the occasion of the bicentennial.

Two years later, I had the opportunity to cut a second CD, "Contrastes", in which I share what has given meaning to my life through my experiences, and to my vocation, which is a constant searching.

.....My song was born from the need to express myself,
as I perceive, think and feel life,
full of certainties,
fears, doubts, hopes........
.....My song expresses daily life
and makes it arise to the rhythm of the music that runs inside....

....My song, as one day I discovered,
has only one reason for being:
not to be mine any more,
when it comes back to me, shared
with the different hue
of those who gave me a gift of their time by listening to my song
and making it their own.

....It is then that my way of being
truly transcends, and is reborn,
from others for others and with others...."

Cecilia Rivero Borrel Glz rscj
Province of Mexico- Nicaragua

Listen to selected songs from the CDs "Espacio habitado" and "Contrastes" by visiting this month's Creative Space