"If people are in Tik Tok, why not be there with Jesus?"
This was the question that the 25-year-old Argentine nun Josefina Cattaneo asked herself when mandatory isolation due to the coronavirus prevented her from approaching her community to convey her message.
Since then, following the dynamics of this social network, it has succeeded with its adaptations of choreographies and songs with Christian messages, where it has accumulated thousands of
likes
and more than 85,000 followers.
Her publications, which combine the religious message with pop or reggaeton, confused her followers: “When I started, people asked me if it was real, if I was not acting and I told them: 'Look, it's not Halloween so I'm
Cattaneo was born in Verónica, a little boy from the province of Buenos Aires, and discovered his vocation at age 15 during a youth mission in Chaco, one of the poorest regions of Argentina.
"Although I was always a person of faith, this made me land and find Jesus in those people, who showed me that it is possible to live the kingdom, that it is possible to live the Gospel," explains the nun.
However, the decision to direct his life in this way did not cease to surprise his family and friends.
Josefina Cattaneo has the support of her superior and assures that she is not the only religious who spreads her faith through social networks: "In this challenge there are many more sisters, religious and priests."
And she adds: “Jesus lived in her time, why should I have to live a century ago”.
