About the book: This future saint, Concepción Cabrera de Armida (Conchita), prepares us, in these short meditations, to further our spiritual growth and union with Jesus.
There are 100 extraordinary meditations of this Holy Mystic which, because of its many editions (twenty five editions in Spanish, French, Italian and English), might be called a classic within the spirituality.
May all who read this book in the spirit of total self-surrender to her beloved Jesus receive the grace to be similarly transformed from ardour to holiness.
Before The Altar: A Hundred Visits To Jesus In The Blessed Sacrament (2000) is revised by Ronda de Sola Chervin with an Introduction by Msgr Juan Esquerda Bifet.
About the author: Blessed Concepción Cabrera de Armida, better known as Conchita, was born in San Luis Potosi on 8 December 1862 and died in Mexico, DF, on 3 March 1937.
As a writer, she often aimed to show her readers how to love the Catholic Church:
"To love the Church is not to criticize her, not to destroy her, not to try to change her essential structures, not to reduce her to humanism, horizontalism and to the simple service of a human liberation. To love the Church is to cooperate with the work of Redemption by the Cross and in this way obtain the grace of the Holy Spirit come to renew the face of this poor earth, conducting it to its consummation in the design of the Father's immense love."
Wife, mother, widow, lay apostle, Catholic mystic and writer, Conchita was beatified in Mexico City on 4 May 2019 as the first Mexican laywoman to receive this recognition.
No comments:
Post a Comment