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To Mother Maria
Herminia Rodriguez de Armas we owe the publication
of the Spiritual Exercises Notes.
In her introduction
she said that she has not tried to write the
life of the saint, and that's it. However, she offers us
something more than the life, for in the
introduction of each series of the Exercises,
presents us a panorama of the life of the saint that
helps us to understand better her response to God. The
priviledge of this book offers us, in its
authenticity, the spiritual experience of St.
Vicenta Maria Lopez y Vicuña, such that she herself
had lived, year after year, in the forge of the
Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius.
What
her daughters have desired much, we can do it today,
become visible in us the heart of the Saint, to feel
it vibrates in unison with the heart of God, whose
will of Love was the weave at the depth of her
thoughts, words and deeds.
With
the help of this book, we can enter in the development
of a spirituality, manifestation from a Charism
received from God, lived in dynamic fidelity.
Today, we can contemplate her encounters with God in
prayer, expression of a constant presence, her love
to Mary, the Mother of Jesus, her desires to live
out
the Eucharist, her surrender to the will of God in
obedience, her zeal, imbued with love for the
salvation and sanctification of the youth, her
delicate charity... ( cf. Spiritual Exercises Note,
pg XI )
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