Recently, on May 13, 2015 an article was published in the Mexican Catholic weekly paper “Desde la Fe” about our own Visitandine Venerable Madre Angelica Alvarez Icaza and her spiritual director, the late Archbishop of Mexico City, Mon. Luis Maria Martinez Rodriguez, promoting them as advocates to change the reality of Mexico’s situations.
This blogger translated the article:
“The postulator of the cause for canonization of these two servants of God traveled to Mexico to develop a series of activities.
This year marks the centenary of the first meeting in the Lord of the servants of God, Mother Mary Angelica Alvarez Icaza with her spiritual director Msgr. Luis Maria Martinez Rodriguez, who was Archbishop of Mexico. What began as a spiritual friendship continues to produce fruits of eternal life through the writings of both .
In that context and to motivate the knowledge, study and imitation in God’s love of these two great Mexican figures of the past century, the postulator of the cause of canonization, Father Pedro Fernandez Rodriguez, prominent doctor in theology traveled to Mexico to develop a series of activities in the capital’s archdiocese.
Father Fernandez gave several lectures at the Monastery of the Visitation of Holy Mary, founded by Mother Mary Angelica. At St Bernardino of Siena in Xochimilco I-accompanied by the auxiliary bishop of the Vicariate VIII, Mons. Andrés Vargas Peña and Fr. Adrian Mora Huerta, vice postulator of the cause of canonization, he gave a lecture on the mystical life of these two servants of God.
Also on Thursday celebrated a Mass in the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception of the Metropolitan Cathedral, where the remains of Mons. Luis Maria Martinez, are.
Father Fernández Rodríguez stressed the importance of publicizing the figure of Mons. Luis Maria Martinez, who was a great Archbishop of Mexico, from 1937 until his death in 1956, and Mother Mary Angelica, “”Two mystical souls” who have much to contribute as examples and intercessors in the concrete reality of the Church in Mexico today.
“Mons. Luis Maria Martinez, being rector of the seminary and then auxiliary bishop of Morelia, worked hard for the organization of Catholics to the Church in this country, and as Archbishop of Mexico, his great work was to seek reconciliation and social policy after the Cristero War, but we must also highlight his life of holiness, because he was spiritual director of many souls and a great defender of the poor “, he said.
About Mother Mary Angelica Alvarez Icaza he said she wasa nun of a contemplative cloistered monastery, to whom the Lord gave great mystical graces, among which was the spiritual marriage and the grace of the “action “which can be described as identification with Christ the priest and victim, that has nothing to do with the ministry of the priesthood, but” an intimate grace for the soul, “and also having great force when asking God mercy for Mexico “.
On the process of beatification of these two servants of God, Father Fernandez Rodriguez explained that both are awaiting the study of the theologians of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.
To advance the causes they need knowledgeable people of spiritual theology and mystical theology to conduct studies on the mystical life of these two servants of God, “that as Catholics at a difficult time in the history of Mexico, they help us to realize the importance of the relationship with God, prayer and penance, said the postulator.
“The key message is to tell us that we must always pray and do penance, to contact God, and today that we remember how to make the Church present in all sectors of society. We live in a very troubled society, there is much sin and God will have to do something to change that, but we always need holy people, who are close to God and pray for us so that we deserve forgiveness, “he said.
The work
Mystical life of the Servant of God Maria Angelica Alvarez Icaza, is the title of the book published by the Vatican Library, with a foreword by the Archbishop of Mexico, Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera.
The text is a theological study of the mystical life of Mother Mary Angelica, in the context of which stands the mystical grace of the “action” received by the Servant of God and approved by her spiritual director, also a servant of God, Mons. Luis Maria Martinez Rodriguez.
In the prologue, Cardinal. Rivera Carrera said that this study is an invitation to reflection and prayer, hoping that other theologians are encouraged to help in the discernment of this mystical grace of the “action” received by Mother Mary Angelica, which is a “challenge” to explain with truth and respect the mysteries of “songs of divine love”, as he called the Servant of God.
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