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Carmelite
Priests' Remembrances
"...a distinguished religious
who with humility and simplicity was able to realize in a
marvelous way, the contemplative-apostolic ideal of Carmel,
giving a concrete example of the way a true lover of God can
blend within the greatest active apostolic dedication for
the good of the brethren with uninterrupted prayer."
--Father Finian Monahan, Superior General of the Discalced
Carmelites
Rome, July 16, 1977
"I can affirm that I have always seen in Mother Luisita a
great and extraordinary woman convinced of what she was doing,
showing throughout her life a theological way of living in
a truly heroic degree. It would be enough to see the work
of her congregation and the profound spiritual value of so
many of its elements to glimpse that Mother Luisita could
act in no other way than under the inspiration of the Holy
Spirit."
--Father Bernardo Chehaibar, OCD
Provincial Council Member, Mexican Province
March 26, 1978
"With regard to the holiness of Mother Luisita, I admired
and was very much impressed by her profound life of faith
which in my personal opinion meant that she was always faithful
and lovingly opened to the voice of the Spirit using her highest
strength to let God's grace work in her. This mysterious strength
impelled her to do simply what she ought to do, to such a
degree that she became extraordinary in the ordinary.
I also admire how, in spite of her strong character, she exercised
such dominion that, on arriving at the fullness of a life
perfected in heroic suffering through ordinary sweetness and
simplicity, that the whole own could identify her with the
significant name of "the sweet Mother Luisita.
Furthermore, the fact that being a wealthy person of high
social standing, she would detach herself from everything,
to absolutely give her whole being to the Lord, and would
adapt herself to all characters and all degrees of the culture
(social strata) with a true and exquisite fraternal charity,
reveals her intimate union with God in continuous prayer.
Finally, the nearness of Mother Luisita to our own personal
circumstances with her simple, virtuous and holy life, is
an evident proof that God is not only close to us, but within
us, and, at the same time that holiness is a gift within everyone's
reach."
--Father Juan Manuel Vega, OCD, Mexican Province
Guadalajara, March 11, 1978
"Indeed, Mother Luisita's 'fame of holiness' among her (religious)
daughters and the Christian people who knew her personally
is sustained on a solid base. There are reliable testimonies
of her profound and authentic experience of God, of her simple
life, always joyful and generous to heroism in service to
the poor."
--Father Camilo Macisse, OCD
Mexican Province, 1978
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