Quote of the day, 5 March: Blessed Teresa of Guadalajara

We have not had to leave, thanks be to God, as so many of our Sisters have had to do. Our Sisters of Malagón had to leave at midnight on the day they were burning religious houses, without being able to save anything from the fire except the clothes they were wearing.

Have you had to suffer any attacks against your monastery? They say the two religious Orders that have had the most to suffer are the Society of Jesus and our Holy Reform, for being the Orders most hated by the Masons. It is a sign that they are making war on them.

What greater joy is there than to be hated by the enemies of Christ? We suffer much in seeing the wounds inflicted on our Holy Mother the Church, and the blindness of so many souls who, to their own cost, insist on persecuting Him, who gave His blood in order to gain eternal happiness for them.

I wrote to my uncle to find out about you and he answered me that you did not have to flee. You can’t imagine through what struggles and distress we have passed, since, as happens on these occasions, the news coming to us is edited and augmented.

On the eve of the feast of the Ascension (May 14), they told us that the arsonists were in Sigüenza, and since that is so close to us, we spent the entire night expecting they would come here, but everything was very peaceful in Sigüenza. It was all a false report; actually, my father came to see us by way of Sigüenza.

Blessed Teresa of the Child Jesus and St. John of the Cross

Letter to Sr. Maria of St. Teresa, STJ
Octave of Christmas, 1931

Note: We recall the birth of Blessed Teresa on 5 March 1890 and the birth of her companion in martyrdom, Blessed Maria Angeles of St. Joseph on 6 March 1905.

Rodriguez, J 2016, The Dialogues of the Carmelites of Guadalajara: The Story of Three Martyred Carmelite Nuns of the Spanish Civil War, translated by the Carmel of St. Joseph, Carmelite International Publishing House, Trivandrum.

Featured image: A portrait of the three Discalced Carmelite martyrs of the Carmel of St. Joseph in Guadalajara. From left to right: Blessed Teresa, Blessed Maria Pilar, and Blessed Maria Angeles. Image credit: Discalced Carmelites

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