The Mystical Evolution In the Development and Vitality of the Church (vol. 2)

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vol. 2 is Part II and Part III of the original Spanish

According to Sr. Dorcy's St. Dominic's Family: Lives of Over 300 Famous Dominicans, Fr. Arintero had a physics background. He also influenced Fr. Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange.

Appendix:

2. THE MARVELS OF GOD IN THE WEAKER SEX

Weiss, Apologie , X, conf. 23:

Although we should proceed with a certain caution in regard to the marvels of God within ourselves, we cannot approve of those who shorten the arm of God and believe that these things are no longer realized in modern times and that therefore they are to be found only in simple women. . . . What! Women! Are they perhaps weak beings, those women who so energetically restrained their passions, performed heroic mortifications, and served God with all fidelity? (Rivera, Vita S. Theresae , pp. 1, 2, 37). It is certainly not a reproach to them to say that they alone walk along the way of perfection with a manly seriousness. Nor is it any shame to Christianity that it fills with heroic women and virgins the vacancies left by men who have deserted. Should not those men feel ashamed of their weakness, rather than insult such women and depreciate the teaching which God gives to them, showing Himself to be great in little things and making strong that which is weak? (Blessed Raymond, Vita S. Catharinae Senensis, 2, 11, 12). Let no one attribute to himself the gift of God who gives to whom He pleases (Rom. 9:18; Heb. 5:4). And no one has any right to ask Him why He acts thus. God has given to men the priesthood, the mission of preaching, the public apostolate, and so on. Men have enough honors, obligations, and responsibilities. In what way is it prejudicial to men if God gives to women the task of ornamenting His Church and for this purpose bestowing on them certain extraordinary gifts? . . . In times when many men fled from the Church and only a few Nicodemuses came by night to converse with Jesus; when even the servants of the sanctuary were paralyzed with fear and could do nothing but keep silent and follow the dictates of carnal prudence; when the faith was despised and adherence to the Church had become an object of ridicule and when mortification and piety were considered old women's fables; it seems to us that such times were the most fitting for God to come to the aid of His Church by extraordinary gifts. . . . Each year that we approach closer to the end of time we are made to see more clearly that we have great need of saints and miracles. . . . Miracles can be compared to honor, which is the shadow of virtue, for a miracle is the shadow of sanctity. A shadow flees from him who pursues it and it obstinately clings to the steps of him who flees from it. The miraculous pursues the saints as if to recompense them for the solicitude with which they strive to avoid it.

cf. the quote from Teología de la Perfección Cristiana by Fr. Royo Marín, O.P., about how women have had the vast share of mystical graces.