The Admirable Life of Madre Mariana de Jesus Torres (vols. 1 & 2)
| Authors | Pereira, Manuel Sousa Horvat, Marian Therese, Ph.D. |
| Tags | Mariana Francisca de Jesús Torres y Berriochoa -- 1563-1635, Ecuador, Nuns -- Ecuador -- Biography, Religieuses -- Équateur -- Biographies, Nuns |
| Publisher | Tradition in Action |
| Published | 26 gen 2020 |
| Date | 26 giu 2022 |
| Languages | eng |
| Identifiers | Amazon.com, uri: https://www.traditioninaction.org/OLGS/olgshome.htm, isbn: 0972651632, google: yTSQGQAACAAJ, lcc: 2005900988, oclc: 85859126 |
Description
The only centuries old source available on the topic. Used as evidence for the beatification process of Mother Mariana. The first of two volumes by Fr. Pereira. Translated by Marian T. Horvat Who is Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres? She was a Conceptionist nun in Quito, Ecuador, in the 17th century who received apparitions and revelations from Our Lady. Our Lady described an enormous crisis in the Church that would take place in the 20th century. She asked Mother Mariana to become an expiatory victim for that crisis. How did Our Lady describe this crisis? Impurity, heresy and blasphemy would innundate the Church. The remedy for that situation would be linked to the devotion of Our Lady of Good Success. She promised to intervene and defeat the evil when the abuse of power by the religious authorities reached its apex. Why is this devotion so important for each one of us? Our Lady said she wanted to be honored under this title now, in our difficult times. She promised to give her good succ…
vol. 1: 3rd ed. 2020 (ISBN: 0-9726516-3-2, LCN: 2005900988)
vol. 2: 1st ed. 2006 (ISBN: 0-9726516-4-0, LCN: 2006902126)
Know, moreover, that Divine Justice releases terrible chastisements on entire nations not only for the sins of the people, but especially for those of priests and religious persons. For the latter are called by the perfection of their state to be the salt of the earth, the masters of truth, and the shields to hold back Divine Ire.
Straying from their sublime mission, they degrade themselves in such a way that before the eyes of God, they increase the rigor of the punishments. When they detach themselves from Me, they end up living a superficial life of soul, maintaining a distance from Me unworthy of My ministers. By their frigidity and lack of confidence, they act as if I were a stranger to them.
—Fr. Manuel Sousa Pereira, The Admirable Life of Madre Mariana de Jesus Torres vol. 2, p. 280
"Is chastisement due above all to the sins of priests?"