In the Face of Darkness - Marie Kennedy O C D, Timothy
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In 1927, during the murderous anti-Catholic reign of Mexican president Plutarco Elias Calles, Mother Luisita and two members of her Carmelite community cast off their religious habits, donned secular clothes, trembling all the while, started out on a perilous flight from the brutal, atheistic government intent on killing them. Neither their forced exile nor those death squads broke these brave nuns, suddenly thrust into the barren American Southwest. For in addition to the meager possessions they carried with them, they bore deep within their hearts a confident love of Jesus as well as a…mehr

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In 1927, during the murderous anti-Catholic reign of Mexican president Plutarco Elias Calles, Mother Luisita and two members of her Carmelite community cast off their religious habits, donned secular clothes, trembling all the while, started out on a perilous flight from the brutal, atheistic government intent on killing them. Neither their forced exile nor those death squads broke these brave nuns, suddenly thrust into the barren American Southwest. For in addition to the meager possessions they carried with them, they bore deep within their hearts a confident love of Jesus as well as a devotion to that principle by which Mother Luisita had directed their steps: "Adelante! Onward! God will Provide!" Strangers in a strange land they were now]] but not for long! Mother Luisita's beautiful, prayerful presence soon won these nuns friends and patrons in America, where she and her companions continued their mission. In the decades since then, Mother Luisita's communities have brought comfort and hope to countless sick and suffering, lost and downtrodden souls who have discovered the liberating truth in Mother Luisita's words: "For greater things you were born!" In these pages, you'll read the moving story of Mother Luisita's heroic adventures and learn her secrets of holiness. It's a story that will renew your confidence in the loving protection of God, strengthen your spirit, and "" as Mother Luisita's secrets of holiness did for her and her spirit, and "" shield you from temptation and deliver you from evil.
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Sister Timothy Marie Kennedy, O.C.D., is a member of the Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles. She was born and raised in Long Beach California, the third of five children. Sister Timothy attended Mount St. Mary's College in Los Angeles California and has a B.A. in English and an M.S. in Educational Administration. She has served in the retreat and education ministries of the Carmelite Sisters as Retreat Directress, Vocation Directress, teacher and principal in various schools. She is currently residing at Loretto Convent in Douglas, Arizona.Sister Timothy Marie edited the two-volume set of the letters of Mother Luisita, the foundress of the Carmelite Sisters, "In Love's Safekeeping: the Letters of Mother Luisita." Sister Timothy comes from a family of Irish writers and story-tellers.