One of the great mystics of the 20th century was a wife and mother

One of the great mystics of the 20th century was a wife and mother: Her name was María Concepción Cabrera Arias de Armida, but she was known as Conchita. She was born in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, on December 8, 1862. She was the seventh of nine children born to well…

As a lay woman she often tried to show her readers how to love the Church. She wrote the following words, which are so fitting for today’s secular world;

To love the Church is not to criticize her, not to destroy her, not to try to change her essential structures, not to reduce her to humanism, horizontalism and to the simple service of human liberation. To love the Church is to cooperate with the work of Redemption by the Cross and in this way obtain the grace of the Holy Spirit come to renew the face of this poor earth, conducting it to its consummation in the design of the Father’s immense love.