On this date, women members of the Work moved in to the house on Jorge Manrique street, officially starting that family life in the first centre of the women’s section.
St. Josemaria asked his sister (“aunt Carmen”, as members of the Work call her) to help them in the setup of the centre in those early days. One of them present at that time tells: A few days later our father came. After talking to us for quite a while about interior life, we gave him a tour of the house and we stopped in the room that had been designated for the chapel. He urged us to get it up as soon as possible - he used to say: [“I count centers once there’s a tabernacle there”] - and he dedicated many moments, with the help of don Alvaro, to that job.
Soon after he told us to say the Preces in the living room and that, upon kissing the floor, we should ask our Lord to arrive soon to the first Tabernacle that the women’s section was going to have. When the arrangements were finished, the father preached a medication and celebrated Holy Mass to leave the Most Holy Sacrament in the tabernacle. Afterwards, almost on a daily basis, the father used to celebrate Mass in that centre. It was in that chapel, on February 14th, 1943, where our father “saw” the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross while he was celebrating theMass”.
(See: http://turningthewaterwheel.blogspot.com.au/2015/02/priestly-society-of-holy-cross.html)
No comments:
Post a Comment