Throughout the history of the Daughters of Jesus, the life and words of Mother Candida have been a source of inspiration, light and journey for many people. Her experience of God, lived with simplicity and depth, continues to speak to us today. Her charism is today and always a gift for the Mother Candida Family, for the Church and for the world.
As we do at other times of the year with significant figures of our family, we want to approach their lives through their own words. Because in them we find not only thoughts, but a way of looking, of trusting and of living.
Mother Candida teaches us that faith is incarnated in the everyday, in the small, in the simple. Her life, marked by trust in God and generous dedication, remains today an invitation to live with audacity and hope.
Over the next few days, we will be sharing a series of phrases from Mother Candida that will accompany us like little lights on the road. Each one of them can be an opportunity to stop, to listen and to let ourselves be touched by what is essential.
As we have already experienced on other occasions – for example, when approaching the life of Antoñita, whose testimony continues to encourage us to live with dedication and authenticity – these words want to help us to make an interior journey, grounded in today, personal and also shared.
A path to make your own
We invite you not to remain alone in your reading. It may help you during this time to have an image of St. Candida nearby. Think of her and of yourself… and make each sentence a space of encounter with yourself and with God.
You can ask yourself:
what does this phrase say to me for my life today?
what does it awaken in me?
what does it invite me to in the concrete aspects of my life?
In addition, we have prepared a downloadable resource in the different languages so that you can collect, pray and save these phrases, and thus make your own journey during these days.
You can find it in several languages: Spanish, Portuguese, English and Chinese.
May this time be an opportunity to let ourselves be accompanied by Mother Candida, and to rediscover the strength of a charism that is still alive today.
