{"id":49315,"date":"2025-06-12T19:09:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T17:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hijasdejesus.org\/candida-ma-de-jesus-a-trinitarian-experience-that-comes-to-us-in-silence\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T16:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T14:14:06","slug":"candida-ma-de-jesus-a-trinitarian-experience-that-comes-to-us-in-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hijasdejesus.org\/en\/candida-ma-de-jesus-a-trinitarian-experience-that-comes-to-us-in-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Candida M. de Jesus: a Trinitarian experience that comes to us in silence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On the feast of the Most Holy Trinity<\/strong>, we want to take a look at how St. Candida Mary of Jesus<\/strong> lived this mystery of faith, and what her experience as a believer can tell us today.<\/p>\n\n

To this end, we will share some ideas gathered in the text \u201cFollowing the thread\u201d, the<\/strong> result of an in-depth study carried out by M\u00aa del Pilar Linde FI <\/strong>in 2018. <\/p>\n\n

A devotion interwoven with life<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

When we speak of the spirituality of St. Candida Maria de Jesus<\/strong>, we usually do so by highlighting her love for the Eucharist, her filial trust in the Virgin and her total dedication to God. However, there is an intimate, persistent and profoundly significant trait that runs through her life: her devotion to the Most Holy Trinity<\/strong>. Not as a doctrinal treatise nor as an isolated pious exercise, but as an existential attitude of faith, love, service and total availability to the will of God.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n

M. Candida did not leave systematic texts on her relationship with the Trinity. However, this devotion was alive and present in her letters where she mixed daily matters and advice of faith, and above all, in her simple gestures and in the naturalness of her life. <\/p>\n\n

As Ignatian spirituality reminds us, devotion is not limited to exercises of piety, but is lived in all the actions and situations of existence<\/strong>. In M. Candida, this devotion translated into a constant attitude of seeking God, recognizing his presence and obeying his will<\/strong>, as the only reason for her life. <\/p>\n\n

A painting in his office<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n

Several witnesses have left us the reference to small gestures of St. Candida before a picture of the Trinity that she had in her office. Father Nazario Perez relates the following: <\/p>\n\n

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\u201cHe had a picture of the Trinity in his office. He was continually looking at it, day and night, and many times folding his hands on his chest he would stare at it…\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

One of the most touching testimonies is that of the sister who attended in her last years:<\/p>\n\n

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“He had in front of his desk a picture of SS. Trinity. Many times I have seen her, interrupting her work, raise her eyes to the picture and say sometimes loudly and sometimes softly: \u201cO Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit…\u201d<\/em>Before entering her bedroom, she would greet the picture with a nod of her head and inside, before going to bed, she would turn to look at it and greet it through a slit in the curtains. <\/em> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Another witness alludes to the same picture: <\/p>\n\n

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He had a picture of the Blessed Trinity that we have in storage, and he was always looking at it and saying ejaculatory prayers, and another affirms that he used to pray before it with great devotion. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Eloquent silence<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n

It is surprising that a devotion so alive and remembered by the congregational tradition is so little documented in their writings. Barely one letter contains an explicit mention of the Trinity. The spiritual notes that are preserved are from his early years, the later ones are not preserved. Did he destroy them out of modesty or discretion? Did he prefer to keep these secrets to himself? It is possible. <\/p>\n\n

The truth is that what she did not write, her life spoke <\/strong>. The testimonies of those who lived with her leave no doubt: her relationship with the Triune God was deep, constant and natural. <\/p>\n\n

We see this reflected, in a special way, as we approach the last hours of M. Candida’s life, when she is close to death. Candida’s life, when she was close to death. One of the Sisters present gives this testimony: <\/p>\n\n

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“When taking food or medicine, he would first bless it, then he would sip it, and to each one he would say<\/em>, “In honor of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, etc.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

<\/em>Can the final etc. of this testimony give us to understand that it was a habitual ejaculatory and therefore known to all? In the account that Father Nazario gives of these same moments, we can read: <\/p>\n\n

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\u201cThe invocations to the saints were very frequent and, above all, to the Persons of the Most Holy Trinity, invoking the sweetest name of the Virgin\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

This fact is of fundamental importance: it was not the right time to introduce new prayers, but rather to spontaneously bring forth what was most deeply rooted in her heart, in her habitual relationship with God, so that in the fact that in each drink M Candida invoked the Holy Trinity we can read a manifestation of her Trinitarian experience, of her love for the One and Triune God who has been at the center of her life and who is now, when imminent death will bring her to meet Him face to face and forever.<\/p>\n\n

Three verbs <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n

From this experience, we can intuit three verbs that summarize his relationship with the Trinity:<\/p>\n\n