Secrets of the Spirit: Wisdom from Luis Martinez
Overview
Luis Martinez shows the way to develop a deep, loving relationship with God with his hope-filled message of God’s love and concern. Without glossing over the reality of sin and suffering, Martinez reminds us that “the work, pain, and sufferings of this world do not constitute the definitive atmosphere of our souls. Our atmosphere is rest in God.” The Holy Spirit guides us in our struggle to grow in union with Jesus.
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- Examines the teachings of Luis M. Martinez
- Provides time-tested spiritual guidance for living a Christian life
- God’s Gift of Peace
- The Language of Silence
- Confidence in God
- God’s Gentleness and Mildness
- Love, Sorrow, Fruitfulness
- Our Hidden God
- Reproducing Jesus in Us
- With Our Whole Heart
- Resting in God’s Heart
- The Holy Spirit, Delightful Guest
- The Holy Spirit and the Virtues
- A Deep Interior Life
- Secrets of the Interior Life
- Transformation in God
- The Blessed Virgin
Top Highlights
“At times we run into the error of subordinating the interior life to the practice of the virtues, as if our contact with God were only a means to perfect ourselves.” (Page 51)
“The more we advance in the spiritual life, the stronger must be our hope. For the struggles become more terrible, the sacrifices greater, and the intimate operations of grace more profound and more difficult to understand.… Hope is a supernatural capacity for receiving the Holy Spirit who aids and sanctifies, with all the divine streams that spring from this fountain.” (Page 47)
“To repeat: the other virtues empty the soul, place it in the desired solitude, cleanse and adorn it. But for communicating with the Beloved in this solitude, the theological virtues are necessary.” (Page 44)
“think that the greater part of the spiritual ills of those who seek perfection comes from a lack of gentleness.” (Page 17)
“speak, of all the graces and heavenly blessings we have received in Christ Jesus.” (Page 1)
Luis Maria Martinez (1881–1956), the former Archbishop of Mexico City and a gifted orator and writer, was admired for his intense dedication to the needs of his people during turbulent years of persecution of the church in Mexico. Today he is perhaps best known as the author of The Sanctifier.