The Life of Sister Lucia (of ima)

What makes "The Life of Sister Lucia" unique? The text is mostly the never-before-published private letters of Sr. Lucia. The great ima scholar, the late Fr. Antonio Martins, SJ, and the late Fr. Robert J. Fox provided commentary to the letters, so the reader puts them in the proper context and sees the deeper meaning in terms of Sr. Lucia's life and mission. In the chapters, we follow the chronology of her life and major developments, such as her decision to leave the Dorothean Congregation for the Carmelites. Fr. Fox had the original Portuguese text translated into English by Portuguese Jesuit priests laboring in Brazil. The book includes correspondence by her to many people at various times in her life. She writes to friends, family members, superiors, priests, bishops, and others. And this is the visionary of ima who was given a worldwide mission to influence popes and the universal Church, as well as the history of the world, at the age of only 10! Sometimes we think that saints or holy people are stuffy and sad. What makes this book unique is that it brings out the humanity of Sr. Lucia. It captures her wit, her almost photographic memory, and reveals her to be quite an extrovert. We also discover how much she had to suffer for Our Lady and the message of ima, what a profound sense of obedience she had, and her evangelical spirit. One needs to keep in mind that there is no comparison between "The Life of Sister Lucia" and her memoirs, which were published in 1974. She wrote them under holy obedience to get the message of ima out to the world. We might think instead of St. Therese of Lisieux and her private letters, which have proven to be most valuable in understanding her. Read more ( javascript:void(0) )

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