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God Alone
Set amid the tumult of the Spanish Civil War, this spiritual biography recounts the efforts of a fervent young Spanish aristocrat to come to grips with his artistic talent, his intense personality and, above all, his unquenchable passion for God. Trained in art and architecture, Rafael longed to be a Trappist, but was obliged repeatedly by war and illness to withdraw, and then try again. His intensively personal reflections form the basis of this biography of a man intent on giving his life to God despite all obstacles.
To Live for God Alone
"A biography of Saint Rafael Arnaiz including excerpts from his writings"--
To Live for God Alone
What does it mean to live for God alone? “Prefer nothing to the love of Christ”; “My God and my all”; “God alone suffices”—these statements from the saints express the single desire that unified their hearts and gave direction to their lives. “God alone” was the constant theme of Saint Rafael Arnaiz (1911–1938), the expression of the search for God that informs any monastic vocation. Saint Rafael was profoundly and thoroughly a monk, even though ill health repeatedly forced him to leave the monastery, and he was never formally professed. With his single-hearted love for Christ and for the Blessed Virgin, he faithfully walked a path of trials and suffering that matured his faith, sharpened his longing, taught him to wait and to hope in God, and opened his heart to love. To Live for God Alone invites the reader into the compelling story of Rafael’s personal journey and into his penetrating insight into the cross and the Christian vocation.
The Collected Works
Saint Rafael Arnaiz was born in Burgos, Spain, on April 9, 1911. When he was twenty-one years old, he left behind the comforts of his wealthy family and an unfinished degree in architecture to join the Trappist-Cistercian abbey of San Isidro de Dueñas. A sudden onset of diabetes and the beginning of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) turned his monastic journey into an unusual one. In these unfavorable circumstances and despite the shortness of his life (he died soon after his twenty-seventh birthday), Rafael developed a solid spirituality, which in its simplicity is a straight path to holiness. He has been compared to mystics like Teresa of Ávila and John of the Cross, whose writings inspired him, and his theology of the cross, born from his prayer, places him in continuity with the best of the monastic tradition. In his letters and journals, compiled in this volume, his heart speaks of the joys and struggles of striving to live for God alone.
Rafael Arnaiz Barón, hermano y santo
El libro recopila diversos artículos del autor escritos a lo largo de los últimos años, en los que aborda facetas de la figura del hermano san Rafael Arnaiz Barón, del que en 2011 se cumplieron 100 años de su nacimiento.
Rafael Arnáiz
Rafael Arnaiz était le prototype du "fils à papa". Beau, fortuné, doué, cet hidalgo espagnol, né à Burgos en 1911, se destinait à devenir architecte. Mais, à 19 ans, le "jeune homme riche" visite un monastère cistercien. Subjugué par l'appel de Dieu, il quitte tout, non sans combat intérieur. Un diabète foudroyant et la guerre civile l'obligent à sortir trois fois de l'abbaye ! Rafael meurt en 1938, à la fleur de l'âge, avec le sourire de celui qui s'est tout donné pour aimer l'Amour. Seul à seul avec Dieu. "Je veux être un saint humain" écrivait-il... L'Eglise l'a canonisé en 2009 et donné en modèle aux jeunes chrétiens du troisième millénaire.
Ejercicios espirituales con el Hermano Rafael
San Rafael Arnáiz Barón (1911-1938) es uno de los más notables místicos del siglo XX. Su estrecho parentesco espiritual con aquel otro gran místico del Siglo de Oro, san Ignacio de Loyola, queda de manifiesto en este libro. El nuevo y joven santo, casi contemporáneo nuestro, lleva también en sus venas el espíritu ardiente y misionero de nuestra mejor tradición católica, de tan vital necesidad en este tiempo. El camino espiritual del Hermano Rafael es una realización viva de esa entrega incondicional de la propia vida a Dios en Jesucristo, para su Iglesia y para el mundo, a la que conducen los Ejercicios Espirituales. En días de increencia, sólido alimento de fe y esperanza para todos: jóvenes y mayores; sacerdotes, consagrados y laicos.
