Was the future blessed a woman more inclined to contemplation or to action?
Father Sez de Albniz: Contemplation and action are not separate but concomitant. A contemplation that is bare and removed from the needs of men would be far from what Christ was: the Son who lived in perpetual intimacy with the Father, and the One Sent who journeyed on the roads, preaching, teaching and curing the sick and the possessed because that was the will of the One who sent him. Action without prayer would be, perhaps, only philanthropy. From her youth, Matilde was delighted to be at the foot of the tabernacle. She very soon discovered the value of reparation, and if she ever had the thought of shutting herself in a cloistered convent, in fact, she decided to go out to the streets to look for sinners, the poor, the sick, and all those who are Jesus’ favorites. “I will bring you, Lord, all the hearts that I can, so that they will love and adore you,” she said. Throughout her life, she was profoundly rooted in prayer and determined to take the love of Christ to the neediest. Q: W
