{"id":5754,"date":"2026-04-16T00:36:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T00:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carmenhernandez.org\/light-and-darkness-bless-the-lord\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T01:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:19:15","slug":"light-and-darkness-bless-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carmenhernandez.org\/en\/light-and-darkness-bless-the-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"Light and Darkness, Bless the Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Servant of God Carmen Hern\u00e1ndez Barrera in Barcelona, 1962\u20131964. A Brief Historical Study.<\/h5>\n\n
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\u201cBarcelona has been a pivotal place in the spiritual and personal growth of the protagonist of this book…\u201d With these words begins the foreword to the book: \u201c<\/i>Light and Darkness, Bless the Lord: The Servant of God Carmen Hern\u00e1ndez Barrera in Barcelona (1962\u20131964). A Brief Historical Study<\/i><\/b>\u201d<\/i>, written by Cardinal Juan Jos\u00e9 Omella, Archbishop of Barcelona.<\/p>\n\n

The book, written by Jorge Borrell Calonge and Jos\u00e9 Casas Canellas<\/b>, both members of the Neocatechumenal Way, chronologically examines the events that unfolded in Carmen\u2019s life during this period. In Barcelona, the stage of her life in the Congregation of the Missionaries of Jesus\u2014an institute to which she had belonged since 1953\u2014came to an end, and in Barcelona she began another stage lasting about ten months, grasping in the dark for God\u2019s will. Carmen would then live in several poor neighborhoods of Barcelona, work in various factories, undertake with some companions the project of a new mission, and finally embrace the truly providential inspiration to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, return to Barcelona, and eventually move to Madrid.<\/p>\n\n

However, the event that Carmen considered most significant during this period\u2014and which the book provides a detailed chronological account of\u2014was her meeting with the liturgist Fr. Pedro Farn\u00e9s Scherer. She affirmed that the Lord, through Fr. Farn\u00e9s, gave her a \u201cpreview\u201d of the essential teachings of what would become the Second Vatican Council (1962\u20131965): above all, the Paschal Mystery, the center and source of Christian life, which Carmen experienced in a special way in the Cathedral of Barcelona during Holy Week in 1962.<\/p>\n\n

May reading this brief historical account help us to get to know Carmen better, to understand how the Lord guided her to discover her vocation, and to learn of her desire to live according to His will and to love Him above all else.<\/p>\n\n

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Title:<\/strong>Light and Darkness, Bless the Lord<\/p>\n\n

Publisher:<\/strong><\/b>Descl\u00e9e De Brouwer<\/p>\n\n

Authors:<\/strong>Jorge Borrell Calonge y Jos\u00e9 Casas Canellas<\/p>\n\n

Reference:<\/strong> RE01271<\/p>\n\n

ISBN:<\/strong> 9788433039880<\/p>\n\n

Pages:<\/strong> 120<\/p>\n\n

Binding:<\/b> Paperback<\/p>\n\n

Format:<\/strong> 135 mm x 210 mm<\/p>\n\n

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The Servant of God Carmen Hern\u00e1ndez Barrera in Barcelona, 1962\u20131964. A Brief Historical Study. \u201cBarcelona has been a pivotal place in the spiritual and personal growth of the protagonist of this book…\u201d With these words begins the foreword to the book: \u201cLight and Darkness, Bless the Lord: The Servant of<\/p>\n

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