NEF July 2025

“He lived (Saint Michael) in an era in which the principle of autonomy was becoming absolute, breeding what he called “the spirit of insubordination” (an unruly and rebellious spirit of revolution, not prophetic but sectarian). So the shepherd of Ibarre proposed the opposite: the “religious spirit,” founded on the great examples in Sacred Scripture in which the creature discovers the joy of obeying out of love for his Lord and Creator and throws himself unreservedly into His service.” (Fr. Gustavo Agín SCJ)