The Kindle eBook version of the book is now available on Amazon eBook by Sister Tarsicio de San José hpm*: Sister Juana Josefa Bermúdez Pirela hpm Personal Notes (Spanish Edition). *On a computer, you can read a sample of the first 82 pages at the link https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09PFG5QBV?... On a mobile device, the same sample can be read at the link https://read.amazon.com/litb/B09PFG5Q... The black and white paperback version is also available at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09NW5CNYH REVIEW: SISTER TARSICIO DE SAN JOSÉ, hpm. Personal Notes. Poems and Spiritual Writings. Imprimatur: His Eminence Cardinal Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo, Archbishop of Mérida and Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Caracas. – October 6, 2021. Nihil Obstat: Father Ramón Vinke and Father Enrique Yanes Presentation: Dr. María García de Fleury Sister Tarsicio de San José, HPM - Sister Juana Josefa Bermúdez Pirela is a mystic religious, poet, and historian of the Congregation of the Little Sisters of the Poor Maiquetía Venezuela. She was born in the city of Maracaibo on January 30, 1898, and passed to Heaven, in the odor of sanctity, on April 15, 1993, in the same city, at the age of 95, after receiving the Holy Sacraments, Confession, Extreme Unction, and the Holy Eucharist. In her writings and poems, we find a woman with a spirituality full of many virtues, who practiced self-denial and total abandonment to the Holy Trinity, the Triune God; and who found and heard His Voice in her daily life, adoring Him, praying, and working. She was a student and practitioner of very diverse and rich Catholic sources, such as those of Saint John of the Rosary*. Cross, Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Benedict, Saint Augustine, Saint Teresa of Jesus among many others. She was a religious observant, contemplative, penitent, and true to her name Tarcisius, of Eucharistic Adoration. In her writings and poems, she highlights characteristics very characteristic of all these observances, of action and abandonment, and of service and dedication to the poorest; of recollection, silence, meditation, and prayer This personal diary, which deals with the most intimate part of her... she titled it Personal Notes, and it allows us to read her heart!.... An old aphorism says: "Speak to know yourself"*. In the case of Sister Tarsicio de San José, I would say, "Write to know yourself." "It's time to read what her Heart wrote!" ** *IN THIS BOOK YOU WILL FIND: • The Spiritual Writings of Sister Tarsicio de San José, a contemplative in action and active in contemplation • 371 poems by Sister Tarsicio de San José Each one a life lesson. Many of them filled with extraordinary mystical beauty. • More than 80 pages of testimonies from the first Co-founding Sisters of their Congregation, who were firsthand witnesses of how Mother Emilia single-handedly founded the first Venezuelan congregation with a formal diocesan ecclesial structure, with a General Council of professed nuns, and having designated a successor as Major Superior before her death. • The story of the six steps planned and executed by Mother Emilia of Saint Joseph to found her Congregation. • About how, after her death, the Work of Mother Emilia of Saint Joseph was planned and almost destroyed: - The Congregation - How its Constitutions and spiritual writings were destroyed, and how they attempted to erase her name as founder* • About how the abuses of power, irregularities, and disobedience to the Holy See required the intervention of the Vatican authorities and the Archbishop of Venezuela, His Eminence Juan Bautista Castro, in the years 1910-1912, and how those responsible later slandered and blamed the conflict on the Apostolic Delegate in Venezuela, Bishop José Aversa; the Apostolic Visitor of the Congregation, the Reverend Fray José María Ibarreta, who was also the Superior of the Dominican Fathers in Caracas; and on the Archbishopric of Caracas, His Excellency and Most Reverend Dr. Juan Bautista Castro • How the evidence found in her investigations by Sr. Tarsicio de San José confirms the excellence, thoughtfulness, and balance of the Holy See and the Archdiocese of Caracas in the conflict generated by the Superiors of the Congregation and Father Santiago Machado • How Sister Tarsicio de San José worked since 1925 to preserve the historical memory of Mother Emilia, the co-founders, and the Foundation of the Congregation* • The Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Sister Tarsicio de San José, hpm. Several of the most important descriptions were written in poems • How Sister Tarsicio had great faith and an admirable certainty that her writings would reach their final destination*