September 1914. The most decisive influence for Christianity, in all ages, was that of women, an "undeniable" and "fruitful" fact, according to Poveda. It is not surprising that in this same year, 1914, in his opening talk at a seminar in Jaen Poveda would speak at some risk, given the state of the feminist question in certain ecclesiastical circles about whether there was need to study the topic of women. Taking this approach, he had to face the mistrust of conservative opinion on one side and of the so called "progressives" on the other, at a time when suffragist feminism was emerging.
Open letter in which Pedro Poveda discusses the importance of Covadonga as the "cradle" of the Teresian Association, dated in Madrid, December 1928.
March 13, 1931. Notes. The emphatic manner in which Poveda here re-visits the relationship between spirit and knowledge in his Work is significant. At this time (1931) the possibility of religion and learning being compatible was questioned more than ever, especially in the field of education. The solid intellectual training of the educators in Poveda's Association would contribute to the credibility of a Christian teaching profession. The specific mark of his Association, what governed its foundation, was the mission to live and witness to the harmony between faith and knowledge which is and was so often vigorously disputed, particularly so at the time this text was written.
June 5,1927. Letter to the students of a center in Barcelona.
During the late 1920s and particularly in the 1930s, in the atmosphere of accelerated secularization in which he lived, Poveda referred with renewed emphasis to the men and women of the early Church, who were capable of keeping their faith and confessing it in the midst of a pagan society,
April 9, 1915; first published in October 1916. Personal letter to one of his first collaborators. Belonging to God was inspired by an article by the Augustinian priest Restituto del Valle: "Apuntes acerca del caracter de Santa Teresa" (Notes concerning the character of Saint Teresa), published to mark the centenary of the beatification of St Teresa. From this time onwards, Poveda proposed to his collaborators the option of a life fully given to God, a life also fully human and perfected by the divine.
Letter to the young students of the Academy of Málaga, dated May 1936.
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Personal letter to a young teacher, Julia Ochoa, who took responsibility for the University Residence of Madrid in 1931. Dated in Madrid in September of that year.
First published in the periodical "El Pueblo Católico" (Catholic People) in Jaén on April 1, 1915. In this text on the contemplation of the Crucifix, Poveda begins to develop an aspect of his spirituality that was gradually strengthened in later documents.
Written in the format of an open letter, this initiates a set of basic writings that are appropriate to know the spirituality of Poveda. These were published under the title Jesus Teacher of Prayer in Córdoba on February 10, 1922.
Using a format to comment on a sentence from Scripture, Poveda classifies such writings as "Considerations." This is part of a set celled "Jesus, Teacher of prayer."