God fills my being to the brim with floods of His immensity. I drown within a drop of Him whose sea-bed is infinity....
Quote of the day, 27 June: Jessica Powers
Quote of the day, 12 June: St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
For the feast day of her prioress in 1902, St. Elizabeth of the Trinity wrote: "Infinite Being! Depth unsoundable! Delighted, lost in Your Divinity — O Trinity, God thrice-immutable, We see Yourself in Your own clarity."
Marie du jour 2022, 3 May: St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity writes to her beloved Abbé Chevignard in 1903, "To think that God calls us by our vocation to live in this holy light! What an adorable mystery of charity! I would like to respond to it by living on earth as the Blessed Virgin did, 'keeping all these things in my heart'..."
Quote of the day, 18 March: St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
St. Elizabeth of the Trinity conveys to a friend the consolation that she finds in knowing that the judge of the living and the dead is the savior who always dwells within her and within each one of us, loving and forgiving.
Quote of the day, 8 March: St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
He wants to be my peace so that nothing can distract me or draw me out of “the invincible fortress of holy recollection.” It is there that He will give me “access to the Father” and will keep me as still and as peaceful in His presence as if my soul were already in eternity.
Quote of the day, 8 February: Anders Arborelius, o.c.d.
Each one of us is invited to a personal friendship with Jesus. Teresa of Avila speaks about prayer as friendship. We can always remain with our friend Jesus and find our joy in Him, because He rejoices in us.
Quote of the day, 12 January: Chiquitunga
Only one thing will I ask of you, since the rest will be given to me and you will give it to me in addition: what I ask is for Love to be able to Love
Quote of the day, 11 July: St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
“It is by virtue of this immense love” that we are drawn into the depths of the “intimate sanctuary” where God “imprints on us a true image of His majesty.”
Marie du jour 2021, May 26: St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
I will look very often at this precious picture and will unite myself to the soul of the Virgin
Marie du jour 2021, May 20: Père Jacques
In those silent hours of prayer, the Holy Spirit inflamed Mary’s heart and swept her up into the bosom of the triune God
Marie du jour 2021, 11 May: St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
There is one who was also the great praise of glory of the Holy Trinity
Marie du jour 2021, May 8: St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
“Virgo fidelis”: that is, Faithful Virgin, “who kept all these things in her heart.”
Quote of the day, 22 January: St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
His will is that we should be established in Him, that we should live where He lives, in the unity of love
8 November: Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity Catez
O my God, Trinity Whom I adore, help me to forget myself entirely
Quote of the day: 16 September
We can remain in God’s presence, however busy we are, however we feel
Quote of the day: 28 June
Listen to St. Paul again who will give you a program of life.
The influence of St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
I want to live a life of heaven, as Elizabeth says
Marie du jour 2020: 20 May
I will be very united to you in the soul of the Virgin
Quote of the day: 27 April
Rather than a pedagogy Teresa’s is a true “mystagogy” of prayer
November 8: St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
O my God, Trinity Whom I adore, help me to forget myself entirely
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