Carmelite wisdom to encourage & inspire
St. Elizabeth of the Trinity was thrilled to learn that her second niece was born during Holy Week 1905, and she wrote to her sister Guite as soon as permitted: "Here is Odette arriving on the day when the Master was sold to redeem her little soul"... it was Spy Wednesday.
I have not forgotten your business matter, but nothing more can be done now, although I have a great desire to do so. Entrust this earnestly to God and take our Lady and St. Joseph as your advocates in it.
I beg you, oh, mark everything with the seal of love! It alone endures.
Since the immense blessings of God can only enter and fit into an empty and solitary heart, the Lord wants you to be alone. For he truly loves you with the desire of being himself all your company.
I saw clearly that a soul which sanctifies itself becomes fruitful in attracting souls to God.
This one friar who is so great a servant of God is so weak from all that he has suffered that I fear for his life
The day of my Habit Reception, 6th April 1883, my poor little Thérèse, who was very sick at that time, came to embrace me before the ceremony
We simply need to pray diligently for each other
It does us much good to look into the soul of saints and then to follow them through faith right up to Heaven
She positively believed that the good Lord couldn't do anything to her if she was in her mother's arms
I think that in Heaven my mission will be to draw souls
Her great desire will be fulfilled: I will be a priest, an apostle according to God's heart
There is a Being who is Love and who wishes us to live in communion with Him
Rosa also has no toothbrush, no Cross and no rosary
I asked Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus to write down what I called “her little way of trust and love”
Tomorrow I am going to Ubeda for the cure of a slight bout of fever
... through the pierced Heart of the Mother of Sorrows.
He wants me to be another humanity for Him in which He can still suffer for the glory of His Father
But the poor little bride of Jesus feels that she loves Jesus for Him alone
I sacrifice my days of suffering for my parish... with God's help I hope to persevere
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