Carmelite wisdom to encourage & inspire
I am praying fervently for you, for I feel that the Master loves you so much, and I ask Him to take you, to draw you more and more to Himself so that through everything you will enjoy His presence.
"My Mother, here is the Bridegroom!" This was the inscription on the holy card that St. Elizabeth of the Trinity presented as a gift to her novice mistress on the day of her religious profession, 11 January 1903. Learn more about this day...
Don't you understand what love is when it concerns Him who has so loved us? If only you knew how He loves you, and how I love you too!…
I wish I were a painter so I could make you a sketch of the scene that surrounds me [...] the moonlight is flooding our cell through the frosted window panes, it's ravishing [...] All is calm and silent, and that makes me think of the night when the little Jesus was given to us.
When I read in the Gospel “that Mary went in haste to the hill country of Judea” to perform her loving service for her cousin Elizabeth, I imagine her passing by so beautiful, so calm and so majestic
The holy time of Advent is here; it seems to me that it is very especially the season of interior souls; in the silence of prayer, let us listen to Him.
Today we dare to introduce to the world this cloistered religious who led a "life hidden with Christ in God" because she is a witness who is bursting with the joy that is rooted and grounded in love.
I think that the “new song” which will most charm and captivate my God is that of a soul stripped and freed from self, one in whom He can reflect all that He is, and do all that He wills.
Today we dare to introduce to the world this cloistered nun who lived a "life hidden in Christ with God" because she is a shining witness of the joy of being rooted and grounded in love.
O my God, Trinity Whom I adore, help me to forget myself entirely that I may be established in You as still and as peaceful as if my soul were already in eternity.
We still heard her murmur in a kind of chant: "I am going to light, to life, to love!" These were her last intelligible words.
In the heaven of our soul let us be praises of glory of the Holy Trinity, praises of love of our Immaculate Mother. One day the veil will fall, we will be introduced into the eternal courts, and there we will sing in the bosom of infinite Love.
Oh, how we ought to pray for the dying! I would gladly spend my eternity beside them, to help them, for there is something frightening about death!
I want to send you a little note from my soul for I am anxious for you to know that in the Father’s House I will pray especially for you.
My beloved Antoinette, I leave you my faith in the presence of God, of the God who is all Love dwelling in our souls.
You will have battles to fight, my little brother, you will encounter obstacles on the path of life, but do not be discouraged, call me.
Courage, let us look at the Crucified and be conformed to that divine image.
‘Let yourself be loved more than these’ is your vocation. It is in being faithful to it that you will make Me happy for you will magnify the power of My love.
I leave you my devotion for the Three, to "Love". Live within with Them in the heaven of your soul.
In this novena, we will ponder nine of her personal messages that reflect her last words: "I am going to light, to life, to love!"
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