Quote of the day, 10 October: St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

Oh, how good Carmel is; I can’t find words to say this enough!

Tuesday [15 October] we’re going to celebrate the feast of Saint Teresa, and I’m already delighted about it. We’ll have the Blessed Sacrament in choir, and on that day I think I can stay there as much as I want; so you can imagine how I’m going to indulge myself!

Oh! if you knew what heavenly days your friend is spending in Carmel! I am growing weaker day by day, and I feel the Master will not delay much longer in coming to seek me. I am tasting, experiencing unknown joys.

The joy of pain, oh! little Germaine, how pleasant and sweet it is!… Before I die, I dream of being transformed into Jesus Crucified, and that gives me so much strength in suffering….

Little sister, we should have no other ideal but to be conformed to that divine Model; then what eagerness we would have in sacrifice, in contempt of ourselves, if the eyes of our heart [cf. Eph 1:18] were always focused on Him.

Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity

Letter 97 to her sister Guite (excerpt)
10 October 1901

Letter 324 to her friend Germaine de Gemeaux (excerpt)
Around 10 October 1906

Elizabeth of the Trinity, S 2003, The Complete Works of Elizabeth of the Trinity volume 2: Letters from Carmel, Nash, A (trans.), ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: Left: Photograph of St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, October 1906. Image via Discalced Carmelites (by permission). Right: Artist unknown, Ecce Homo Cristo Pobre, oil on canvas, 109 x 81 cm, Pinacoteca Universidad de Concepción, Chile. Image via Chile Patrimonios/SURDOC (used for non-commercial educational purposes).

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