Date: April 15, 2007

Podcaster: stlocds

Episode Description: Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity - Letter 156

It is so good to look at the Master who also endured all because He "loved us exceedingly", as Saint Paul says, then one thirsts to repay Him love for love! In Carmel we find many sacrifices of this kind, but they are so sweet when the heart is wholly taken by love. I will tell you what I do when I feel a little tired: I look at the Crucified, and when I see how He delivered Himself up for me, it seems to me that I can do no less for Him than spend myself, wear myself out in order to reply Him a little of what He has given me! In the morning at Holy Mass, let us share in His spirit of sacrifice, we ought to be like Him. Then, after that, let us remain in Him during the day. Then, if we are faithful in living His life, if we identify ourselves with all the movements of he soul of the Crucified, quite simply, we no longer need to fear our weaknesses, for He will be our strength, and who can snatch us away from Him? I believe that He is very happy and that our sacrifices must console His Heart very much."

 Letter 156 to Madame Angles , February 15, 1903 , Elizabeth of the Trinity �" Carmelite, I Have Found God, Complete Works Volume II Letters from Carmel Translated by Anne England Nash . ICS Publications 1995 Edition realized, presented, annotated by Conrad De Meester, Carmelite. Copyright by Washington Province of Discalced Carmelites, Inc. 1995 (page 92)