Beginning to Pray: “The Last Retreat – Day 14 ” pt 2 – “My food…is to do the will of Him who sent Me.” From “Last Retreat Day 14” found in The Complete Works vol 1: 38. The Master was truth itself in this first oblation! His life was as it were but the consequence … Read more
Beginning to Pray: “The Last Retreat – Day 15 ” pt 1 -“The Virgin kept all these things in her heart” From “Last Retreat Day 15” found in The Complete Works vol 1: 40. After Jesus Christ, doubtless at the distance that there is between the Infinite and the finite, there is one who was also … Read more
Beginning to Pray: “The Last Retreat – Day 15 ” pt 2 -“This Queen of virgins is also Queen of martyrs” From “Last Retreat Day 15” found in The Complete Works vol 1: 41. This Queen of virgins is also Queen of martyrs; but again it was in her heart that the sword pierced, 247 … Read more
Beginning to Pray: “The Last Retreat – Day 16 ” pt 1 -“ My soul thirsts for the living God! ” From “Last Retreat Day 16” found in The Complete Works vol 1: 42. “As the thirsty doe longs for the springs of fresh water, so my soul longs for You, O God! My soul … Read more
Here’s an excerpt from Anthony’s posting:
Blessed Elisabeth of the Trinity is a witness to the primacy of contemplation in the life of the Church and the mystical wisdom contemplation releases into human history. This is the wisdom that understands how God is present in both the public square as well as in the intimacy of our hearts. Today, when the whole world needs this wisdom renewed, the Church celebrates her feast day and invites us to consider her powerful spiritual doctrine.
She wrote a famous prayer to the Holy Trinity that has helped many contemplatives recover devotion to the Divine Persons in their life of prayer. This work is cited to support the Catechism of the Catholic Church’s teaching on the Divine Works and the Trinitarian Missions. The teaching itself is that God calls every individual to a great and beautiful purpose, to become a dwelling place for His presence in the world:
The ultimate end of the divine economy is the entry of God’s creatures into the perfect unity of the Blessed Trinity. But even now we are called to be a dwelling for the Most Holy Trinity, ‘If a man loves me,’ says the Lord, ‘he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him’ (CCC 260).
Beginning to Pray with Dr. Anthony Lilles, STD Here are the various series on Prayer and Spirituality offered by Dr. Anthony Lilles and Discerning Hearts Heaven in Faith - St. Elizabeth of the Trinity The Last Retreat - St. Elizabeth of the Trinity The Letters of St. Elizabeth of the Trinity Way of Perfection - ... Read more
