The servant of God, Elizabeth of the Trinity, was one of those
enlightened and heroic souls able to cling to one of these great
truths, which are both the simplest and the most important, and,
beneath the appearance of an ordinary life, to find therein the
secret of a very close union with God. This mystery of the
indwelling of the Blessed Trinity in the depths of her soul was the
great reality of her interior life. As she herself said: "The
Trinity there is our dwelling, our home: the father's house that we
must never leave .... It seems to me that I have found my heaven on
earth, for heaven is God and God is in my soul. On the day I
understood that, everything became clear to me. . . ." Obviously
the foundation of this supernatural life is the practice of the
theological virtues. Faith is the supernatural light through which
we receive the revelation of this divine world. Our hope, upheld by
the omnipotence of God, Whose hand is ever stretched out to help
us, enables us to tend surely toward eternal happiness. Charity
establishes us permanently in the friendship and fellowship of the
Divine Persons, according to the teaching of St. John the
Evangelist: "God is charity: and he that abideth in charity,
abideth in God, and God in him" (1 John IV, 16). In essence, there
is but the one supernatural life; it begins on earth with our
Baptism and it will reach its full development in heaven with the
vision of God face to face. Faith is the root of all this new
activity. It is "the substance," the principle, the germ "of things
hoped for," things which we shall one day behold unveiled. The
least light of faith is thus infinitely superior to the natural
intuitions of the greatest genius and the highest angel. It belongs
to the same essentially supernatural order as the beatific vision.
Living faith, enlightened by the gifts of understanding and wisdom,
is, accordingly, the only light proportionate to this life of
intimate communion with the Divine Persons. Hence, above all else,
Sister Elizabeth of the Trinity stands before us as a soul of
faith, living in ever more perfect communion with the invisible
world while, under the hand of God, sense and spirit were being
purified through the events of her daily life. Like a true daughter
of St. John of the Cross, she was aware of the primary importance
of faith in the supernatural life. "In order to draw near to God,"
she wrote, "we must believe. Faith is the substance of things hoped
for, and the evidence of things that appear not. St. John of tilt
Cross says that it serves us as feet to go to God, that it is
possess Him in an obscure manner. It alone can give us real light
upon Him Whom we love; our soul should choose it as the means of
reaching the blessed union. . . ." Without neglecting the practice
of the moral virtues, she was seen to apply herself more and more
to the interior activity of the theological virtues. "My only
practice is to enter into myself and lose myself in Those Who are
there."
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
