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I come to you by passing through the pierced Heart of the Mother of sorrows. Along with her, you have consummated your sacrifice, and I am begging her to pour out in your soul the calm, peace, and strength that always accompanied her during her cruel martyrdom.
One saint, speaking of the Master, said: “Where then did He dwell but in suffering?”[cf. St. Angela Foligno]. Any soul immersed in suffering, then, lives beside Him; she dwells with Jesus Christ in that immensity of suffering sung by the prophet [cf. Lam 1:12]; the dwelling place of those predestined, those whom the “Father has known and wishes to be conformed to His divine Son, the Crucified” [cf. Rom 8:29]; Saint Paul says that.
Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity
Letter 312 to Baroness d’Anthès (excerpt)
18 September 1906Note: The Carmelites had celebrated the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows only two days before, on 16th September 1906. The baroness was the mother of the deceased, Madame de Maizières. It was to the baroness’ grandniece Françoise de Sourdon that Elizabeth penned Letter 310, also known as the treatise on The Greatness of our Vocation.
Elizabeth of the Trinity, S 2003, The Complete Works of Elizabeth of the Trinity volume 2: Letters from Carmel, translated from the French by Nash, A, ICS Publications, Washington DC.
Featured image: This is a detail from the painting Mater Dolorosa and Christ of Sorrows by Simon Marmion (French, 1420-1489). The artwork was executed in oil on wood panel, ca. 1460. It comes from the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Strasbourg. Image credit: jean louis mazieres / Flickr (Some rights reserved)
https://carmelitequotes.blog/2024/09/17/sabeth-ltr312/
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