Saturday, March 1 : Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity
“Your strength shall lie in silence” (cf.Is 30,15)…To keep one’s strength for the Lord is to unify one’s whole being by means of interior silence, to collect all one’s powers in order to “employ” them in “the one work of love,”· to have this “single eye” which allows the light of God to enlighten us (Mt 6,22). A soul that debates with its self, that is taken up with its feelings, and pursues useless thoughts6 and desires, scatters its forces, for it is not wholly directed toward God… It is still too human and discordant. The soul that still keeps something for self in its inner kingdom, whose powers are not “enclosed” in God, cannot be a perfect “praise of glory” (Eph 1,14); it is not fit to sing uninterruptedly this “canticum magnum”, the great canticle of which St. Paul speaks since unity does not reign in it. Instead of persevering in praise through everything in simplicity, it must continually adjust the strings of its instrument which are all a little out of tune. How indispensable this beautiful inner unity is for the soul that wants to live here below the life of the blessed, that is, of simple beings, of spirits. It seems to me the Master had that in mind when He spoke to Mary Magdalene of the “one thing necessary”. How well that great saint understood this! “The eye of her soul enlightened by faith recognized her God beneath the veil of His humanity; and in silence, in the unity of her powers, “She listened to what He told her”… Yes, she knew nothing but Him!
Roman Extraordinary (Tridentine) Daily Readings – rosary,team
