Tuesday, August 2 : Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity

“And they fall down and worship Him and they cast down their crowns before the throne, saying, Worthy are you, 0 Lord, to receive glory and honor and power” (Rev 4:10 f.) How can I imitate in the heaven of my soul this unceasing occupation of the blessed in the Heaven of glory? How can I sustain this uninterrupted praise and adoration? Saint Paul gives me light on this when he writes to his followers his wish that “the Father would strengthen them inwardly with power through His Spirit so that Christ would dwell through faith in their hearts, and so that they would be rooted and grounded in love” (cf. Eph 3:16 f.) To be rooted and grounded in love: such, it seems to me, is the condition for worthily fulfilling its work as “praise of glory” (Eph 1:6.12.14). The soul that penetrates and dwells in these “depths of God” (…) and thus does everything “in Him, with Him, by Him and for Him” (…) , this soul, by each of its movements, it aspirations, as well as by each of its acts, however ordinary they may be, “is rooted” more deeply in Him whom it loves. Everything within it pays homage to the thrice-holy God: it is so to speak a perpetual Sanctus, an unceasing praise of glory ! “They fall down and adore, they cast down their crowns.” First of all the soul should “fall down,” should plunge into the abyss of its nothingness, sinking so deeply into it that (…) it finds true, unchanging, and perfect peace which no one can disturb, for it has plunged so low that no one will look for it there. Then it can adore.
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