These are words that Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity (feast day November 8th) wrote as words of Our Lord to her…Lets read the message as if Jesus is speaking to us:

“…. Let yourself be loved more than these … without fearing that any obstacle will be a hindrance to it, for I am free to pour out My love on whom I wish! ‘Let yourself be loved more than these’ is your vocation. It is in being faithful to it that you will make Me happy for you will magnify the power of My love.”

Elizabeth comments:  “This love can rebuild what you have destroyed. Let yourself be loved more than these…. I bequeath to you this vocation …. THE PRAISE OF GLORY OF THE HOLY TRINITY….Let yourself be loved more than these: it is in that way that your Master wills for you to be a praise of glory! He rejoices to build up in you by His love and for His glory, and it is He alone who wants to work in you, even though you will have done nothing to attract this grace except that which a creature can do: works of sin and misery…He loves you like that….He will do everything in you. He will go to the end: for when a soul is loved by Him to this extent, in this way, loved by an unchanging and creative love, a free love which transforms as it pleases Him, oh, how far this soul will go! …. the fidelity that the Master asks of you is to remain in communion with Love, flow into, be rooted in this Love …. You will never be commonplace if you are vigilant in love!

But in the hours when you feel only oppression and lassitude, you will please Him even more if you faithfully believe that He is still working, that He is loving you just the same, and even more: because His love is free and that is how He wants to be magnified in you; and you will let yourself be loved more than these…. You are called … to magnify the power of His Love. Believe … and read these lines as if coming from Him.”

Elizabeth then quotes St. Angela di Foligno whose words are given as spoken by Jesus: “Oh! I love you, I love you more than anyone else in this valley….It is I who come, and I bring you unknown joy….I will enter into the depths of your being…. Love Me! All your life will please Me, provided that you love Me!…I will do great things in you; I will be made known in you, glorified, and praised in you!…”

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“O my God, teach me the secret of the silence which reaches unto interior silence.” 

“I have often had this experience: when I pour myself out on creatures and waste my time in long, useless conversations, my spirit becomes dry, dissipated and empty; and then, if I want to be recollected in prayer, I am unable to silence that little world of impressions, talk, imaginings, and idle thoughts which continually brings me back to creatures.” 

“O Lord, I know that You want greater fidelity to silence and more care to avoid spending myself on creatures. Yes, O God, I will be silent with creatures so that I can hear Your voice which speaks in silence.” 

“But whenever I dally with my ‘self’, preoccupied with my sensitiveness; when I pursue useless trains of thought or any sort of useless desire, I am wasting my strength, and my soul is not perfectly ordered toward You, O Lord. My lyre is not in tune, and when You, my divine Master, strike it, You cannot bring forth the divine harmonies. It is still to human and there is discord.” 

+Bl. Elizabeth of the Trinity OCD

Help me, O Lord, to attain this beautiful interior unity which unites all my faculties in silence in order to concentrate them on You, which makes my soul attentive to every one of Your words, capable of perceiving the slightest inspiration and motion of the Holy Spirit. 

+Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene OCD

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