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Saint of the Month St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

by Carl Bunderson,catholicnewsagency.com,2016

Vatican City, Jun 21, 2016 / 03:03 am MT ().- Pope Francis has announced

the canonization date of Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity, a Carmelite nun of

the 20th century who will be formally recognized as a saint October 16. In

March, the Pope had acknowledged a miracle worked through the interces-

sion of Blessed Elizabeth, paving the way for her canonization. “The Lord

has chosen to answer her prayers for us…before she died, when she was

suffering with Addison's disease, she wrote that it would increase her joy in

heaven if people ask for her help,” said Dr. Anthony Lilles, academic dean

of St. John's Seminary in Camarillo. Lilles earned his doctorate in spiritual

theology at Rome's Angelicum writing a dissertation on Bl. Elizabeth of the

Trinity. “If her friends ask for her help it would increase her joy in heaven: so it increases Elizabeth's joy when

you ask her to pray for your needs,” he told CNA. "That's the first reason (to have devotion to her): the Church has

recognized the power of her intercession."

Bl. Elizabeth of the Trinity was born in France in 1880, and grew up in Dijon close to the city's Carmelite

monastery. Lilles recounted that when one time when Bl. Elizabeth visited the monastery when she was 17, “the

mother superior there said, 'I just received this circular letter about the death of Therese of Lisieux, and I want you

to read it.' That circular letter would later become the Story of a Soul; in fact, what she was given was really the

first edition of Story of a Soul.”

“Elizabeth read it and she was inclined towards contemplative prayer; she was a very pious person who

worked with troubled youth and catechized them, but when she read Story of a Soul she knew she needed to be-

come a Carmelite: it was a lightning moment in her life, where everything kind of crystallized and she understood

how to respond to what God was doing in her heart.”

Elizabeth then told her mother she wanted to enter the Carmel, but she replied that she couldn't enter until

she was 21, “which was good for the local Church,” Lilles explained, “because Elizabeth continued to work with

troubled youth throughout that time, and do a lot of other good work in the city of Dijon before she entered.” She

entered the Carmel in Dijon in 1901, and died there in 1906 – at the age of 26 – from Addison's disease.

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Elizabeth wrote several works while there, the best-known of which is her prayer “O My God, Trinity Whom I

Adore.” Also particularly notable are her “Heaven in Faith,” a retreat she wrote three months before her death for

her sister Guite; and the “Last Retreat,” her spiritual insights from the last annual retreat she was able to make.

Cardinal Albert Decourtray, who was Bishop of Dijon from 1974 to 1981, was cured of cancer through Bl. Eliza-

beth's intercession – a miracle that allowed her beatification in 1984. The healing acknowledged by Pope Francis

March 4 was that of Marie-Paul Stevens, a Belgian woman who had Sjögren's syndrome, a glandular disease. In

2002 Stevens “had asked Bl. Elizabeth to help her manage the extreme discomforts of the pathology she had, and

in thanksgiving, because she felt like she had received graces … she travelled to the Carmelite monastery just out-

side Dijon,” Lilles said. “And when she got to the monastery, she was completely healed.”

Lilles added that a second reason to have devotion to Bl. Elizabeth of the Trinity is because she died

“believing that she had a spiritual mission to help lead souls to a deeper encounter with Christ Jesus.” “You could

call it contemplative prayer, or even mystical prayer. She said her mission was to lead souls out of themselves and

into a great silence, where God could imprint himself in them, on their souls, so that they became more God-like.”

In prayer, he said, “we make space for (God) to transform us more fully into the image and likeness he intended us

to become, but which sin has marred. Contemplative prayer is a means towards this transformation, and Bl. Eliza-

beth of the Trinity believed before she died that her spiritual mission would be to help souls enter into that kind of

transformative, contemplative prayer, where they could become saints.”

During her time in the Carmel of Dijon, Bl. Elizabeth found encouragement from the writings of St.

Therese of Lisieux, particularly her “Offering to Merciful Love,” a prayer found in Story of a Soul, Lilles said:

“You find references to the Offering to Merciful Love throughout the writings of Bl. Elizabeth of the Trinity, it

was probably something she herself prayed often.”

“The second way that Elizabeth of the Trinity was influenced by Therese of Lisieux was a poem that St.

Therese wrote called 'Living by Love'; in this poem Therese celebrates how the love of Jesus is the heartbeat, the

deepest reality of her life, and because he lived to lay down his life for her, she wants to live to lay down her life

for human love, which as the poem goes on, means loving all whom he sends her way, without reserve and all the

way, giving people the generous love that we have received from Christ, sharing it with others.”

“That idea deeply, deeply influenced Elizabeth of the Trinity and in fact inspired her own way of life and

her own spiritual mission to help lead souls into mystical prayer,” Lilles reflected. “She understood that the way

she loved souls all the way was to help them find and encounter the Lord.”

“So, the spiritual missions of Therese of Lisieux and Elizabeth of the Trinity coincide: great theologians

like Hans Urs von Balthasar recognized that. And these spiritual missions have both greatly influenced the Church

in the 20th and early 21st centuries in very powerful ways.”

“I'm so glad that Elizabeth has been recognized for her part in building up the Church in the 20th century.”

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The Trinity: A Mystery for Eternity By The Catholic World Report.com

The apologist and novelist Dorothy Sayers dryly noted, in an essay titled “The Dogma is the Drama,” that for

many people, even some Christians, the doctrine of the Trinity is, “The Father incomprehensible, the Son incom-

prehensible, and the whole thing incomprehensible.” There are likely a few Catholics who would candidly admit,

“Well, the Church teaches that the Trinity is a mystery—and it’s certainly a mystery to me!”

In fact, the Catechism of the Catholic Church explains, “The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity is the central mys-

tery of Christian faith and life” (CCC 234). It goes on to explain that this great mystery is the most fundamental,

essential teaching in the “hierarchy of the truths of faith” and that it is a mystery of faith “in the strict sense”—it

cannot be known except it has been revealed by God (CCC 237). A theological mystery such as the Trinity is a

truth about God known only through divine revelation, not by reason or philosophy. It is like a well with no bot-

tom from which we can drink endlessly, our minds and souls never going away thirsty.

Belief in the Trinity—one God who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—is a distinctive mark of the Christian Faith.

The first few centuries of the Church were filled with controversies and careful definitions regarding the one na-

ture of God, the three Persons of the Trinity, and their relationship with each other. Yet the dogma of the Trinity

cannot be proven in the usual sense of “proven” and “proof.” But this does not mean that the dogma of the Trinity

is contrary to reason or that reason cannot be applied to understanding it to some degree (cf. CCC 154); it means

that the Triune reality of God is ultimately beyond human reasoning. As St. Augustine remarked, “If you under-

stood Him, it would not be God” (CCC 230).

Today’s readings do not use the term “Trinity,” of course, because it doesn’t appear in Scripture. But they are

some of the many texts the Church has looked to as either foreshadowing the reality of the Trinity or giving ex-

plicit witness to it. The reading from Proverbs is one of several Old Testament passages that describe the wisdom

of God, which is often referred to as a sort of personal being or reality. Some of this language is taken up in the

New Testament to refer to the Son, including St. Paul’s description of Christ as “the power of God and the wis-

dom of God” (1 Cor 1:24). Or, similarly, in a passage that bears a strong resemblance to today’s reading from

Proverbs, the “one Lord, Jesus Christ” is described as the one “through whom all things are and through whom we

exist” (1 Cor 8:6).

While the Old Testament contains hints and suggestions, the mystery of the Trinity was revealed with the Incarna-

tion—first at Jesus’ baptism in the Jordan River, and then in His teachings. Jesus spoke of the intimate commun-

ion between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, including in today’s reading from the Gospel of John. “Everything

that the Father has is mine,” Jesus tells the Apostles, “for this reason I told you that he”—the Holy Spirit—“will

taken from what is mine and declare it to you.” The Father sends forth the Son so that, as St. Paul wrote to the Ro-

mans, we might have peace with God, while the Holy Spirit pours out God’s love, all so we might be justified and

made right with God.

In his great work The Trinity, St. Augustine summed up the heart of the Church’s belief in the mystery of the Fa-

ther, Son, and Holy Spirit by simply stating, “If you see charity, you see the Trinity.” God is One and three Per-

sons; He offers His divine life and love to those who believe in Him (CCC 257). The Trinity is not just a mystery

to us, but also for us.

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Weekly Readings Monday, June 8th:

1KGS 17:1-6 PS 121:1BC-2,3-4,5-6,7-8 MT 5:1-12

Tuesday, June 9th:

1KGS 17:7-16 PS 4:2-3,4-5,7B-8 MT 5:13-16

Wednesday, June 10th:

1KGS 18:20-39 PS 16:1B-2AB,4,5AB&8,11 MT 5:17-19

Thursday, June 11th:

ACTS 11:21B-26;13:1-3 PS 98:2-3AB,3CD-4,5-6 MT 5:20-26

Friday, June 12th:

1KGS 19:9A,11-16 PS 27:7-8A,8B-9ABC,13-14 MT 5:27-32

Saturday, June 13th:

1KGS 19:19-21 PS 16:1B-2A&5,7-8,9-10 MT 5:33-37

Sunday, June 14th: Corpus Christi

DT 8:2-3,14B-16A DN 147:12-13,14-15,19-20 1COR 10:16-17 JN 6:51-58

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