Source: SISTER ELIZABETH OF THE TRINITY COMPLETE WORKS. Trans. Manuel Ordonez Villarroel, Monte Carmelo, Burgos 2004.
Dejate Amar
[The last days of October 1906]
Dejate Amar
[The last days of October 1906]
-Let also this treatise is a love-letter. A kind of letter will that Sister Elizabeth wrote to her prioress, Mother Germaine, during the last days of his life. He did it slowly, as it allowed her physical weakness. At the express wish of Sister Elizabeth, Mother Germaine had to read it before his coffin. Many times read later in the solitude of his cell! According to the tradition of the Caramel of Lisieux, often spoke of this letter, but do not let her read to anyone. Sor Isabel
handed in an envelope, made by herself. On the front was entitled: "Secrets to our Reverend Mother", was behind sealed with red wax. She wrote laboriously, using two sheets of graph paper which turned on two previous. And he wrote in ink, curious and very significant detail: the letters and notes from the last time in his life he wrote them in pencil, those directed at Ia prioress wrote them in ink.
This letter was in the drawer Mother Germaine table. She was found there after his death. The top is yellow by the action of time.
could say it is a formal letter. Written by someone who is deeply aware that he is writing at a very "serious and solemn" of his life-a Ias gates of eternity, and that can not "waste time." Moreover, a letter written to tell her prioress "what God, in hours of deep meditation and unifying treatment has made him understand." In doing so, the humble Sister Isabel feels "a spokesman for God." Perhaps
prioress had been entrusted, or maybe Sister Elizabeth had realized-his fears of not knowing good guide your community, or their internal concerns to the question Jesus asked Peter, "Simon, do you love me more than these?" (Jn 21.15) and now makes her. Sor Isabel opens another path to the answer: what matters is not whether you love him, but let yourself be loved by Him, in love, the protagonist is not you, but Jesus. Let love, let love, let love, he repeats. Let him love you. Because "81 more than he loves them."
And let me also love a bit from the sky. You have been my mother on earth and even a priest, let me be to you from the sky, its. dear mother and her priest.
Let
love. Sea-and land-in an extension of what you taught me to be me: a praise of glory to God who dwells in the depths of you.
And do not worry: He will do everything in you. "
handed in an envelope, made by herself. On the front was entitled: "Secrets to our Reverend Mother", was behind sealed with red wax. She wrote laboriously, using two sheets of graph paper which turned on two previous. And he wrote in ink, curious and very significant detail: the letters and notes from the last time in his life he wrote them in pencil, those directed at Ia prioress wrote them in ink.
This letter was in the drawer Mother Germaine table. She was found there after his death. The top is yellow by the action of time.
could say it is a formal letter. Written by someone who is deeply aware that he is writing at a very "serious and solemn" of his life-a Ias gates of eternity, and that can not "waste time." Moreover, a letter written to tell her prioress "what God, in hours of deep meditation and unifying treatment has made him understand." In doing so, the humble Sister Isabel feels "a spokesman for God." Perhaps
prioress had been entrusted, or maybe Sister Elizabeth had realized-his fears of not knowing good guide your community, or their internal concerns to the question Jesus asked Peter, "Simon, do you love me more than these?" (Jn 21.15) and now makes her. Sor Isabel opens another path to the answer: what matters is not whether you love him, but let yourself be loved by Him, in love, the protagonist is not you, but Jesus. Let love, let love, let love, he repeats. Let him love you. Because "81 more than he loves them."
And let me also love a bit from the sky. You have been my mother on earth and even a priest, let me be to you from the sky, its. dear mother and her priest.
Let
love. Sea-and land-in an extension of what you taught me to be me: a praise of glory to God who dwells in the depths of you.
And do not worry: He will do everything in you. "
A Mother Prioress Germaine de Jesus
community
(Other edition: 301 Mount Caramel Charter, 3rd Edic.)
community
(Other edition: 301 Mount Caramel Charter, 3rd Edic.)
JM
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1. Dear mother, my priest santo2:
time you read this, your little praise and glory will not sing on this earth, but live in the vast home of love. You may, therefore, believe and listen as if "the spokesman" of God.
Dear Mother, I would tell you everything you have been to me. But the hour is so serious, solemn.., I do not want to waste time saying things that I think the dwarf if he wanted to express in words.
What will make your daughter is revealing what he feels, or, to speak more truth: that their God, in times of deep meditation and unifying treatment has made him understand
1. Dear mother, my priest santo2:
time you read this, your little praise and glory will not sing on this earth, but live in the vast home of love. You may, therefore, believe and listen as if "the spokesman" of God.
Dear Mother, I would tell you everything you have been to me. But the hour is so serious, solemn.., I do not want to waste time saying things that I think the dwarf if he wanted to express in words.
What will make your daughter is revealing what he feels, or, to speak more truth: that their God, in times of deep meditation and unifying treatment has made him understand
2. "The Lord loves her greatly." 3 The love with that special love that the Master was here on earth to some people and that was that high. He did not say how Peter: "Do you love me more than these?" [Jn 21.15]. Mother, listen to what you are told: "Let love more than these!" 4. That is, without fear that some obstacle may prevent it, because I am free to pour my love on whom I please. Let
love more than these ": this is your calling. Being faithful to her, make me happy, as well exalt the power of my love. And that love can redo what you've undone. "Let love more than these."
love more than these ": this is your calling. Being faithful to her, make me happy, as well exalt the power of my love. And that love can redo what you've undone. "Let love more than these."
3. If you know, dearest Mother, what evi-dence perceive God's plans on his soul ... It presented me with great clarity, and I understand also that in heaven I shall use my time a priest on his soul. Love is who I associated with the work that he performed on you ... What a great Mother, and how adorable is this work by God! And how easy for you! And that is precisely what makes it more luminous.
Mother, let love more than others. That explains it all and keeps the soul be surprised ...
Mother, let love more than others. That explains it all and keeps the soul be surprised ...
4. Its small host, if you let them, will the sky ethyl depths of his soul will keep you in communion with the love and believing in love, and that is the sign that dwell in you. In what intimacy we live!
dear Mother, that your life is spent in Heaven, where I sing on your behalf the eternal Sanctus. I do not do anything without you before the throne of God, you know very well that I took his mark and that some of you have appeared with her daughter in the face of God. I ask you, too, has allowed me, to do nothing without me.
will come to live in you, and then I'll be your little mother, will instruct you, that my beatific vision will be of benefit to you to join her and for you too live the life of the blessed ...
dear Mother, that your life is spent in Heaven, where I sing on your behalf the eternal Sanctus. I do not do anything without you before the throne of God, you know very well that I took his mark and that some of you have appeared with her daughter in the face of God. I ask you, too, has allowed me, to do nothing without me.
will come to live in you, and then I'll be your little mother, will instruct you, that my beatific vision will be of benefit to you to join her and for you too live the life of the blessed ...
5. Beloved Mother, Mother predestined for me since all the eternidad5 Leaving, I lay that was my vocation within the Church militant and that I will forward steadily in the Church triumphant be "Praise of glory of the Holy Trinity 6.
Mother, "let love more than these." So his teacher wants you to be praise of glory. He is happy to build you, through His love for His glory. And he wants to do it alone, but you do not do anything to deserve this grace, unless what you do the creature works of sin and misery ... He loves that. He loves "more than these." He will do everything in you and come to the end. For when a soul He loves to that point and so, when the housekeeper with an unchanging love and creator, free love transforms everything according to his pleasure, then that soul will fly high!
Mother, "let love more than these." So his teacher wants you to be praise of glory. He is happy to build you, through His love for His glory. And he wants to do it alone, but you do not do anything to deserve this grace, unless what you do the creature works of sin and misery ... He loves that. He loves "more than these." He will do everything in you and come to the end. For when a soul He loves to that point and so, when the housekeeper with an unchanging love and creator, free love transforms everything according to his pleasure, then that soul will fly high!
6. Mother, fidelity to the Master is required to live in communion with Love, to disappear and be rooted in the Love that you seal your soul with the seal of his power and greatness.
You will never be a lot of warning if you live to Love And in the hours when all I feel is depression and fatigue, he still continue pleasing if it remains faithful to believe that he is acting, that he loves her despite everything and even more, because their love is free and is as (as you want be exalted in you. And then you will love "more than these."
That is, I think, what they mean those words ... Living in the depths of his soul! M (Master makes me understand very clearly that there wants to do wonders. God has called to pay tribute to the simplicity of the Divine and to exalt the power of his love
creates its "spokesman" and read these lines as coming EI.
Notes:
1 Sister Elizabeth of the Trinity repeated ad nauseam in Ias Ios letters written during last months of his life that his Mother Prioress, Mother Germaine, the city as a true mother and not separated the head of your bed. In this letter he wrote just days before he died, I say again qua no words to thank you for everything you owe. Mother speaks
Germana born January 29, 1870 in Dijon. Belonged to a noble and distinguished family. Entered the Caramel of Dijon on 15 October 1892. He received the habit on April 6, 1893 and made his religious profession on September 24, 1894. It was Sub-Prior of the community when he joined Sister Elizabeth of the Trinity, and served simultaneously charges Prioress and Novice Mistress from October 1901 until 1907. He died suddenly after Communion, 30 November 1934. There is talk left alone in the choir, giving thanks, and, noting the community that did not return to his cell, went looking and found unconscious. He could not get it back. Speak suffered a stroke. Nobody
as she sensed the excellent qualities he was endowed with Sister Elizabeth. It was a great religious and mother, said his favorite daughter. It was a soul of prayer and contemplation, a lover of interior silence and recollection external faithful warder of regular observance.
possessed a perfect balance of powers. It was a lucid intelligence, his criteria were safe, had a heart endowed with strength and tenderness at a time. All these gifts of grace and nature made it a superior Ideal.
This letter, written less than two weeks before his death, is a testament, a short treatise, which, following the approach of Conrad de Meester, we published here, including their spiritual treatises, under the title Let love.
You will never be a lot of warning if you live to Love And in the hours when all I feel is depression and fatigue, he still continue pleasing if it remains faithful to believe that he is acting, that he loves her despite everything and even more, because their love is free and is as (as you want be exalted in you. And then you will love "more than these."
That is, I think, what they mean those words ... Living in the depths of his soul! M (Master makes me understand very clearly that there wants to do wonders. God has called to pay tribute to the simplicity of the Divine and to exalt the power of his love
creates its "spokesman" and read these lines as coming EI.
Notes:
1 Sister Elizabeth of the Trinity repeated ad nauseam in Ias Ios letters written during last months of his life that his Mother Prioress, Mother Germaine, the city as a true mother and not separated the head of your bed. In this letter he wrote just days before he died, I say again qua no words to thank you for everything you owe. Mother speaks
Germana born January 29, 1870 in Dijon. Belonged to a noble and distinguished family. Entered the Caramel of Dijon on 15 October 1892. He received the habit on April 6, 1893 and made his religious profession on September 24, 1894. It was Sub-Prior of the community when he joined Sister Elizabeth of the Trinity, and served simultaneously charges Prioress and Novice Mistress from October 1901 until 1907. He died suddenly after Communion, 30 November 1934. There is talk left alone in the choir, giving thanks, and, noting the community that did not return to his cell, went looking and found unconscious. He could not get it back. Speak suffered a stroke. Nobody
as she sensed the excellent qualities he was endowed with Sister Elizabeth. It was a great religious and mother, said his favorite daughter. It was a soul of prayer and contemplation, a lover of interior silence and recollection external faithful warder of regular observance.
possessed a perfect balance of powers. It was a lucid intelligence, his criteria were safe, had a heart endowed with strength and tenderness at a time. All these gifts of grace and nature made it a superior Ideal.
This letter, written less than two weeks before his death, is a testament, a short treatise, which, following the approach of Conrad de Meester, we published here, including their spiritual treatises, under the title Let love.
2 the end of his life, and Sister Elizabeth ami liked to call a priest. His Mother Prioress. it had offered to God to receive their ballots on the day of the profession and Sister Isabel wants the offer back to the Lord to leave this world.
3 Sister Elizabeth writes these words with extra thick; then write you word. leaves. with slightly larger letters. Therefore, we will put all in bold.
4 The words of Sister Isabel responds to a common state of mind Mother Germaine. I was obsessed by the idea that it had been unfaithful to his calling by not responding promptly to the divine call. Sister Isabel wants to reassure and instill peace and serenity.
5 intonation is an expression of sublime, which was realized during the time that Sister Elizabeth lived in the Caramel of Dijon. Mother Germaine was chosen few God to guide and direct Favored soul to it. It was a Mother of peace, who managed to pacify the spirit of his daughter in Ias suffered crisis of scruples. It was an ocean of peace for her in the long ordeal of his illness that destroyed his body relentlessly. Mother Germana not separated during his sick bed while Sister Isabel needed. In the hour of his agony, lovingly held his hand, showing that human gesture that he was not alone in the supreme moment of his life. Germana
Mother Sister Elizabeth owes her also being a praise of glory of the Sant (sima Trinidad. She always reminded Sister Elizabeth eagerly mother, calling her daughter ml. Memories wrote on his knees, Ias collecting virtues and exemplary life of Sister Isabel. It was a tribute to the Mother of choice for all eternity edged tribute to his daughter in this world.
Mother Sister Elizabeth owes her also being a praise of glory of the Sant (sima Trinidad. She always reminded Sister Elizabeth eagerly mother, calling her daughter ml. Memories wrote on his knees, Ias collecting virtues and exemplary life of Sister Isabel. It was a tribute to the Mother of choice for all eternity edged tribute to his daughter in this world.
6 Cf Eph 1.12. Thicker written characters.
Italiano: B. Elisabetta della Trinità . OPERATE. Edizione di Italian priest Luigi Borriello. Paoline, Milano 1993.
Lasciati Amare *
(fine ottobre 1906)
Lasciati Amare *
(fine ottobre 1906)
JMJT
1 .- Madre Mia face, my holy priest
when he reads these lines, its small, 'Praise of Glory will not sing more on the ground, but Firebox dwell in the immense love, can finally believe and play it as if it were "the spokesman" of the good God. Mother dear, I wanted to tell you everything that was for me. But the hour is so severe, so solemn.:, I do not want to linger to tell you things you believe diminish volendole put into words. What I want to make her daughter tell her what to say or feel better, what makes you understand his God in the hours of deep meditation, contact unifying.
2 .- "She is extraordinarily popular," loved to love preference that the Master had for some and brought them so high. He did not say how to Peter, "Do you love me more than these?" '. Mother, hear what he says: "Let love more than these, that is, without fear that any obstacle to come between us, because I am free to pass on my love to whoever I want! Let love more than these, this is your vocation, and, remaining faithful to it, you make me happy, why glorify the power of my love. This love will compensate for your shortcomings: Let love more than these. "
3. Dearest mother, if she knew with certainty that I understand the plan of God on his soul seems to me in an immense light, and I understand that there shall be making my turn to work on his priestly soul. And the love that I associated to its action in her: O Mother, how big, lovable by God! How easy for her and that is what makes it so bright! Mother, is loved more than others, which explains everything to delight the soul and prevents ...
4. If you let him, his little host will spend his heaven in the depths of her soul: she will keep her together with love, thinking of Love, this will be the sign of her in her home. Oh, how we will live privacy! Mother dear, that his life takes place in heaven, where sing in the south as the eternal Sanctus: I do not do anything without her before the throne of God, she knows that I carry its mark and that something she has appeared with his daughter before the face of God too please do not do anything without me, she allowed me: I will come to live in and this time she'll be his little Mother: I instruct, Ia because my vision is to help and she can live and participate the life of the blessed!
6. Mother, the loyalty that the Master is asked to be in communion with Love, is to go in her, radicarlas in this love that wants to mark his soul with the seal of his power, his greatness. You will never be trivial if they remain vigilant in Love? Even in the hours when only feel the crushing weight and killing sari accepted by God if it is steadfast in believing that he continues to operate, that he loves her even then and even more so, because his love is free, and is so he wants to glorify himself in her, and she will leave love "more than others." This, I believe, the meaning of his words ... Alive in the bottom of the his soul! My teacher makes me brightly understand that that's where I want to create lovely things: she is called to pay homage to the simplicity of the divine and to exalt the power of his love. Believes in the "spokesman" and reads these lines as sent by him.
7. "Oh, I love you, I love you more than any other person who is in this valley! ...
am "I" that I come and I'll take my joy unknown ... I penetrate deep within you.
O my wife! I stopped and rested in you, now stop and rest in me ...
Love me! All your life I will like the fact you love me! ... I will do great things in you, I will be known to you, glorified in you, magnified in you !...».
* --------- L 337 is addressed to the mother of Jesus Germana
1. Jn 21:15.
2. See Eph 1:12.
3. See Col 2:7.
4. Eph 1.11.
5. See Eph 3:17
6. See Angela of Foligno, oc "pp. 59-61, cf. The Book of Blessed Angela of Foligno, Ed Pauline, Cinisello Balsamo (MI) 1991, pp. 60ss.
1 .- Madre Mia face, my holy priest
when he reads these lines, its small, 'Praise of Glory will not sing more on the ground, but Firebox dwell in the immense love, can finally believe and play it as if it were "the spokesman" of the good God. Mother dear, I wanted to tell you everything that was for me. But the hour is so severe, so solemn.:, I do not want to linger to tell you things you believe diminish volendole put into words. What I want to make her daughter tell her what to say or feel better, what makes you understand his God in the hours of deep meditation, contact unifying.
2 .- "She is extraordinarily popular," loved to love preference that the Master had for some and brought them so high. He did not say how to Peter, "Do you love me more than these?" '. Mother, hear what he says: "Let love more than these, that is, without fear that any obstacle to come between us, because I am free to pass on my love to whoever I want! Let love more than these, this is your vocation, and, remaining faithful to it, you make me happy, why glorify the power of my love. This love will compensate for your shortcomings: Let love more than these. "
3. Dearest mother, if she knew with certainty that I understand the plan of God on his soul seems to me in an immense light, and I understand that there shall be making my turn to work on his priestly soul. And the love that I associated to its action in her: O Mother, how big, lovable by God! How easy for her and that is what makes it so bright! Mother, is loved more than others, which explains everything to delight the soul and prevents ...
4. If you let him, his little host will spend his heaven in the depths of her soul: she will keep her together with love, thinking of Love, this will be the sign of her in her home. Oh, how we will live privacy! Mother dear, that his life takes place in heaven, where sing in the south as the eternal Sanctus: I do not do anything without her before the throne of God, she knows that I carry its mark and that something she has appeared with his daughter before the face of God too please do not do anything without me, she allowed me: I will come to live in and this time she'll be his little Mother: I instruct, Ia because my vision is to help and she can live and participate the life of the blessed!
5. Revered Mother, Mother consecrated eternity for me, starting the leave that was my vocation within the Church militant, and now will fulfill unceasingly in the Church. triumphantly: "Praise to the glory of the Holy Trinity" (2). Mother 'let love more than these' so that his master wants her to be praise and glory! He rejoices in being able to build (3) at her with his love and his glory, and he alone wants to work (4), even if she had not done anything to attract this grace, if not what is proper to creatures: the works of sin and misery ... He loves it so, he loves her "more than these," he will do everything in her, he will go to the end: be-cause when a soul is loved by him at this point, in this form, a loved one unchanging love and creator of a free love that turns as he likes, oh, what stands soul!
6. Mother, the loyalty that the Master is asked to be in communion with Love, is to go in her, radicarlas in this love that wants to mark his soul with the seal of his power, his greatness. You will never be trivial if they remain vigilant in Love? Even in the hours when only feel the crushing weight and killing sari accepted by God if it is steadfast in believing that he continues to operate, that he loves her even then and even more so, because his love is free, and is so he wants to glorify himself in her, and she will leave love "more than others." This, I believe, the meaning of his words ... Alive in the bottom of the his soul! My teacher makes me brightly understand that that's where I want to create lovely things: she is called to pay homage to the simplicity of the divine and to exalt the power of his love. Believes in the "spokesman" and reads these lines as sent by him.
[Elizabeth reinforces his idea with a long quote of Blessed Angela of Foligno. These are words spoken by Jesus or the Holy Spirit to the same blessed] (6).
7. "Oh, I love you, I love you more than any other person who is in this valley! ...
am "I" that I come and I'll take my joy unknown ... I penetrate deep within you.
O my wife! I stopped and rested in you, now stop and rest in me ...
Love me! All your life I will like the fact you love me! ... I will do great things in you, I will be known to you, glorified in you, magnified in you !...».
* --------- L 337 is addressed to the mother of Jesus Germana
1. Jn 21:15.
2. See Eph 1:12.
3. See Col 2:7.
4. Eph 1.11.
5. See Eph 3:17
6. See Angela of Foligno, oc "pp. 59-61, cf. The Book of Blessed Angela of Foligno, Ed Pauline, Cinisello Balsamo (MI) 1991, pp. 60ss.
