Praying the Rosary with Elisabeth
The Annunciation | The Visitation | ||||
Mother of the Word, Oh tell me your mystery. After the moment of the Incarnation, Tell me how you spent your life buried in adoration. Poem 88 |
It seems to me that the attitude of the Virgin during the months which elapsed between the Annunciation and the Nativity is the model for interior souls: those whom God has chosen to live within, in the depths of the bottomless abyss. Heaven in Faith 40 |
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The Birth of Jesus | The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple | ||||
In the guise of an infant, we can contemplate the Invisible: O, Mystery Incomprehensible, Jesus the Strong One, the Omnipotent, The hidden God, the Inaccessible, Became for us an infant. Poem 96 |
At each feast of Mary, I renew my consecration to this good Mother. Today, thus, I entrusted myself to her and once again, I threw myself into her arms... May I always comport myself worthy of my Beloved Spouse. Diary 2 |
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The Finding of Jesus in the Temple | |||||
With your Son, Beloved Mother, I appeal I want to lead A life concealed. Poem 2 |
The Baptism | The Wedding at Cana | ||||
I understood the supreme lesson Of my Master and Lord, “who emptied Himself By taking the form of a slave”. Poem 96 |
The Gospel says “there was a wedding at Cana and the Mother of Jesus was there”, and this was the occasion when at the request of the Virgin, Our Lord performed His first miracle. This is recounted to show us how interested God is in all our needs, even the most material ones. So let us have confidence in His love!Letter 246 |
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The Proclamation of the Kingdom | The Transfiguration | ||||
May the reign of love then be fully established in your interior kingdom, and may the weight of that love draw you to complete self-forgetfulness, to that mystical death of which the Apostle spoke when he exclaimed: “I live no longer I, but Jesus Christ lives in me”.Letter 264 |
O Father, bend lovingly over Your poor little creature; “cover her with Your shadow”, seeing in her only the “beloved in whom You are well pleased”.Notes 15 |
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The institution of the Eucharist | |||||
It seems to me that nothing better expresses the love in God’s Heart than the Eucharist: it is union, consummation, He in us, we in Him, and isn’t that Heaven on earth? Letter 165 |
The Agony of Jesus | The Scourging at the Pillar | ||||
If, despite everything, emptiness and sadness overwhelm you, unite this agony with that of the Master in the Garden of Olives, when He said to the Father: “If it is possible, let this cup pass me by”. Letter 249 |
O my Jesus, to suffer all, to endure all! Oh keep me; my heart is there close to Yours. Diary 37 |
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The Crowning with Thorns | The Carrying of the Cross | ||||
Then when the hour of humiliation, of annihilation comes, she will recall this little phrase, “but Jesus was silent”, and she will be silent, “keeping all her strength for the Lord, this strength which “we draw from silence”. Last Retreat 39 |
To strip off self, to die to self, to lose sight of self. It seems to me the Master meant this when He said: “If anyone wants to follow Me, let him take up his cross and deny himself”. Last Retreat 24 |
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The Crucifixion | |||||
Let us remain at the foot of the cross where our Beloved One is calling us, and when we cannot pray anymore, Oh! let us gaze at Him! Letter 55 |
The Resurrection | The Ascension | ||||
Sunday, we will rise with Him. Oh this beautiful feast of Easter, it seems to me that we should go to celebrate it above, in our Carmel of Heaven; but when He wishes, life or death, it does not matter, let us love! Letter 42 |
When you think that Heaven is the Father’s House, where He waits for us as for beloved children returning home after a time of exile, and that He makes Himself our traveling companion to lead us there. Letter 295 |
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The Descent of the Holy Spirit | The Assumption | ||||
With your pure and burning flames, Holy Spirit, to enkindle my soul; Consume it with divine love, O you whom I invoke each day. Poem 54 |
I leave with the Blessed Virgin on the eve of her Assumption to prepare myself for eternal life...Beatitude attracts me more and more; between my Master and me that is all we talk about, and His whole work is to prepare me for eternal life.Letter 306 |
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The Coronation | |||||
I weep for joy when I think that this wholly serene, wholly luminous Creature is my Mother and I delight in her beauty like a child who loves its mother; I feel strongly drawn to her, I’ve made her Queen and Guardian of my heaven, and of yours, for I do everything for both of us... Letter 298 |