O my God, Trinity whom I adore,
let me entirely forget myself that I may abide in you, still and
peaceful as if my soul were already in eternity; let nothing disturb
my peace nor separate me from you, O my unchanging God, but that
each moment may take me further into the depths of your mystery !
Pacify my soul! Make it your heaven, your beloved home and place of
your repose; let me never leave you there alone, but may I be ever
attentive, ever alert in my faith, ever adoring and all given up to
your creative action.
O my beloved Christ,
crucified for love, would that I might be for you a spouse of your
heart! I would anoint you with glory, I would love you - even unto
death! Yet I sense my frailty and ask you to adorn me with yourself;
identify my soul with all the movements of your soul, submerge me,
overwhelm. me, substitute yourself in me that my life may become but a
reflection of your life. Come into me as Adorer, Redeemer and Savior.
O Eternal Word, Word of my God,
would that I might spend my life listening to you, would that I
might be fully receptive to learn all from you; in all darkness, all
loneliness, all weakness, may I ever keep my eyes fixed on you and
abide under your great light; O my Beloved Star, fascinate me so that
I may never be able to leave your radiance.
O Consuming Fire, Spirit of Love,
descend into my soul and make all in me as an incarnation of the
Word, that I may be to him a super-added humanity wherein he renews
his mystery; and you O Father, bestow yourself and bend down to your
little creature, seeing in her only your beloved Son in whom you are
well pleased.
O my `Three',
my All, my Beatitude, infinite Solitude, Immensity in whom I lose
myself, I give myself to you as a prey to be consumed; enclose
yourself in me that I may be absorbed in you so as to contemplate in
your light the abyss of your Splendor !
by Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity, OCD
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