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I have been on spring break with my children and was not posting this past week… We had a nice visit to a historic town in Southern Indiana — Praise God for SPRING!!!

“A Carmelite is a soul who has gazed on the Crucified, who has seen Him offering Himself to His Father as a Victim for souls and, recollecting herself in this great vision of the charity of Christ, has understood the passionate love of His soul, and has wanted to give herself as He did! … And on the mountain of Carmel, in silence, in solitude, in prayer that never ends, for it continues through everything, the Carmelite already lives as if in Heaven: “by God alone.” He dwells within her soul; more than that, the two of them are but one. So she hungers for silence that she may always listen, penetrate ever deeper into His Infinite Being. She is identified with Him who she loves, she finds Him everywhere, she sees Him shinning through all things! Is this not Heaven on earth!

Don’t ever leave Him, do everything beneath His divine gaze, and remain wholly joyful in His peace and love, making those around you happy!”

 Letter 133 to Germain de Gemeaux, August 7, 1902 , Elizabeth of the Trinity – Carmelite, I Have Found God, Complete Works Volume II Letters from Carmel Translated by Anne Englund Nash .ICS Publications 1995 Edition realized, presented, annotated by Conrad De Meester, Carmelite. Copyright by Washington Province of Discalced Carmelites, Inc. 1995 (page 61)