The soul needs silence in order to adore Him.
Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880–1906)
The Need for Silence
1–2 minutes
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Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity, perhps more than most of her contemporaries understood the need of silence within the soul to adore the Indwelling Trinity. Both in the East among monks like St. Maximos the Confessor and St. Gregory Palamas and the majority of the fathers of the Desert and in the West, especially among the Discalced Carmelites, the Cistercians of the Strict Observence and the Carthusians there was a lived experience (knowledge) of the Silence, which is the language of Love within the Trinity and to which we are called, if we are willing to say “Yes” to the invitation of our God-Trinity. This is a silence of intimacy and Love that goes beyond articulation or anything we can really understand and yet to which we are called to strive to articulate and to understand through an active life of love lived in relationship with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Elizabeth especially, along with St. Paul and St. John of the Cross seemed to understand this in a way that gave her life and which she needed to be who she is, in reltionship to the Indwelling Trinity. We need this silence of adoration as well, it is essentiall and vital to who we are as members of the Mystical Body of Christ. Perhaps more than ever we need this silence and the fearlessness it calls for to benefit from it and to grow in and through it as members of the Triune Body of Christ.
Contemplative in the Mud 