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Follow-up: When the Saints Want to Give Up

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Benjamin Embley

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This is simply a follow-up to add Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity to a list of saints with clear quotes about what seems like wanting to give up; she writes to a priest,

If you only knew how sometimes I feel so homesick for heaven; I want so much to be there, near Him. It would make me very happy if He were to take me, even before I entered Carmel, for Carmel in heaven is even better… When I tell Mother Prioress how I feel, she says I am lazy…

But she’s not lazy! When the saints want to give up, it means exactly the opposite. It means that only God’s will matters and that love is everything, whether here below or in heaven, wherever God will have us situated to be doing good on earth.

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With backgrounds in engineering (BSc PhD) and philosophy (MA), Ben has lived and worked in England, France, and Thailand and is now back home as a settler in the unceded traditional territory of the Wabanaki peoples in Canada. He is a Laudato Si’ Animator and currently studying an MTS Peace & Justice in Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.

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