It seems to me that the attitude of the Blessed Virgin during the months that passed between the Annunciation and the Nativity is the model of interior souls, of beings that God has chosen to live within, at the bottom of the abyss without bottom. In what peace, in what recollection Mary gave to and received from all things! How the most commonplace things were divinized by her! Because, through it all, the Blessed Virgin remained the adorer of the gift of God.
Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880–1906)