Let us free ourselves from despair

LET US TURN OURSELVES TOWARD PERSEVERANCE 


“Please take out the word despair from your choice language of Love. The more feeble you feel, the more difficult it is for you to shut out the world around you, the more it seems to you that the Master is not there, the more you must rejoice, because then you will be giving yourself, and is it not “better to give than to receive” 

(Acts, xx, 35) when one loves”. (Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity, Spiritual Writings).


Satan uses despair as well as doubt as powerful weapons. When one is in the grip of despair, one's faith weakens as one feels God has abandoned his people; we may even be led to doubt his very existence and question his Love.  Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity invites us to praise God in our prayers. Praise is a powerful means to fight despair. It leads us to enter into a dialogue with God, it sustains our faith through its valleys and it expresses our trust in God. 


May saint Elizabeth of the Trinity, herself the “glorious praise” of God, intercede on our behalf so we may live in praise and thanksgiving in all circumstances. 

Community prayer

Prayer to the Blessed Trinity

O my God, Trinity whom I adore, help me to forget myself entirely that I may be established in You as still and as peaceful as if my soul were already in eternity. May nothing trouble my peace or make me leave You, O my Unchanging One, but may each minute carry me further into the depths of Your Mystery. Give peace to my soul; make it Your heaven, Your beloved dwelling and Your resting place. May I never leave You there alone but be wholly present, my faith wholly vigilant, wholly adoring, and wholly surrendered to Your creative Action. O my beloved Christ, crucified by love, I wish to be a bride for Your Heart; I wish to cover You with glory; I wish to love You… even unto death! But I feel my weakness, and I ask You to “clothe me with Yourself,” to identify my soul with all the movements of Your Soul, to overwhelm me, to possess me, to substitute Yourself for me that my life may be but a radiance of Your Life. Come into me as Adorer, as Restorer, as Savior. O Eternal Word, Word of my God, I want to spend my life in listening to You, to become wholly teachable that I may learn all from You. Then, through all nights, all voids, all helplessness, I want to gaze on You always and remain in Your great light. O my beloved Star, so fascinate me that I may not withdraw from Your radiance. O consuming Fire, Spirit of Love, “come upon me,” and create in my soul a kind of incarnation of the Word: that I may be another humanity for Him in which He can renew His whole Mystery. And You, O Father, bend lovingly over Your poor little creature; “cover her with Your shadow,” seeing in her only the “Beloved in whom You are well pleased.” O my Three, my All, my Beatitude, infinite Solitude, Immensity in which I lose myself, I surrender myself to You as Your prey. Bury Yourself in me that I may bury myself in You until I depart to contemplate in Your light the abyss of Your greatness. AMEN.

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Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone. Col 4:6

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