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.
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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