‘Works’ – Saint Elisabeth of the Trinity - I. HEAVEN IN FAITH - Seventh Day – First & Second Prayer …
[Saint Elisabeth of the Trinity/Elizabeth Catez – XIX-XX Century; born: Avord, France/died: Dijon, France; (aged 26); Mystic; Spiritual Writer; Gifted Pianist]
Seventh Day
First prayer
22. “God chose us in Him before creation, that we should be holy and immaculate in His presence, in love.” (Ep 1:4) “The Holy Trinity created us in its image, according to the eternal design that it possessed in its bosom before the world was created,” (Ruysbroeck) in this “beginning without beginning” of which Bossuet speaks following St. John: “In principio erat Verbum.” Jn 1:1)
In the beginning was the Word; and we could add: in the beginning was nothing, for God in His eternal solitude already carried us in His thought.
“The Father contemplates Himself” “in the abyss of His fecundity, and by the very act of comprehending Himself He engendered another person, the Son, His eternal Word. The archetype of all creatures who had not yet issued out of the void eternally dwelt in Him, and God saw them …More
"23. “Our created essence asks to be rejoined with its principle.” (Ruysbroeck) The Word, “the Splendor of the Father, is the eternal archetype after which creatures are designed on the day of their creation.”
"25. “The highest perfection in this life,” says a pious author, “consists in remaining so closely united to God that the soul with all its faculties and its powers is recollected in God,” “that its affections united in the joy of love find rest only in possession of the Creator. The image of God imprinted in the soul is formed by reason, memory, and will. As long as these faculties do not bear the perfect image of God, they do not resemble Him as on the day of creation."
“The Father contemplates Himself” “in the abyss of His fecundity, and by the very act of comprehending Himself He engendered another person, the Son, His eternal Word. The archetype of all creatures who had not yet issued out of the void eternally dwelt in Him, and God saw them and contemplated them in their type in Himself. This eternal life which our archetypes possessed without us in God, is the cause of our creation.”
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"In the beginning was the Word; and we could add: in the beginning was nothing, for God in His eternal solitude already carried us in His thought."
"Seventh Day
First prayer
22. “God chose us in Him before creation, that we should be holy and immaculate in His presence, in love.” (Ep 1:4) “The Holy Trinity created us in its image, according to the eternal design that it possessed in its bosom before the world was created,” (Ruysbroeck) in this “beginning without beginning” of which Bossuet speaks following St. John: “In principio erat Verbum.” Jn 1:1)"