Hut of God

Following along the theme of 'Hut of God' or 'House of a Presence', it brings to mind someone, whose name means just that.

Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity

(As the name Elizabeth means 'House of God')

In 'Heaven in Faith', written a few months before her death, she wrote

"Remain in Me, pray in Me, adore in Me, love in Me, suffer in Me, work and act in Me. Remain in Me so that you may be able to encounter anyone or anything...." (1st Day; 2nd Prayer)

These are words which I will hold in my heart, as I journey through life. Always remembering

"Remain in me, as I in you." (Jn 15; vs 4)  

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Queen of Carmel

Joyous Feast Day to All the Carmelite Religious and the Carmelite-at-Heart

I am always reminded of this lovely poem by Sister Miriam of the Holy Spirit, OCD, on this feast :

The Cloud of Carmel

"The Lord promised that He would dwell in a cloud." (2 Chronicles 6:1)

Symbol of star or lily of the snows,
Rainbow or root or vine or fruit-filled tree :
These image the Immaculate to me
Less than a little cloud, a little light cloud rising
From Orient waters cleft by prophecy.
And as the Virgin in a most surprising
Maternity bore God and our doomed race,
I who bear God in mysteries of grace
Beseech her : Cloud, encompass God and me.

Nothing defiled can touch the cloud of Mary.
God as a child willed to be safe in her,
And the Divine Indweller sets His throne
Deep in a cloud in me, His sanctuary.
I pray, Oh, wrap me, Cloud, light Cloud of Carmel
Within whose purity my vows were sown
To lift their secrecies to God alone.
Say to my soul, the timorous and small
House of a Presence that it cannot see,
And frightened acre of a Deity,
Say in the fulness of thy clemency:
I have enclosed thee all.
Thou art in whiteness of a lighted lamb wool,
Thou art in softness of a summer wind lull.
O hut of God, hush thine anxiety.
Enfolded in this motherhood of mine
All that is beautiful and all divine
Is safe in thee.

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