November 9

Feast of the Mater Domini Icon (Italy, 1060)

Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity (d. 1906)

If you knew the gift of God! There is one creature who knew the gift of God and who never lost it. A creature that was so pure, so luminous that she almost seemed to be the Light herself. A creature so lost in God, whose life was so simple - speculum justitiae-of whom there is almost nothing to say. She is the faithful Virgin--Virgo fidelis--the only who "kept all things in her heart." She remained so small, so full of reverence before God, in the secrecy of the temple, that she attracted teh kindness of the Holy Trinity. Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880-1906)