A contemporary of her better known sister in Carmel, St Therese of Lisieux, Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity seems also to have been given to us by God to announce the Good News of His Love, entrusted with what Hans Urs von Balthasar calls a "theological mission."

Like St Therese, Elizabeth died at a young age, and left behind a rather slim corpus of writings. But how rich they are!  Filled out with many letters written to family and friends, Elizabeth opens for us especially the riches of St Paul and St John the Beloved Disciple.

Her most sustained writings are contained in notes she kept during two Retreats -- and in these reflections we are given a glimpse into a heart completely given to the Praise of Glory -- heaven on earth, the heaven of the soul.

Receiving on earth her new name in heaven, Laudem Gloriae, The Praise of Glory, Elizabeth points us to the Mystery of Christ in our own midst, and the indwelling of the Most Blessed Trinity.

May she intercede for all of us that we, too, may live for the praise of God's Glory -- which is His Love that stoops so low to raise us so high.