Think about this during this Lent.

Elizabeth of the Trinity, who died at 26, had what Scripture calls the “mind of Christ.”

Her wisdom was not speculative. It was lived.

She did not analyze the Trinity. She lived in the Trinity.

She did not construct a theory of grace.

She breathed grace.

She took the doctrine of the divine indwelling — something you find in St. Thomas Aquinas, something articulated carefully in the loftiest theology — and she received it as a child receives a gift.

And she built her entire life on it.

Her identity became simple and luminous:

She called herself “Praise of Glory,” after Ephesians 1:5 & 6: In love He predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and willto the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.

This lofty vision of our vocation as Christians is described in the attached passage.

"In Heaven" each soul is a praise of glory of the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, for each soul is established in pure love and "lives no longer its own life, but the life of God." Then it knows Him, St. Paul says, as it is known by Him. In other words "its intellect is the intellect of God, its will the will of God, its love the very love of God. In reality it is the Spirit of love and of strength who transforms the soul, for to Him it has been given to supply what is lacking to the soul," as St. Paul says again. "He works in it this glorious transformation." St. John of the Cross affirms that "the soul surrendered to love, through the strength of the Holy Spirit, is not far from being raised to the degree of which we have just spoken," even here below! This is what I call a perfect praise of glory!