This Present Paradise: A Spiritual Journey with St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

by Claire Dwyer

Overview

Decades before Vatican II called for the sanctification of the laity, St. Elizabeth of the Trinity prophetically claimed that holiness is not exclusively the domain of priests and nuns but is truly for everyone.

God created the human soul to be a special channel of His grace on earth and to serve as a unique image of His love. Few saints have spoken to hearts as acutely as St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, who has helped even the busiest, weariest, and most distracted of us create an inner chamber within our souls where we can rest in God's peace and love.

In this tender yet powerful book, author Claire Dwyer takes you on a spiritual journey with this little-known but fast-ascending saint. She shows you how to overcome aridity in prayer and discover ways to bring peace to familial relationships. You will learn how to identify and fulfill the specific mission God has for you and how to draw courage and meaning from the inevitable sufferings you will face.

Best of all, you will learn how to encounter and live in union with God, which opens up a sanctuary of peace within your soul.

The purpose of your life is not something to discover in the remote future. You can begin to live your ultimate end — union with the Trinity — right now in the secret center of your heart, where the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit already dwell.

St. Elizabeth of the Trinity has revealed the way. Read this book, and you will see with new eyes that your eternal destiny is already living within you, in this present paradise.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781644132876
Publisher:	Sophia Institute Press
Publication date:	01/10/2021
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Claire Dwyer works for the Avila Foundation as marketing manager as well editor and contributor on its website spiritualdirection.comShe has a degree in Theology from Franciscan University of Steubenville and is now a student in the Avila Institute's graduate program in Spiritual Theology.She is author of This Present Paradise: A Spiritual Journey with St. Elizabeth of the Trinity (Sophia Institute Press, 2021). She has been featured in such publications as the National Catholic Register, the Catechetical Review, and Catholic Exchange, and writes regularly on her own website EventheSparrow.com on everything from saints and scripture to the interior life.Most importantly, she has been married for 23 years and has six children, ages 22-8, all of whom keep her

Table of Contents

Foreword Dan Burke ix

Introduction 1

1 A Threefold Cord 5

2 That Eternal Gaze 9

3 Never Stop Coming 13

4 Motive Makes the Saint 17

5 He Played for Me 21

6 I Want to Be a Nun 27

7 Sacred Spaces 31

8 Between Two Worlds 37

9 And God Saw That It Was Good 43

10 Expect Him Everywhere 49

11 The Woman of the Hour 53

12 Headaches and Hair Shirts 59

13 Shiny Things 65

14 Works of Mercy 71

15 Friends in Heaven 77

16 I Will Restore the Years 83

17 To Have Eternal Life 87

18 And I Know Yon by Name 91

19 What Is Your Motto? 97

20 The Life of a Carmelite 101

21 Faith or Feelings 107

22 A Divine Darkness 115

23 A Living Smile 123

24 To Be a Bride 129

25 The Power of Intercessory Prayer 135

26 Saints Are People Too 141

27 My Every Act Is Love 145

28 Called to Carmel for the Persecution 149

29 To Be an Apostle with You 155

30 Motherhood according to the Spirit 163

31 Teach Us to Pray 171

32 Take Up and Read 179

33 The One You Love Is Sick 185

34 On Retreat with the Praise of Glory 193

35 Humility and High Ideals 203

36 To Light, to Love, to Life 209

37 Let Yourself Be Loved 213

38 We Have Our Heaven Within Us 219

About the Author 225