"Grant my soul peace": St Elizabeth of the Trinity

Dear Lay Carmelites,

As we remember that November is our month to celebrate all the Carmelite Saints on the 14th, we also recall All Carmelite souls on the 15th.

Let us continue to ardently pray for peace through the intercession of all Carmelite souls.

On September 28th, we celebrated a Service of the Word with Deacon Randy along with

the Sisters of St. Mary of Carmel. After our Morning Prayer in their beautiful Chapel, we served the Sisters through helping to “put to safe rest for winter” the Sisters’

teardrop garden.

Serving the Sisters as they live as hermits in this sacred part of God’s creation is a true privilege; really who is serving who?

Let us pray and serve as Carmelites through the intercession of St Elizabeth of the

Trinity on her Feast Day November 8th, for the true peace we encounter in the places where peace is lived such as the Hermits of St. Mary:

O my God, Trinity whom I adore, help me forget myself entirely

so to establish myself in you, unmovable and peaceful as if my

soul were already in eternity.

May nothing be able to trouble my peace or make me leave you,

O my unchanging God, but may each minute bring me more

deeply into your mystery!

Grant my soul peace.

Make it your heaven, your beloved dwelling and the place of your rest.

May I never abandon you there,

but may I be there, whole and entire,

completely vigilant in my faith, entirely adoring,

and wholly given over to your creative action.