St. Elizabeth of the Trinity Novena Prayer Patron Saint of Sick People, Loss of Parents, Against Illness
St. Elizabeth of the Trinity Novena All 9 Days.
| Novena | St. Elizabeth of the Trinity Novena |
| Novena Begins | October 30 |
| Feast Day | November 8 |
| Patron saint of | Sick People, Loss of Parents, Against Illness |
About St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
Elizabeth was born on July 18th 1880 at the army camp in Avor near Bourges in France, where her father was a captain. She was baptised four days later on the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, a fact which she treasured. When she was 2½ her sister Marguerite, known as Guite, was born. Elizabeth’s father died when she was only seven years old. By this time the family was living in a camp in Dijon, but after the captain died, they moved into a flat. Elizabeth could see the Carmel of Dijon from her bedroom window. She was very high spirited and given to fiery outbursts of anger when things did not go her way. In 1891 Elizabeth received her First Holy Communion and it made a deep impression on her. From this time on the Eucharist became the centre of Elizabeth’s life and it gave her the strength and determination she needed to make a real effort to overcome her rages.
When she was eight Elizabeth’s mother enrolled her in the Conservatoire, probably with the intention of preparing her to teach music. Elizabeth practised the piano for several hours each day; she was an exceptionally gifted pianist. She often played in concerts and when she was thirteen she won first prize for her playing. She could undoubtedly have gone on to become a concert pianist, but God had other plans for her.
Around the time of her fourteenth birthday Elizabeth made a vow of virginity, as an act of total self-offering to God. She had already felt the call to religious life and one day after receiving Holy Communion she became convinced God was calling her to Carmel.
Meanwhile she spent happy holidays with her mother and sister. Elizabeth dressed in the latest fashions, enjoyed dances and loved walking in the country, where she appreciated all the beauties of creation. She had a great gift for friendship and was popular with her peers, but in everything God was at the centre. She said that when she played the piano she forgot all about the audience and played only for him.
Elizabeth had a natural gift for contemplative prayer, people remarked on her total stillness and said that she seemed ‘Lost in God’, but she was active in her parish too. She taught catechism and ran a club for the children of workers in a tobacco factory; she visited the sick and sang in the parish choir.
Elizabeth entered the Carmel of Dijon on August 2nd 1901 and on December 8th Feast of the Immaculate Conception, she was clothed in the Carmelite habit.
Elizabeth was full of joy as a postulant; she found God everywhere, in her work as well as at prayer. She loved the silence of her cell where she could listen to him speaking to her in the scriptures. Her novitiate year was not so smooth, as with her great desire for perfection she struggled with scruples. Elizabeth lived in pure faith, during her novitiate; it was a purification which strengthened her and gave her courage. Mother Germaine, at 31 was Elizabeth’s prioress and novice mistress. She understood Elizabeth and emphasised the way of confidence in the merciful love of God, as expressed by Thérèse of Lisieux in her Story of a Soul, which had been sent to the Carmels as Thérèse’s obituary circular about three years before Elizabeth entered.
Elizabeth made her Profession as a Carmelite on January 11th 1903 and on 21st Feast of St. Agnes, she received the black veil in a public ceremony.
Elizabeth shared in her sister’s joy when she married and again later when she had her first two children. Seeing her sister so happy and devoted to her husband, made Elizabeth reflect on her role as spouse of Christ. She wanted to love him with an undivided heart, to stay with him all the time in deep communion; to share in his redemptive suffering and prayer, and so become fruitful, by nourishing others and drawing them to him.
Elizabeth’s horizons were expanding; as she pondered the scriptures she felt she was being transformed into another humanity for Christ, an idea which she developed from Paul’s text ‘It is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me’ She had an intuitive grasp of the ‘universal call to holiness’ long before it was named in the Church.
Elizabeth also had a strong awareness of the indwelling of the Trinity. She often called the Trinity ‘My Three’ and had an intimate relationship with Father, Word and Spirit, as she usually called them. Later she discovered her vocation to be a ‘Praise of glory’ and sometimes she even signed herself by this name.
Around the time of her twenty-third birthday it became clear that Elizabeth’s health was failing, she had developed Addison’s disease, at that time incurable. It led to her death at the age of 26 on November 9th 1906. By this time she was fully surrendered to God and died saying, ‘I am going to Light to Love to Life!’
St. Elizabeth of the Trinity Novena Day 1
Let us begin, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
O Jesus, even though I fall at every moment, in trustful faith I shall pray to You to raise me up, and I know that You will forgive me, and will blot out everything with care. More than that: You will deliver me from my miseries, from everything that is an obstacle to Your divine action; and will draw all my powers to Yourself, and make them Your captive…Then I shall have passed completely into You and shall be able to say: It is no longer I that live, my Master lives in me. O Lord, the desire to listen to Your divine Word , the need to be silent is sometimes so strong that I wish not to know how to do anything else save to remain at Your feet like the Magdalen, in order to penetrate ever more deeply into that mystery of love which You came to reveal to us.
Amen
(Mention your request here…)
St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, pray for us
Say 1: Our Father… Say 1: Hail Mary…Say 1: Glory Be…
St. Elizabeth of the Trinity Novena Day 2
Let us begin, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
O Jesus, even though I fall at every moment, in trustful faith I shall pray to You to raise me up, and I know that You will forgive me, and will blot out everything with care. More than that: You will deliver me from my miseries, from everything that is an obstacle to Your divine action; and will draw all my powers to Yourself, and make them Your captive…Then I shall have passed completely into You and shall be able to say: It is no longer I that live, my Master lives in me. O Lord, the desire to listen to Your divine Word , the need to be silent is sometimes so strong that I wish not to know how to do anything else save to remain at Your feet like the Magdalen, in order to penetrate ever more deeply into that mystery of love which You came to reveal to us.
Amen
(Mention your request here…)
St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, pray for us
Say 1: Our Father… Say 1: Hail Mary…Say 1: Glory Be…
St. Elizabeth of the Trinity Novena Day 3
Let us begin, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
O Jesus, even though I fall at every moment, in trustful faith I shall pray to You to raise me up, and I know that You will forgive me, and will blot out everything with care. More than that: You will deliver me from my miseries, from everything that is an obstacle to Your divine action; and will draw all my powers to Yourself, and make them Your captive…Then I shall have passed completely into You and shall be able to say: It is no longer I that live, my Master lives in me. O Lord, the desire to listen to Your divine Word , the need to be silent is sometimes so strong that I wish not to know how to do anything else save to remain at Your feet like the Magdalen, in order to penetrate ever more deeply into that mystery of love which You came to reveal to us.
Amen
(Mention your request here…)
St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, pray for us
Say 1: Our Father… Say 1: Hail Mary…Say 1: Glory Be…
St. Elizabeth of the Trinity Novena Day 4
Let us begin, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
O Jesus, even though I fall at every moment, in trustful faith I shall pray to You to raise me up, and I know that You will forgive me, and will blot out everything with care. More than that: You will deliver me from my miseries, from everything that is an obstacle to Your divine action; and will draw all my powers to Yourself, and make them Your captive…Then I shall have passed completely into You and shall be able to say: It is no longer I that live, my Master lives in me. O Lord, the desire to listen to Your divine Word , the need to be silent is sometimes so strong that I wish not to know how to do anything else save to remain at Your feet like the Magdalen, in order to penetrate ever more deeply into that mystery of love which You came to reveal to us.
Amen
(Mention your request here…)
St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, pray for us
Say 1: Our Father… Say 1: Hail Mary…Say 1: Glory Be…
St. Elizabeth of the Trinity Novena Day 5
Let us begin, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
O Jesus, even though I fall at every moment, in trustful faith I shall pray to You to raise me up, and I know that You will forgive me, and will blot out everything with care. More than that: You will deliver me from my miseries, from everything that is an obstacle to Your divine action; and will draw all my powers to Yourself, and make them Your captive…Then I shall have passed completely into You and shall be able to say: It is no longer I that live, my Master lives in me. O Lord, the desire to listen to Your divine Word , the need to be silent is sometimes so strong that I wish not to know how to do anything else save to remain at Your feet like the Magdalen, in order to penetrate ever more deeply into that mystery of love which You came to reveal to us.
Amen
(Mention your request here…)
St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, pray for us
Say 1: Our Father… Say 1: Hail Mary…Say 1: Glory Be…
St. Elizabeth of the Trinity Novena Day 6
Let us begin, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
O Jesus, even though I fall at every moment, in trustful faith I shall pray to You to raise me up, and I know that You will forgive me, and will blot out everything with care. More than that: You will deliver me from my miseries, from everything that is an obstacle to Your divine action; and will draw all my powers to Yourself, and make them Your captive…Then I shall have passed completely into You and shall be able to say: It is no longer I that live, my Master lives in me. O Lord, the desire to listen to Your divine Word , the need to be silent is sometimes so strong that I wish not to know how to do anything else save to remain at Your feet like the Magdalen, in order to penetrate ever more deeply into that mystery of love which You came to reveal to us.
Amen
(Mention your request here…)
St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, pray for us
Say 1: Our Father… Say 1: Hail Mary…Say 1: Glory Be…
St. Elizabeth of the Trinity Novena Day 7
Let us begin, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
O Jesus, even though I fall at every moment, in trustful faith I shall pray to You to raise me up, and I know that You will forgive me, and will blot out everything with care. More than that: You will deliver me from my miseries, from everything that is an obstacle to Your divine action; and will draw all my powers to Yourself, and make them Your captive…Then I shall have passed completely into You and shall be able to say: It is no longer I that live, my Master lives in me. O Lord, the desire to listen to Your divine Word , the need to be silent is sometimes so strong that I wish not to know how to do anything else save to remain at Your feet like the Magdalen, in order to penetrate ever more deeply into that mystery of love which You came to reveal to us.
Amen
(Mention your request here…)
St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, pray for us
Say 1: Our Father… Say 1: Hail Mary…Say 1: Glory Be…
St. Elizabeth of the Trinity Novena Day 8
Let us begin, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
O Jesus, even though I fall at every moment, in trustful faith I shall pray to You to raise me up, and I know that You will forgive me, and will blot out everything with care. More than that: You will deliver me from my miseries, from everything that is an obstacle to Your divine action; and will draw all my powers to Yourself, and make them Your captive…Then I shall have passed completely into You and shall be able to say: It is no longer I that live, my Master lives in me. O Lord, the desire to listen to Your divine Word , the need to be silent is sometimes so strong that I wish not to know how to do anything else save to remain at Your feet like the Magdalen, in order to penetrate ever more deeply into that mystery of love which You came to reveal to us.
Amen
(Mention your request here…)
St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, pray for us
Say 1: Our Father… Say 1: Hail Mary…Say 1: Glory Be…
St. Elizabeth of the Trinity Novena Day 9
Let us begin, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
O Jesus, even though I fall at every moment, in trustful faith I shall pray to You to raise me up, and I know that You will forgive me, and will blot out everything with care. More than that: You will deliver me from my miseries, from everything that is an obstacle to Your divine action; and will draw all my powers to Yourself, and make them Your captive…Then I shall have passed completely into You and shall be able to say: It is no longer I that live, my Master lives in me. O Lord, the desire to listen to Your divine Word , the need to be silent is sometimes so strong that I wish not to know how to do anything else save to remain at Your feet like the Magdalen, in order to penetrate ever more deeply into that mystery of love which You came to reveal to us.
Amen
(Mention your request here…)
St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, pray for us
Say 1: Our Father… Say 1: Hail Mary…Say 1: Glory Be…
Prayer to
O my God, Trinity whom I adore, help me to forget myself entirely and establish me in You, calm and quiet as though my soul were already in eternity; that nothing might disturb my peace or cause me to leave You, my Unchanging God, but that every moment draw me ever-deeper into the depths of your mystery. Quiet my soul, make it Your heaven, Your favorite dwelling and Your resting place; may I never leave You alone, but be wholly present, entirely vigilant in my faith, wholly adoring, wholly abandoned to Your creative action.
O my beloved Christ, crucified for love, I want to be the bride of Your Heart, I want to cover You with glory, I want to love You…to the point of dying of love! … But I feel my impotence and I ask You to clothe me with Yourself, to identify my soul with every movement of Your Soul, to drown me, invade me, substitute Yourself for me, so that my life be nothing more than an effusion of Your life. Come into my soul as Adorer, as ‘Reparator’ and as Savior. O Eternal Word, Word of my God, I want to spend my life listening to You, I want to become docility itself so as to learn all things from You. Then, through all the nights, all the emptiness, all powerlessness, I want to fix my gaze on You and remain in Your great light. O my Beloved Star, enchant me so that I can no longer leave the splendor of Your rays.
O consuming Fire, Spirit of love, come over me so that in my soul there is an incarnation of the Word so that I might be for Him an extra-added humanity in whom He can renew all His mystery; and You, O Father, bend down to Your little creature, cover me with Your shadow and see in me only Your Beloved in whom You have placed all Your delight.
O my Three, my All, my Blessedness, Infinite Solitude, Immensity in Whom I lose myself, I hand myself over to You as Your prey. Bury Yourselves in me so that I may be buried in You, while I await coming to contemplate by Your light, the abyss of Your greatness. Amen.
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