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If you knew the gift of God<\/em>, Christ said one evening to the Samaritan woman.\u00a0 Yet what is this gift of God but himself?\u00a0He came to his own home, and his own people received him not<\/em>, declared the beloved Disciple. To many a soul might Saint John the Baptist utter the reproach:\u00a0 Among you stands one whom you do not know<\/em>.<\/p>\n

There is one created being who did know that gift of God, who lost no particle of it; a creature so pure and luminous that she seemed to be the Light itself: Mirror of righteousness – a being whose life was so simple, so lost in God, that there is but little to say of it: the faithful Virgin, who kept all these words in her heart<\/em>. She was so lowly, so hidden in God…that she drew upon herself the regard of the Holy Trinity:\u00a0Because he has regarded the humility of his handmaid, for behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed<\/em>.<\/p>\n

By St. Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880-1906).<\/em><\/p>\n

Image: The Immaculate Heart of Mary, Stephen B. Whatley, 2010. You can view more of Whatley’s work here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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