O Love, Love!
You know how I love You, how I desire
To contemplate You!
You know also how I suffer…
And yet, thirty, forty years more if You like,
I am ready.
Consume my whole substance for Your glory.
Let it be distilled
Drop by drop
For Your Church.
Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity
From Drink of the Stream
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Prayers of Carmelites published by Ignatius Press, San Francisco.
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