Can you imagine what it must have been like in the soul of the Virgin Mary, when after the Incarnation she carried the Incarnate Word, the Gift of God (cf. Jn 4:10). In what silence, contemplation, and worship must she have hidden in the depths of her soul to embrace God, of whom she was the Mother. My little Margaret, He is within us. Oh! Let us remain close to Him, in such silence and with such love as the Virgin Mary; that is how we will spend Advent, what do you think?
(St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, from a letter to her sister Margaret, November 22, 1903)
