About the book: For centuries, the human family has yearned to know what our heroes and holy people looked like. The result was the fruit of imagination usually, expressed in carvings and stained glass windows, occasionally in more-or-less accurate paintings. But the advent of photography for the first time let us truly "meet" the subject in a way never before possible. While a photo is no substitute for a live encounter, it nevertheless gives us a glimpse into the person's soul; we feel we now know him or her in a more intimate and personal way.
Since her death in 1906, Elizabeth of the Trinity - Elizabeth Catez of Dijon, France - has drawn countless men and women to a deeper relationship with God through her laser-sharp focus on the mystery of the divine indwelling in the human person.
In our frenetic, fast-paced and constantly wired world, the message of this young Carmelite nun is more relevant than ever. She shares with us her "secret": not only that God loves us, but loves us to the point of making the center of our being "another heaven" - the place where God dwells, always present, always accessible and longing for intimate relationship with us.
This marvellous book (1984) - back in print after an absence of twenty-five years - invites the reader to meet Elizabeth of the Trinity in selections from her own writings and in the more than seventy photos that span her short but luminous life.
From the pouting toddler hugging her doll to the talented young pianist, from the style-conscious socialite to the radiant contemplative nun, this photo album gives us Elizabeth as she was. It invites us to know her better, and to make her secret - God's indwelling presence - our own.
Elizabeth of the Trinity: Light, Love, Life, A Look at a Face and a Heart (2012) is edited by Conrad de Meester OCD (Order of Discalced Carmelites) and the Carmel of Dijon and is translated from the French by Sister Aletheia Kane OCD.
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