đ OraciĂłn / Prayer
Señor, condĂșceme a ese lugar espacioso donde habita Tu silencio.
Hazme entrar en la soledad infinita donde Tu Palabra se oye y transforma.
Encierra mi voluntad en la Tuya, para que todo en mĂ sea movimiento de Tu EspĂritu
y viva, desde ahora, en Tu eterno presente.

- âEl Señor me condujo a un lugar espacioso, porque se mostrĂł misericordioso conmigo.â
El Creador, al contemplar el hermoso silencio que reina en su criatura, y al verla recogida en su interior soledad, se enamora de su belleza y la conduce a esa inmensa, infinita soledad, a ese âespacioso lugarâ del que canta el profeta, que no es otro sino Ăl mismo: âEntrarĂ© en las profundidades del poder de Dios.â
El Señor, hablando por medio del profeta, dijo: âLa conducirĂ© a la soledad y hablarĂ© a su corazĂłn.â
El alma ha entrado en esa vasta soledad en la que Dios se harĂĄ oĂr.
âSu palabra,â dice San Pablo, âes viva y eficaz, mĂĄs cortante que espada de dos filos: penetra hasta dividir el alma y el espĂritu, las coyunturas y los tuĂ©tanos.â
Es, pues, Su palabra la que directamente realiza la obra de despojo en el alma; porque tiene esta caracterĂstica: produce y crea lo que anuncia, siempre que el alma consienta en dejarse hacer.
- Pero no basta con escuchar esta palabra: hay que guardarla.
Y es en guardarla donde el alma serĂĄ âsantificada en la verdadâ, que es el deseo del Maestro: âSantifĂcalos en la verdad, tu palabra es verdad.â
ÂżY no ha hecho Ăl esta promesa a quien guarda Su palabra?: âMi Padre lo amarĂĄ, y vendremos a Ă©l, y haremos morada en Ă©l.â
Es toda la Trinidad la que habita en el alma que los ama en verdad, es decir, guardando su palabra.
Y cuando esa alma ha comprendido sus riquezas, todas las alegrĂas, naturales o sobrenaturales, que puedan venirle de las criaturas o del mismo Dios, no son sino una invitaciĂłn a reentrar en sĂ misma, para gozar del Bien sustancial que posee, que no es otro que Dios mismo.
AsĂ, dice San Juan de la Cruz, el alma llega a tener cierta semejanza con el Ser divino:
âSed perfectos como vuestro Padre celestial es perfecto.â
San Pablo me recuerda que âĂl hace todas las cosas segĂșn el consejo de Su voluntad,â
y mi Maestro me pide rendirle homenaje tambiĂ©n en esto: hacer todas las cosas segĂșn el consejo de mi voluntad, sin dejarme arrastrar por las impresiones o los primeros impulsos de la naturaleza, sino permitiendo que la voluntad gane dominio propio.
Y para que esta voluntad sea libre, debe âen expresiĂłn de un escritor piadosoâ âencerrarse en la voluntad de Dios.â
Entonces serĂ© âmovida por Su EspĂritu,â como dice San Pablo.
Haré solo lo que es divino, solo lo que es eterno, y, como mi Inmutable, viviré ya aquà abajo en un presente eterno.
đŹđ§ Last Retreat â Eleventh Day
Saint Elizabeth of The Trinity
- âThe Lord brought me into a spacious place, because He was gracious toward me.â
The Creator, seeing the beautiful silence reigning in His creature, gazing upon her wholly recollected in her interior solitude, becomes enamored of her beauty and leads her into that immense, infinite solitudeâinto that âspacious placeâ sung of by the prophetâwhich is nothing else but Himself: âI will enter into the depths of the power of God.â
Speaking through His prophet, the Lord said: âI will lead her into solitude and speak to her heart.â
The soul has entered into that vast solitude where God will make Himself heard.
âHis word,â says Saint Paul, âis living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow.â
It is His word, then, that accomplishes directly the work of stripping within the soul; for it has this particular powerâto effect and to create what it declaresâso long as the soul consents to let it be done.
- But it is not enough merely to hear this word; we must keep it.
And it is in keeping it that the soul will be âsanctified in the truth,â which is the desire of the Master: âSanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.â
To the one who keeps His word, has He not made this promise?: âMy Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home in him.â
It is the whole Trinity who dwells within the soul that loves Them in truthâthat is, by keeping Their word.
And when this soul has realized its richness, all the natural or supernatural joys that may come to it from creatures or from God Himself are only an invitation to reenter into itself, to enjoy the substantial Good it possesses, which is nothing other than God Himself.
Thus, says Saint John of the Cross, the soul comes to bear a certain resemblance to the Divine Being:
âBe perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.â
Saint Paul tells me that âHe works all things according to the counsel of His will,â
and my Master asks me also to pay Him homage in this: to do all things according to the counsel of my will, never to be ruled by impressions or by the first impulses of nature, but to let the will gain self-mastery.
And for this will to be free, it must, in the expression of a pious writer, be âenclosed in Godâs will.â
Then I shall be âmoved by His Spirit,â as Saint Paul says.
I shall do only what is divine, only what is eternal, andâlike my Unchanging OneâI shall live even here below in an eternal present.
đ Lord, lead me into that spacious place where Your silence dwells.
Bring me into the infinite solitude where Your Word is heard and transforms.
Enclose my will within Yours, so that all within me may be moved by Your Spirit
and live, even now, in Your eternal present.
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