Chapter 57: For the Feast of St. Elizabeth

How pleasing it is to the Saints that we should praise God on their account.

ON the Feast of St. Elizabeth, as the words Eia mater nos agnosce were chanted, Gertrude saluted her very devoutly, beseeching her to remember her, though unworthy. Then St. Elizabeth said to her : "I know you in the mirror of eternal light, where the intention which you have in per forming your actions shines with marvellous splendour." St. Gertrude then inquired : " Has my union with God, during the Office, rendered it less pleasing to you, as I thought less of you in consequence ? " She replied : " On the contrary, I accept it with infinite gratitude ; and it is as much more pleasing to me as a concert of music would be to the lowing of oxen."