The Virgin Mary, model of interior souls

"If you knew the gift of God!" There is a creature who knew the gift of God, a creature who did not lose any piece of it, who was so pure and so luminous that she seemed to be the Light itself. A creature whose life was so simple, so lost in God, that we can hardly say anything about her. This creature is the faithful Virgin, "she who kept all things in her heart."

“It seems to me that the attitude of the Virgin during the months that elapsed between the Annunciation and the Nativity is the model for interior souls, those whom God has chosen to live within, in the depths of the bottomless abyss. In what peace, in what recollection Mary lent herself to everything she did! How even the most trivial things were divinized by her! For through it all the Virgin remained the adorer of the gift of God!”

Saint Elisabeth of the Trinity

In “Heaven in Faith”, § 39-40