Elisabeth’s Catez Characteristic of Spiritual Life – St. Elisabeth of the Holy Trinity on the Base of her Letters Addressed to Canon Priest Emilian Isidor Angles Cover Image

Charakterystyka życia duchowego Elżbiety Catez – św. Elżbiety od Trójcy Świętej na podstawie jej listów adresowanych do ks. kanonika Emiliana Izydora Angles’a
Elisabeth’s Catez Characteristic of Spiritual Life – St. Elisabeth of the Holy Trinity on the Base of her Letters Addressed to Canon Priest Emilian Isidor Angles

Author(s): Janusz Wilk
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion, Pastoral Theology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Papieskiego Jana Pawła II w Krakowie
Keywords: Elisabeth Catez – Saint Elisabeth of the Holy Trinity; Canon Priest Emilian Isidor Angles; confessor; faith; spiritual life

Summary/Abstract: Elisabeth Catez and in Carmelite Convent in Dijon Elisabeth of the Holy Trinity, as well as secular person and a convent one for many years she continued correspondence with her first priest – Canon Priest Emilian Isidor Angles. After her death were kept twenty two letters, which are the foundational texts of this analyses. In the article is made the study of those letters from the perspective of author’s spiritual life. There are set two groups of these writings. In the first five (Youth Letters) are distinguished three aspects of her teologal life: 1. Desire that, what God wants; 2. The presence of God in soul; 3. Belonging to God. In other seventeen (Letters from Carmel) there are exposed three intermingling aspects of her spiritual life: 1. Gifted with love; 2. Spiritual desires; 3. Heaven in soul. These letters are the proof to what perfection can get soul sensitive to God’s voice; testimony of closeness God and man; testimony of deep spiritual life shaped by God’s grace and human’s answer; evidence of life to which God has first right.

  • Issue Year: 22/2018
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 167-189
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Polish