A cloistered sister, which means that you enter the enclosure of your convent and rarely ever leave it. Her mom knew what it was to lose somebody through death and really was not interested in losing a daughter to the religious life because the Carmelites in particular are a cloistered order, which means that you don’t just become a sister or a nun, but you become. But God was opening up something new to her because she discerned that the Lord was calling her to a religious vocation, but her mother was not excited about that. So as a little girl, she experienced a lot of tragedy and loss in her life. And that little apartment happened to be around the corner from a cloistered Carmelite, convent, and little Elizabeth bedroom overlooked the garden of that convent. They had to move to a small apartment in Dijon, France. And so her mom had to raise two little girls on her own. But when she was very young, her father died. She had a Catholic upbringing, a very loving family. ![]() Anyway, Elizabeth, as a Trinity was born in 1880 in France. And had this devotion to her for a long time. And I’m like, I don’t know how, but you know, they, they stumbled upon her. And then there’s some people that are like, well, I’ve loved her for decades. So there’s a lot of people that maybe had heard of her, but didn’t really know anything about or never heard of her. And it took a while for her to be canonized because she died in 1906. Elizabeth of the Trinity, and there’s a reason by the way that you haven’t heard of her, she was just canonized in 2016. ![]() So let’s just like in a nutshell, the, the short version of St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, because I personally have never heard of her until this podcast. But I’m going to have to ask you to take a step back and explain St. And so this present paradise was just published in January by Sophia InstitutePress And I started reading her and was just fascinated with her and then ended up writing some posts, which became a book. The step before canonization – somebody declared a blessing by the church. Actually I started reading about Elizabeth of the Trinity while she was still a blessing and had not been canonized yet. And then I was taking classes in spiritual theology and encountered this beautiful young Saint that I had never heard of before. And so I do have a blog called even the and where I started to write. What 47 seconds of free time I have every week I do like to write. And now I work full time for the Avila foundation and spiritual, primarily as editor and in the marketing management position. And so I raised my six kids and when my youngest was about two, I started working for the church first at the parish level. Yes, it is just, it was a great blessing. I live in Phoenix, Arizona, but I grew up in Wisconsin and met my husband at Franciscan university. So why don’t you take a few minutes to introduce yourself to the audience? ![]() We’re so happy to have you and to learn more about your book, because I’m personally interested to hear about the whole premise of it. I’m very excited to welcome Claire Dwyer today to talk about her book, this present paradise. Welcome back to another episode of Hear and Now Podcast.
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