[Sister Marites said,] "One day, I saw a poor little bird trapped inside of a greenhouse. I tried to help it, but the poor bird was scared and kept flapping its wings to go through the glass. Finally, it no longer had the strength to move, and let itself be captured.
"It is only when we allow ourselves to be captured by the Divine Hands that we can truly be free to sing the most beautiful hymns to win hearts for Jesus. This is the vocation of a cloistered Carmelite. She allows herself to be captured. To human eyes she is a prisoner. But she is more free than anyone else…freely loving the Lord and above all letting herself be loved by Him."