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  1 Intro,      0|             distinctions as to level them all in relation to itself.
  2 Intro,      0|            very different today; for them, as for other Christians,
  3 Intro,      0|         suffering wherever she finds them, in the condemned cell or
  4 Intro,      0|           spirit in which he pursued them excludes him from that Pantheon
  5 Intro,      0|          with much serving. We honor them, and rightly; but if they
  6 Intro,      0|            hearts do not run to meet them, as they fly to the embrace
  7 Intro,      0|       experienced and triumphed over them. Terrible, again, is the
  8   1,      2  |             Your kindness, to punish them in my person." ~
  9   1,      4  |            to Me, and I will give to them according to the disposition
 10   1,      4  |          their despair as to condemn them through contempt of the
 11   1,      4  |              sweetness, has restored them. ~
 12   1,      4  |            fruit which I destine for them, constrained by the prayers
 13   1,      4  |             servants, is that I give them light, and that I wake up
 14   1,      4  |         light, and that I wake up in them the hound of conscience,
 15   1,      4  |              of conscience, and make them smell the odor of virtue,
 16   1,      4  |              allow the world to show them what it is, so that, feeling
 17   1,      4  |          Eternal Life. And so I draw them by these, and by many other
 18   1,      4  |          through love alone, to lead them back to grace, so that My
 19   1,      4  |            truth may be fulfilled in them. I am constrained to do
 20   1,      4  |             Mine, by which I created them, and by the love, desire,
 21   1,      4  |             prayers; rather I accept them, inasmuch as I am He who
 22   1,      4  |         inasmuch as I am He who give them this love for the good of
 23   1,      4  |  satisfaction for the penalty due to them, but, only for their guilt,
 24   1,      4  |           desires of those who offer them to Me, for their sakes,
 25   1,      4  |              of My servants done for them, that which was given them,
 26   1,      4  |           them, that which was given them, through mercy, turns to
 27   1,      5  |              circumstance I may send them to her. Patience cannot
 28   1,      7  |           but, although I have given them in such a different way,
 29   1,      7  |             have one, without having them all, because all the virtues
 30   1,      7  | indifferently, and I have not placed them all in one soul, in order
 31   1,      7  |             My ministers, and placed them in diverse stations and
 32   2,      3  |    profitable that the creature omit them, and even that she be made
 33   2,      3  |       Wherefore, when the soul omits them through necessity, being
 34   2,      3  |             she continued then to do them, she not only would receive
 35   2,      3  |           ought, therefore, to adopt them as a means, and not as an
 36   2,      3  |            an end. For, if she takes them as an end she will be obliged,
 37   2,      3  |              time or other, to leave them, and will then remain empty.
 38   2,      3  |            said that I wished few of them, showing you that every
 39   2,      3  |               and therefore I called them of little account; but they
 40   2,      3  |       increase her virtues and prove them, which virtues have been
 41   2,      4  |          many creatures, and give to them the light of knowledge,
 42   2,      4  |           until I see that you grant them mercy. For what is it to
 43   2,      5  |           when you were generated by them. But this mark is removed
 44   2,      6  |            graces which I have given them, and continue to give them,
 45   2,      6  |           them, and continue to give them, that, not only do they
 46   2,      6  |             though I have reconciled them, by means of the Blood of
 47   2,      6  |            My divine love, and, with them, wash the face of My spouse. ~
 48   2,      7  |              for which I had created them, and My truth was not fulfilled.
 49   2,     10  |       creature has not been made for them, but for Me, in order to
 50   2,     11  |          rain of Justice did not let them pass; but, after the stones
 51   2,     11  |             of the virtues, planting them as living stones, and cementing
 52   2,     11  |         living stones, and cementing them with His Blood, so that
 53   2,     11  |         together again, and cemented them with His Blood. Wherefore,
 54   2,     11  |           love, on creatures, loving them, and being kept by them
 55   2,     11  |              them, and being kept by them far from Me, the soul drowns,
 56   2,     11  |             by which he has to leave them, or through my disposition,
 57   2,     13  |             the virtuous, and reward them for their labors, both in
 58   2,     14  |               in order that I may do them mercy.' Oh, Mercy, who proceeds
 59   2,     14  |              Mercy and Your Truth in them? Because Your goodness promises
 60   2,     14  |        goodness promises a reward to them that serve You in truth,
 61   2,     14  |              Your servants, and give them the fruit of their labors.
 62   2,     15  |           slaves of sin. I have made them trees of love with the life
 63   2,     16  |              but because nature gave them the light to know that this
 64   2,     16  |            order that the thought of them should not occupy their
 65   2,     17  |             and relations, and cause them to fall with them into great
 66   2,     17  |              cause them to fall with them into great misery. And,
 67   2,     17  |  nevertheless, in My mercy I sustain them, I do not command the earth
 68   2,     17  |         command the earth to swallow them up, that they may repent
 69   2,     18  |       Eternal Truth, who was amongst them, as said My Truth: 'The
 70   2,     19  |             good things seem evil to them, and bad things, that is
 71   2,     19  |      disorderly living, seem good to them. Oh, how blind is the human
 72   2,     20  |               who are descended from them, following the truth which
 73   2,     20  |             the truth is revealed to them showing them vice and virtue.
 74   2,     20  |             revealed to them showing them vice and virtue. And I have
 75   2,     20  |              virtue. And I have made them see the fruit of virtue,
 76   2,     20  |         hurtfulness of vice, to give them love and holy fear with
 77   2,     20  |             truth has not been shown them by an angel, so that they
 78   2,     20  |              Truth has been given to them with your mortal flesh. ~
 79   2,     20  |              are constantly given to them. Wherefore, if they do not
 80   2,     20  |          when My Justice will cry to them, 'Rise, you dead, and come
 81   2,     21  |              eternally tortured with them. And they are reproved of
 82   2,     21  |           mercy, I with justice send them, with their cruel servant,
 83   2,     22  |            Me, which is such pain to them, that, were it possible,
 84   2,     22  |           This first pain revives in them, then, the second, the worm
 85   2,     22  |          third pain and redoubles to them their every toil. As the
 86   2,     22  |             sight is more painful to them, because they see him in
 87   2,     22  |           permitted the fire to burn them with torments, so that it
 88   2,     22  |        torments, so that it torments them, without consuming them,
 89   2,     22  |              them, without consuming them, with the greatest pains
 90   2,     24  |           were in the world, to tell them of his pains. This, certainly,
 91   2,     24  |            eldest, and had nourished them up in the same miseries
 92   2,     25  |             to Me, is it measured to them. Because they have lived
 93   2,     25  |       spirits, seeing and tasting in them the beauty and the sweetness
 94   2,     25  |             a way that, time failing them, and, dying in a state of
 95   2,     25  |            even are contented to see them punished as My enemies.
 96   2,     25  |              desire does not afflict them, as they do not actually
 97   2,     25  |              desire does not afflict them, because, though they have
 98   2,     25  |          bliss is thereby lacking to them. Wherefore they feel not
 99   2,     25  |             perfection is lacking to them. So it is not the body that
100   2,     25  |       because no bliss is lacking to them, the soul being satisfied
101   2,     25  |              this delight endure for them eternally. Not that they
102   2,     25  |         which they have brought with them, that is, they cannot do
103   2,     25  |              My Son will not seem to them terrible, or full of hatred,
104   2,     26  |           the righteous, which is to them an increase of pain, as,
105   2,     26  |          terrible voice shall say to them, 'Arise, you dead, and come
106   2,     26  |           blessed ones will reproach them greatly, and make them ashamed,
107   2,     26  |      reproach them greatly, and make them ashamed, and the worm of
108   2,     26  |              Blood that was shed for them, and by the works of mercy,
109   2,     26  |            temporal, which I did for them by means of My Son, and
110   2,     26  |            glorified body, rewarding them for the toils they bore
111   2,     26  |              of the Lie, which leads them to the water of death. And
112   2,     26  |            this that the Devil calls them, and they are as blind and
113   2,     26  |           Devil says, as it were, to them: 'Whosoever thirsts for
114   2,     27  |     creatures strong, and have given them strength of will, fortified
115   2,     27  |             feeble, when I have made them strong, and in putting themselves
116   2,     27  |             their hate, surges up to them in the extremity of death,
117   2,     27  |            which I have prepared for them, and embrace it with the
118   2,     27  |          those perfect ones, but, in them, it is imperfect, for, because
119   2,     27  |            fly pains, they fall into them; and of the vision of a
120   2,     27  |          which he has, and, blinding them with the pleasures and conditions
121   2,     27  |             of the world, he catches them with the hook of pleasure,
122   2,     27  |             other way could he catch them, for they would not allow
123   2,     27  |         therefore, the Devil, seeing them blinded by self-love, iniquitously
124   2,     27  |           iniquitously places before them diverse and various delights,
125   2,     27  |             troubles, they fall into them. For, because it seems to
126   2,     27  |             For, because it seems to them that following Me, that
127   2,     27  |             come to Me. I have shown them the Truth, making Myself
128   2,     27  |             making Myself visible to them, and I have shown them what
129   2,     27  |            to them, and I have shown them what it is to love anything
130   2,     28  |            thorns, which do not hurt them, their feet being shod with
131   2,     28  |           allow the Devil to trouble them, permitting temptations
132   2,     28  |      permitting temptations to prove them in virtue, as I told you
133   2,     28  |        produced after sin) come upon them, they endure them all with
134   2,     28  |          come upon them, they endure them all with the light of reason
135   2,     28  |             because I wish to punish them in this life, and in this
136   2,     28  |          their heart is drawn out of them and united to Me by the
137   2,     29  |             and proving of virtue in them. And, notwithstanding all
138   2,     29  |    notwithstanding all this, she saw them, through self-love and disordinate
139   2,     30  |            the intellect to perceive them and the affection to love
140   2,     30  |            and the affection to love them; for had worldly things
141   2,     30  |              intellect is deluded by them, and the affection of the
142   2,     30  |          will is deluded into loving them, and the memory into retaining
143   2,     30  |             retaining remembrance of them. The unity of these powers
144   2,     30  |          grace, rest in the midst of them; and this is what My truth,
145   2,     30  |           there am I in the midst of them.' And this is the truth.
146   2,     33  |              will be in the midst of them.' I said to you that two
147   2,     33  |           Name, I am in the midst of them by grace, and a man, who
148   2,     33  |            or, if he will still hold them, he does so according to
149   2,     35  |            pierce the soul who loves them disordinately." ~
150   2,     37  |       occasion, in order to exercise them in virtue and raise them
151   2,     37  |             them in virtue and raise them above their imperfection,
152   2,     37  |             My consolation and allow them to fall into battles and
153   2,     37  |            for which purpose I treat them thus, without drawing from
154   2,     37  |           thus, without drawing from them consolation indeed, but
155   2,     37  |     creatures, I give and promise to them for their sanctification,
156   2,     37  |              end for which I created them. My creatures should see
157   2,     37  |         Truth, how, in order to give them eternal life, I created
158   2,     37  |              eternal life, I created them in My image and likeness
159   2,     37  |              likeness and re-created them to grace with the Blood
160   2,     37  |              Blood of My Son, making them sons of adoption. But, since
161   2,     37  |           consolation withdrawn from them: this happens because their
162   2,     37  |           love, because I respond to them with the same love, with
163   2,     37  |       servant does his master, I pay them their wages according to
164   2,     37  |              do not reveal Myself to them, because secrets are revealed
165   2,     37  |            do not manifest Myself to them. If they, through displeasure
166   2,     37  |              will manifest Myself to them, as My Truth said in these
167   2,     37  |             can be no secret between them, wherefore My Truth said: '
168   2,     38  |             God. It is manifested to them by the many and diverse
169   2,     38  |          spirit of prophecy, showing them the things of the future.
170   2,     40  |          which My Truth had promised them. They remained barred in
171   2,     41  |          fellows, that you may do to them that which you cannot do
172   2,     41  |             evil thoughts, replacing them with the stones of virtues,
173   3,      2  |        tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically,
174   3,      2  |              prayers without joining them to mental prayer, that is
175   3,      2  |            have hardly begun to know them with grief and true contrition,
176   3,      2  |             has not time to complete them, she ought not on that account
177   3,      4  |            the world, to announce to them the truth, for the glory
178   3,      5  |            of your intellect and see them running by the Bridge of
179   3,      5  |            were finite, the fruit of them which you receive in Baptism,
180   3,      6  |              that My mercy shines in them, in that, in the abundance
181   3,      6  |      abundance of My charity, I give them time, and do not order the
182   3,      6  |            earth to open and swallow them up on account of their sins.
183   3,      6  |          their sins. I even wait for them, and command the earth to
184   3,      6  |            command the earth to give them of her fruits, the sun to
185   3,      6  |              fruits, the sun to give them light and warmth, and the
186   3,      6  |            and the sky to move above them. And in all things created
187   3,      6  |          things created and made for them, I use My charity and mercy,
188   3,      6  |          servants; for they prove in them the virtues of patience
189   3,      6  |        patience and charity, causing them to suffer humbly and offer
190   3,      6  |           and injuries, thus turning them into My praise and glory. ~
191   3,      7  |           their End. They augment in them the virtues in diverse ways,
192   3,      7  |             diverse ways, exercising them with many temptations and
193   3,      7  |   temptations and vexations, causing them to injure one another and
194   3,      7  |             for the motive of making them receive injury or be deprived
195   3,      7  |        property, but only to deprive them of charity. But in thinking
196   3,      7  |            My servants, they fortify them, proving in them the virtues
197   3,      7  |             fortify them, proving in them the virtues of patience,
198   3,      7  |             My Truth is fulfilled in them, which Truth created them
199   3,      7  |            them, which Truth created them for the praise and glory
200   3,      7  |           Eternal Truth, have placed them as instruments to exercise
201   3,      7  |             My Truth is fulfilled in them, that is, that they render
202   3,     10  |  conversation of mortals, and seeing them so miserably offending Me.
203   3,     10  |          their life insupportable to them. Nevertheless, as their
204   3,     10  |     contented to remain, if I desire them to remain, with their pain,
205   3,     10  |              many tribulations is to them a relief in the desire which
206   3,     10  |            mitigates the pain caused them by their desire to quit
207   3,     10  |             Me; but when I permit to them many tribulations they rejoice,
208   3,     10  |       Wherefore were it possible for them to have virtue without toil
209   3,     11  |            of the Scriptures, but of them who heard them, and did
210   3,     11  |    Scriptures, but of them who heard them, and did not understand
211   3,     11  |               and did not understand them. Wherefore I sent this light
212   3,     11  |      sacrifices, ravishing away from them their darkness, give the
213   3,     11  |              Holy Spirit, which gave them that supernatural light.
214   3,     11  |       obedience of the Word, showing them the perfection of obedience,
215   3,     11  |             if My Truth would say to them -- The Law is now imperfect,
216   3,     11  |           much in it that appears to them gross and idiotic. And,
217   3,     11  |           offer the light that is in them, with hunger and desire
218   3,     14  |             having manfully received them all, not choosing them according
219   3,     14  |      received them all, not choosing them according to her own tastes,
220   3,     14  |            own tastes, but accepting them according to Mine, and not
221   3,     14  |            only, as I said, enduring them with patience, but sustaining
222   3,     14  |             patience, but sustaining them with joy, she counts it
223   3,     14  |            you should therefore love them with the same pure love
224   3,     14  |             in so far as she desires them by reason of her appetite
225   3,     15  |          become infinite, but I call them infinite, on account of
226   3,     15  |            how the heart distributes them to the eye, having gathered
227   3,     15  |             the eye, having gathered them in its own fiery desire.
228   3,     15  |          different sorrows may cause them. I have now told you the
229   3,     16  |         falsehood; that which I give them for life, to have been given
230   3,     16  |             life, to have been given them for death. They condemn
231   3,     16  |              judgment may suggest to them. The unfortunate creatures
232   3,     16  |           earth is unable to satisfy them. They are insatiable and
233   3,     16  |          such satiety cannot content them, because they (who are infinite
234   3,     16  |           creatures, and not beneath them, and he cannot be satisfied
235   3,     19  |             why this would happen to them? Because they have placed
236   3,     20  |          which I permit to happen to them with due reverence, as I
237   3,     20  |              stumbling-blocks caused them by the world, and of the
238   3,     20  |              circumstance happens to them. And inasmuch as they deem
239   3,     20  |           but as a means which helps them to stay their own will,
240   3,     20  |               and no one scandalizes them, for they have cut away
241   3,     20  |             and the Devil can attack them, slide under their feet,
242   3,     20  |         temptations, and do not hurt them, for they remain attached
243   3,     20  |         should you consider, both in them and in yourself. And, if
244   3,     20  |          rose, that is to say, offer them to Me, with holy compassion.
245   3,     20  |           because you will recognize them in the case about which
246   3,     22  |             of Your Name, when I see them running on this sweet and
247   3,     22  |       Sweetest Love, that not one of them may be taken from me by
248   3,     22  |            until now, that You unite them, and of two bodies make
249   3,     22  |              daughter, may behave to them with due reverence and holy
250   3,     23  |            to be negligent in giving them the benefit of your prayers,
251   3,     24  |       dignity in which I have placed them. And, since one thing is
252   3,     24  |            of priests, having placed them where they are through My
253   3,     24  |          salvation, so that, through them, the Blood of the humble
254   3,     24  |              administered to you. To them have I given the Sun to
255   3,     24  |            Sun to administer, giving them the light of science and
256   3,     24  |              or even more, and light them in the flame, in each candle,
257   3,     27  |               and how God demands in them greater purity than in other
258   3,     27  |            anointed ones, and I call them My Christs, because I have
259   3,     27  |        Christs, because I have given them the office of administering
260   3,     27  |              to you, and have placed them like fragrant flowers in
261   3,     27  |   fellow-creatures, administering to them the Body and Blood of My
262   3,     27  |           charity; and I do not wish them to feed upon and wallow
263   3,     27  |             in that they do not give them an example of life, nor
264   3,     27  |            of life, nor care to draw them out of the hands of the
265   3,     27  |          Devil, nor to administer to them the Body and Blood of My
266   3,     28  |             that these have taken on them the condition of the Sun,
267   3,     28  |              Me. The Sun illuminates them and causes the earth of
268   3,     28  |             bear fruit, illuminating them with the light of their
269   3,     28  |            thing with Me, and I with them, as I narrated to you in
270   3,     28  |           most ardent love, shone in them, and in their subjects,
271   3,     28  |              light of discretion. In them, principally because they
272   3,     28  |           did justice to those under them, wishing to see them live
273   3,     28  |           under them, wishing to see them live virtuously, and correcting
274   3,     28  |           virtuously, and correcting them without any servile fear,
275   3,     28  |           therefore did they correct them, and did not let their members
276   3,     28  |            they charitably corrected them with the unction of benignity,
277   3,     28  |               Wherefore, those under them lived in holy, true fear,
278   3,     28  |           for My gardeners corrected them without any servile fear,
279   3,     28  |           that pearl which shines in them, and which gave peace and
280   3,     28  |          caused holy fear to be with them, and unity of hearts. And
281   3,     28  |             of self-love is alive in them, wherefore they bear perverted
282   3,     28  |            the faults of those under them; and they are deluded by
283   3,     28  |            have told you, because in them is no darkness of sin, or
284   3,     28  |               but was resplendent in them, wherefore they embraced
285   3,     28  |          supernatural grace given to them, of administering the Body
286   3,     28  |         continually over those under them, like real guardian angels,
287   3,     28  |        thoughts, and offering up for them before Me, sweet and amorous
288   3,     28  |              they govern those under them, and converse with them!
289   3,     28  |              them, and converse with them! With how much hope and
290   3,     28  |            fearing, or caring if for them and their subjects temporal
291   3,     28  |          anything should diminish to them, either spiritual or temporal. ~
292   3,     28  |           and earth fade away before them. With such fears as these,
293   3,     28  |            spiritual, caring not for them. But they, miserable, faithless,
294   3,     28  |            providence be measured to them. The miserable presumptuous
295   3,     28  |           had given My servants over them. This was because I responded
296   3,     28  |           life eternal I have placed them in the greatest dignity,
297   3,     28  |            dignity which I placed in them, and because this Treasure
298   3,     28  |              of souls, having placed them in so much excellency they
299   3,     28  |            themselves to die, to get them out of the hands of the
300   3,     28  |            with despair, and to give them more courage in exposing
301   3,     28  |           neighbors, and those under them. They drew the imperfect
302   3,     28  |            imperfect and infirm with them, as I told you, with true
303   3,     28  |           compassion, and correcting them and giving them penance
304   3,     28  |           correcting them and giving them penance for the sins they
305   3,     28  |             penance -- together with them. For through love, they
306   3,     28  |             nourishment. What caused them to do thus? The hunger and
307   3,     29  |       dignity in which I have placed them, having elected them for
308   3,     29  |          placed them, having elected them for My ministers, on account
309   3,     29  |              authority I do not wish them to be punished by the hand
310   3,     29  |         defect, for those who punish them offend Me miserably. But
311   3,     29  |              I wish seculars to hold them in due reverence, not for
312   3,     29  |         authority which I have given them. Wherefore this reverence
313   3,     29  |           subjects. I have appointed them to be in very truth your
314   3,     29  |            to which I have appointed them, how worthy they are of
315   3,     29  |            reverence you should hold them, for they are My beloved
316   3,     29  |         their hands. You should love them therefore by reason of the
317   3,     29  |         authority which I have given them. You know well that if a
318   3,     29  |             life of grace, receiving Them worthily (in spite of the
319   3,     29  |              defects there may be in them) through love of Me, the
320   3,     29  |            the Eternal God, who send them to you, and through love
321   3,     29  |             you, and you should hate them, and strive with love and
322   3,     29  |             holy prayer to re-clothe them, washing away their foulness
323   3,     29  |           say, that you should offer them before Me with tears and
324   3,     29  |         desire, that I may re-clothe them in My goodness, with the
325   3,     29  |          Know well that I wish to do them grace, if only they will
326   3,     29  |            the contrary I have given them to you, and appointed them
327   3,     29  |           them to you, and appointed them to be earthly angels and
328   3,     29  |           state, you should pray for them, and not judge them, leaving
329   3,     29  |              for them, and not judge them, leaving their judgment
330   3,     29  |             by your prayers, will do them mercy if they will only
331   3,     29  |               shall terribly condemn them at their last extremity,
332   3,     30  |            will which gladly endures them, seeing that they are ordained
333   3,     30  |        charity with his neighbor, to them is given the office of administering
334   3,     30  |            voluntary poverty, causes them now with great delight to
335   3,     30  |            of the demons do not give them trouble or any fear, because
336   3,     30  |              or any fear, because in them is not the poison of sin.
337   3,     30  |          There is no servile fear in them, but holy fear. Wherefore
338   3,     30  |             Holy Scripture they know them, so that they do not cause
339   3,     30  |            so that they do not cause them darkness or disquietude.
340   3,     31  |          told you, the Devil accuses them with great terror and darkness,
341   3,     31  |            despair. Oh! how hard for them is this battle, because
342   3,     31  |             battle, because it finds them disarmed, without the armor
343   3,     31  |              their pride not letting them understand the sweetness
344   3,     31  |            the Blood of which I made them ministers, but in themselves
345   3,     31  |            effect of Mercy, to cause them to hope therein during their
346   3,     31  |              although I do not grant them this, so that they should
347   3,     31  |             And nevertheless, I keep them in this hope so that at
348   3,     31  |        displeasing to Me and injures them much more than all the other
349   3,     31  |             sin is more dangerous to them and displeasing to Me, because
350   3,     31  |            they sometimes grieve for them, and if they grieve in the
351   3,     31  |             their grief will procure them mercy. But it is no fragility
352   3,     31  |    displeases Me so much that I wish them to hope in My mercy at the
353   3,     31  |            use this sweet trick with them, making them hope greatly
354   3,     31  |              trick with them, making them hope greatly in My mercy,
355   3,     31  |                    All this is given them by the fire and abyss of
356   3,     31  |         which their conscience gives them in the likeness of the Devil,
357   3,     31  |              of the Devil, reproving them in that they should have
358   3,     31  |           and that time which I gave them through love should have
359   3,     31  |         afterwards when you are with them they may render to you of
360   3,     31  |              felt towards nourishing them in virtue, giving them the
361   3,     31  |    nourishing them in virtue, giving them the example of your life
362   3,     31  |            of your life and striking them with the hand of mercy and
363   3,     31  |            for his conscience places them before him, together with
364   3,     31  |           receive for not fulfilling them; the more they knew of Holy
365   3,     31  |        ministry which I entrusted to them, appointing them to administer
366   3,     31  |        entrusted to them, appointing them to administer the sun of
367   3,     32  |              have from You, who give them to me through love, and
368   3,     32  |                     Ah me! You cause them to cry in order to hear
369   3,     32  |             salvation of souls. Give them then the bread of life,
370   3,     32  |           creatures, than in leaving them obstinate in their hardness
371   3,     32  |             their wills, and dispose them to wish for that for which
372   3,     32  |              and likeness. Re-create them to Grace in Your mercy and
373   4,      1  |              of obedience and placed them in the hands of My sweet
374   4,      1  |              from love, He possessed them all, but in a different
375   4,      1  |     obedience, and so closely united them together that one cannot
376   4,      1  |           the other. Either you have them both or you have neither.
377   4,      1  |           way, having first observed them Himself. He is the way,
378   4,      2  |               and what will prove to them, that they have lost it?
379   4,      3  |    disobedience, it is very hard for them to do so, on account of
380   4,      3  |              blindness that prevents them recognizing this treasure?
381   4,      3  |             pain, for it has seduced them from the way of Truth, leading
382   4,      3  |            the way of Truth, leading them along a way of lies, making
383   4,      3  |          along a way of lies, making them slaves and friends of the
384   4,      3  |            it truly. What has placed them in so blessed a state? The
385   4,      5  |             perfection, and to bring them to the port of salvation.
386   4,      5  |      temporal substance never failed them, but they had more than
387   4,      5  |           else, he chose poverty for them, so that they might not
388   4,      5  |           the body, he does not wish them to obscure their physical
389   4,      5  |              wherefore he imposed on them the third vow of continence,
390   4,      6  |              Holy Spirit, will steer them, and having thus shown you
391   4,      6  |            to or not, they cast from them the load of their riches,
392   4,      6  |          many other things happen to them because they have money
393   4,      6  |             to perfect observance of them, nor the wicked conversation
394   4,      6  |            appointed hatred to drive them out, and love to replace
395   4,      6  |             out, and love to replace them with her friends. Wherefore
396   4,      6  |      obedience causes him to fulfill them. Does the weight of obedience
397   4,      6  |              their sins, but to draw them out of their misery, for
398   4,      6  |             has in his heart towards them he would like to give them
399   4,      6  |           them he would like to give them the good which he possesses,
400   4,      6  |           means by which he can draw them out of the darkness of mortal
401   4,      6  |            among themselves which of them should be the greater, for
402   4,      7  |                                   In them is fulfilled the saying
403   4,      8  |              flying the occasions of them, but rather seeking them
404   4,      8  |             them, but rather seeking them in order to be able to accomplish
405   4,      8  |              tongue could not relate them. Oh! disobedience, which
406   4,      9  |             it were, so incarnate in them, that not only do they wish
407   4,      9  |            reason in what is ordered them by their superior, but they
408   4,     10  |          rather I caused you to make them in order to increase the
409   4,     10  |              I wish seculars to hold them, showing you the reason
410   4,     11  |          miserable sins, for through them I have hitherto served You
411 Lette,      0|              and tender love towards them, recommend themselves greatly,
412 Lette,      0|             and beg you to recommend them to the Prioress and all
413 Lette,      0|          faults and the pains due to them, and so it was done. After
414 Lette,      0|     promising me that, on account of them, You would use mercy with
415 Lette,      0|             sons, that I should love them with singular love and direct
416 Lette,      0|             singular love and direct them to You by the way of Life,
417 Lette,      0|             Life, but I have been to them nothing but a mirror of
418 Lette,      0|      weakness; I have had no care of them; I have not helped them
419 Lette,      0|              them; I have not helped them with continuous and humble
420 Lette,      0|           presence, nor have I given them sufficient examples of the
421 Lette,      0|             body, nor have I endured them with that burning desire
422 Lette,      0|             love with which You sent them to me. Alas! oh, my Love,
423 Lette,      0|       intelligence on the thought of them only or disposed my will
424 Lette,      0|            two now or again, passing them on from one to the other.
425 Lette,      0|             made great by hearing of them. I say no more. Recommend