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  1 Intro,      0|             at the hands of friends or foes. It is at least certain
  2 Intro,      0|     personality who may awaken love or hatred, but cannot be passed
  3 Intro,      0|  illustrative of a course of policy or of the character of those
  4 Intro,      0|       abstraction such as "Capital" or the "Rights of Man" has
  5 Intro,      0|          than by the superior skill or strength of an individual
  6 Intro,      0|   conscience of Christendom solely, or even primarily, as an arbitrary
  7 Intro,      0|             we have the millionaire or the philanthropist. Now
  8 Intro,      0|          message was one of warning or correction to the hierarchy.
  9 Intro,      0|             out of their hermitages or cloisters, and with lips
 10 Intro,      0|           the control of inquisitor or guards; the Pope had to
 11 Intro,      0|             the slopes of the hills or with its crenellated wall
 12 Intro,      0|           his ideal of an Augustine or a Loyola, or of the heroic
 13 Intro,      0|           an Augustine or a Loyola, or of the heroic courage of
 14 Intro,      0|      saintly babies play at hermits or monasteries instead of the
 15 Intro,      0|             frequently carry her up or down without letting her
 16 Intro,      0|        their houses on some pretext or other. Sent one morning
 17 Intro,      0|            order to carry something or give some message from their
 18 Intro,      0|           ever led so active a life or have succeeded in leaving
 19 Intro,      0|         them, in the condemned cell or in the hospital ward. She
 20 Intro,      0|            Ubi Petrus ibi Ecclesia, or, as the Avignonese doctors
 21 Intro,      0|           in the cause of learning, or the energy with which he
 22 Intro,      0|            numerous. The Fraticelli or Spiritual Franciscans, although
 23 Intro,      0|         that of any heretics before or since. It amounted to belief
 24 Intro,      0|            preoccupations. For good or ill, it had come to be essential
 25 Intro,      0|            God for his own pleasure or profit! The special snares
 26 Intro,      0|             Christian life, healthy or parasitic, is treated of,
 27 Intro,      0|        hands of a class of writers, or rather purveyors, well-intentioned
 28 Intro,      0|        printed of the Dialogo. Once or twice I have preferred the
 29   1,      1  |          such a taste of the truth, or so brilliant a light therefrom,
 30   1,      1  |       whether in doctrine, example, or prayer, to her neighbor,
 31   1,      3  |           sufficient for punishment or recompense without the perpetual
 32   1,      3  |             which the soul endures, or can endure, in this life,
 33   1,      3  |         grieve when they offend Me, or see Me offended, their every
 34   1,      3  |             pain, whether spiritual or corporeal, from wherever
 35   1,      3  |         valid, either as punishment or recompense, without the
 36   1,      4  |      however, a pain which afflicts or dries up the soul, but one
 37   1,      4  |      receiving it humbly in greater or less degree, according to
 38   1,      4  |           Infinite Good, in greater or less degree, according to
 39   1,      4  |            to Me with humble voice, or without continual prayers
 40   1,      5  |             for Me in whatever mode or circumstance I may send
 41   1,      6  |           approaches him, with love or in conversation, is poisoned. ~
 42   1,      6  |             committed either secret or open. A secret sin is when
 43   1,      7  |       without the medium of herself or of any advantage accruing
 44   1,      7  |          world in general, and more or less in a particular case
 45   1,      7  |          faith, to another prudence or temperance, or patience,
 46   1,      7  |             prudence or temperance, or patience, to another fortitude.
 47   1,      7  |           from Me. Whether man will or no, he cannot help making
 48   1,      8  |         does not diminish the faith or the hope of him who has
 49   1,      8  |             not faithfully love Me, or because he does not constantly
 50   1,      8  |            who, whether by injuries or by flattery, constantly
 51   2,      1  |           is, with an exterior act, or with diverse and varied
 52   2,      1  |           the virtue of discretion, or any fruit of life, if it
 53   2,      1  |         that of a noble, a prelate, or a servant, if he have this
 54   2,      3  |           joined with the affection or love, in which case it would
 55   2,      3  |             placed in penance only, or in any exterior corporal
 56   2,      3  |         action which she has begun, or, as may frequently happen,
 57   2,      3  |          will be obliged, some time or other, to leave them, and
 58   2,      3  |          the whole world from Hell, or to obtain one great virtue,
 59   2,      3  |            not be a rightly ordered or discreet love, but rather
 60   2,      5  |     increase in herself grace, more or less, according as it pleases
 61   2,      5  |          make choice either of good or evil, according as it pleases
 62   2,      5  |       glorious Blood, that no demon or creature can constrain him
 63   2,      9  |           no debt that You owed us, or need that You had of us?
 64   2,     10  |           performs, whether in deed or thought, are pleasing, and
 65   2,     11  |         which he has to leave them, or through my disposition,
 66   2,     12  |             without any refreshment or advantage. Wherefore, through
 67   2,     13  |            road cannot be destroyed or taken away from him who
 68   2,     15  |           which can have no feeling or movement of itself, but
 69   2,     17  |          not be cruel to themselves or to their neighbor; on the
 70   2,     17  |            happiness out of his own or others' good. How will these
 71   2,     20  |            saints who, by one thing or another, have been tormented.
 72   2,     22  |            deprived of Me, and more or less according to the gravity
 73   2,     24  |         great that they cannot will or desire any good, but they
 74   2,     24  |           he did not do out of love or compassion for his brothers,
 75   2,     24  |           good, either for My honor or their salvation, because,
 76   2,     25  |           good. Not that her vessel or theirs can increase, nor
 77   2,     25  |            with Mine, that a father or a mother seeing their son,
 78   2,     25  |            mother seeing their son, or a son seeing his father
 79   2,     25  |             a son seeing his father or his mother in Hell, do not
 80   2,     25  |          not seem to them terrible, or full of hatred, because
 81   2,     26  |           pleased. Every work, good or bad, is done by means of
 82   2,     26  |            Devil without any remedy or hope -- each one being wrapped
 83   2,     27  |          final place either of pain or of glory, before she is
 84   2,     27  |          one should fear any battle or temptation of the Devil
 85   2,     27  |            arbitration, can hold it or leave it, according as you
 86   2,     27  |            if they saw that no good or pleasure to themselves were
 87   2,     27  |          appearance of some benefit or good; and he gives to everyone
 88   2,     27  |             blinded and do not know or see the Truth, as, you know,
 89   2,     28  |           life without pain, bodily or mental. Bodily pain My servants
 90   2,     28  |      tribulations on man's account, or infirmity, or poverty, or
 91   2,     28  |            s account, or infirmity, or poverty, or change of worldly
 92   2,     28  |           or infirmity, or poverty, or change of worldly condition,
 93   2,     28  |        change of worldly condition, or loss of children, or of
 94   2,     28  |     condition, or loss of children, or of other much loved creatures (
 95   2,     30  |          other, as I told you, good or evil, according to the pleasure
 96   2,     30  |            with the light of reason or without it. Your reason
 97   2,     30  |           said: 'When there are two or three or more gathered together
 98   2,     30  |         When there are two or three or more gathered together in
 99   2,     32  |             in the most perfect way or by dwelling in the life
100   2,     32  |         arise, either of prosperity or adversity, and to persevere
101   2,     33  |         fatigue causes him to stop, or pleasure, and he does not
102   2,     33  |       together, as it is said, 'two or three or more.' ~
103   2,     33  |           it is said, 'two or three or more.' ~
104   2,     33  |                 Why is it said 'two or three or more'? Because
105   2,     33  |            is it said 'two or three or more'? Because there are
106   2,     33  |         says then: 'If there be two or three or more gathered together
107   2,     33  |            If there be two or three or more gathered together in
108   2,     33  |            above transitory things, or, if he will still hold them,
109   2,     33  |           moved by the tribulations or delights of the world, will
110   2,     33  |          with disordinate merriment or with impatience, because
111   2,     36  |          one could go by the Bridge or come out of the river without
112   2,     37  |           view to their own profit, or the delight and pleasure
113   2,     37  |           they see their own profit or consolation withdrawn from
114   2,     37  |            from fear of punishment, or to embrace virtue from the
115   2,     37  |             no thought for herself, or, at least, in the moment
116   2,     40  |       incapable she is of stability or perseverance, thus cutting
117   2,     41  |         neighbor, whether spiritual or temporal, should be drunk
118   2,     41  |           his love does not satisfy or return his love, or when
119   2,     41  |         satisfy or return his love, or when he sees the beloved
120   2,     41  | conversation turned aside from him, or himself deprived of consolation,
121   2,     41  |            deprived of consolation, or another loved more than
122   3,      1  |            note well) for obedience or charity's sake. For no other
123   3,      2  |           the illusion of the Devil or her own fragility, that
124   3,      2  |           on account of any thought or movement coming from her
125   3,      2  |           coming from her own body, or of the words of any creature.
126   3,      2  |             food strengthens little or much, according to the desire
127   3,      2  |           he receives sacramentally or virtually. He receives sacramentally
128   3,      2  |             sins, either in general or in particular, without also
129   3,      2  |             you to afflict yourself or to lament your sins.' And
130   3,      2  |             flash of self-knowledge or of contrition for sin, sometimes
131   3,      2  |         that account to be troubled or suffer annoyance and confusion
132   3,      2  |         arrange as to say it before or after My visitation, so
133   3,      2  |        means of holy prayer, little or much, according to the affection
134   3,      2  |            are they. Although vocal or mental prayer can be understood
135   3,      2  |            may contribute, by words or deeds, towards the salvation
136   3,      2  |        whether performed in oneself or in one's neighbor, with
137   3,      6  |           to GOD, whether they will or no. ~
138   3,      6  |         whether worldly people will or no, they render glory and
139   3,      6  |             that, whether they will or no, worldly people render
140   3,      7  |          making them receive injury or be deprived of their property,
141   3,     10  |         reward not their well-doing or that the sacrifice of their
142   3,     11  |         perfect light, to the gross or subtle mind; and everyone
143   3,     11  |          according as he is capable or disposed to know Me, for
144   3,     11  |         needed it for his salvation or that of others, or for the
145   3,     11  |        salvation or that of others, or for the exposition of the
146   3,     11  |          whether she be in the body or out of it; and tastes the
147   3,     12  |          not know their Benefactor, or the affection of the love
148   3,     14  |            guilt and grief are more or less heavy, according to
149   3,     14  |      desires spiritual consolations or loves some creature spiritually. (
150   3,     14  |            loves, that is, internal or external consolation, the
151   3,     14  |             and not for any penalty or loss due to herself; for
152   3,     14  |        advantage, whether spiritual or temporal, but loving him
153   3,     15  |           to no longer yearn for Me or love her neighbor, for love
154   3,     15  |         indeed, though without pain or physical weeping, for physical
155   3,     16  |          they will not allow to see or know the Truth. The second
156   3,     16  |            action which he may see, or for a word he may hear,
157   3,     16  |          and he cannot be satisfied or content except in something
158   3,     17  |         which I fear that they are, or may become, stumbling-blocks
159   3,     17  |           serving You, comes to me, or to some other servant of
160   3,     17  |          and the other in darkness? Or, supposing I should see
161   3,     18  |          her intellect, cannot hear or know My Truth, wherefore
162   3,     18  |            know the evil of her sin or its cause, and therefore
163   3,     18  |          and therefore cannot avoid or hate it. ~
164   3,     18  |             virtue, she cannot love or desire either Me, who am
165   3,     18  |          who am the Essential Good, or virtue, which I have given
166   3,     19  |          acquired through My Grace, or anxiously strive to attain
167   3,     19  |              and not these battles, or these temptations of the
168   3,     20  |         Father, not shunning labors or insults or withdrawing on
169   3,     20  |          shunning labors or insults or withdrawing on account of
170   3,     20  |         account of your ingratitude or ignorance of so great a
171   3,     20  |    ignorance of so great a benefit, or because of the persecutions
172   3,     20  |           persecutions of the Jews, or on account of the insults,
173   3,     20  |        consolation either spiritual or temporal, but, like one
174   3,     20  |           no reward, either from Me or from creatures, because
175   3,     20  |             so that it may not seek or wish anything else than
176   3,     20  |       himself judge of My servants, or of any rational creature,
177   3,     20  |    judgments, either on My servants or the servants of the world,
178   3,     20  |           either for their own sake or that of others. That is
179   3,     20  |          him who caused the injury, or him who received it, because
180   3,     20  |      anything that you may see done or said by any creature whatsoever,
181   3,     20  |      whatsoever, either to yourself or to others. My will alone
182   3,     20  |             should see evident sins or defects, draw out of those
183   3,     20  |           scandalized, either in Me or in your neighbor. Otherwise
184   3,     20  |       deprives a man of grace, more or less according to the gravity
185   3,     20  |             everything which I give or permit to happen to you,
186   3,     21  |            feeling pain in herself, or in others. In herself, through
187   3,     22  |         being deceived by the Devil or ourselves! What moved you
188   3,     22  |         judgment on their neighbor, or causing him any scandal
189   3,     22  |             causing him any scandal or murmuring. And I pray You,
190   3,     23  |           not sin through ignorance or negligence; for a fault
191   3,     23  |       desires, but do not you fail, or they either, in your hope
192   3,     24  |         that He cannot be separated or divided from Me, as in the
193   3,     24  |         Spirit from Me, the Father, or from Him, the Son; for He
194   3,     24  |             Body without the Blood, or the Blood or the Body without
195   3,     24  |             the Blood, or the Blood or the Body without the Soul
196   3,     24  |             nature, either by death or from any other cause. So
197   3,     24  |          everyone participates more or less in this light, according
198   3,     24  |       weighing an ounce, others two or six ounces, or a pound,
199   3,     24  |           others two or six ounces, or a pound, or even more, and
200   3,     24  |             six ounces, or a pound, or even more, and light them
201   3,     24  |          each candle, whether large or small, is the whole light,
202   3,     24  |        inside it, which cannot burn or receive light, if you have
203   3,     24  |          that the soul becomes more or less lighted according to
204   3,     24  |  imperfection of yours who receive, or of the minister; but you
205   3,     24  |             receives the Sacrament, or by any defect which may
206   3,     24  |           which may be in the soul, or by any defect of him who
207   3,     24  |         cannot be defiled, divided, or diminished in any way, nor
208   3,     27  |             darkness of mortal sin, or defile the face of their
209   3,     27  |        wallow in the mire of filth, or to be inflated by pride,
210   3,     27  |            seeking great prelacies, or to be cruel to themselves
211   3,     27  |           to be cruel to themselves or to their fellow-creatures,
212   3,     28  |         warmth, and color of grace, or none at all. A man in mortal
213   3,     28  |         reproof and penance, little or much, according to the graveness
214   3,     28  |        wound. So, were the prelate, or any other lord having subjects,
215   3,     28  |         fear to lose their position or their temporal goods, or
216   3,     28  |            or their temporal goods, or their prelacy, they do not
217   3,     28  |            own sensitive self-love, or by their desire for lordship
218   3,     28  |            others, because the same or greater ones are their own.
219   3,     28  |         them is no darkness of sin, or of ignorance, because they
220   3,     28  |            does not desire lordship or prelacy will not fear to
221   3,     28  |             and cared not for scorn or villainies, or the detractions
222   3,     28  |            for scorn or villainies, or the detractions of men,
223   3,     28  |             the detractions of men, or insult, or opprobrium, or
224   3,     28  |      detractions of men, or insult, or opprobrium, or pain, or
225   3,     28  |           or insult, or opprobrium, or pain, or torment. ~
226   3,     28  |             or opprobrium, or pain, or torment. ~
227   3,     28  |           holy Church, not fearing, or caring if for them and their
228   3,     28  |           to them, either spiritual or temporal. ~
229   3,     28  |           if he thinks by his labor or solicitude to keep it, because
230   3,     28  |             Cross, not fleeing from or refusing any labor, but
231   3,     29  |      priests, whether they are good or bad. ~
232   3,     30  |         just man's death is greater or less according to the perfection
233   3,     30  |      whether the stranger be friend or enemy. To a friend, that
234   3,     30  |         aspect causes him no terror or fear, as it would do to
235   3,     30  |         love in any fellow-creature or in any created thing; having
236   3,     30  |             have not been negligent or ignorant, but have solicitously
237   3,     30  |            do not give them trouble or any fear, because in them
238   3,     30  |             not cause them darkness or disquietude. So thus they
239   3,     31  |            you have given prelacies or any charge of souls unjustly
240   3,     31  |            the Devil causes no harm or fear, for fear and harm
241   3,     31  |           on that account to do so, or that their sins are excused
242   3,     32  |            man knows not how to ask or desire as much as You can
243   3,     32  |             should ever grow weary, or my eyes fail through tears,
244   3,     32  |    wherefore You can not destroy it or refuse it to him who asks
245   4,      1  |             of grace and truly love or not. Wherefore charity,
246   4,      1  |           Either you have them both or you have neither. This virtue
247   4,      1  |         enlightened cannot stumble, or be caused to fall, without
248   4,      2  |             that you cannot observe or transgress one without observing
249   4,      2  |    transgress one without observing or transgressing all. He who
250   4,      2  |           mortal sin, you can walk? or that without a key you can
251   4,      2  |        without wearing this girdle, or fastening the key to it
252   4,      2  |             a little extra fatigue, or mental or corporal tribulation,
253   4,      2  |            extra fatigue, or mental or corporal tribulation, and
254   4,      3  |             longer in such darkness or cold, but observe obedience
255   4,      4  |         obedience in holy religion, or, without entering religion,
256   4,      5  |             afterwards turned back, or remained in the order with
257   4,      5  |         necessities either temporal or spiritual, for if he is
258   4,      5  |       possessions, either privately or in community, as a sign
259   4,      5  |       continence, either in thought or deed; so that he has rigged
260   4,      5  |            another, yet all perfect or imperfect live well in this
261   4,      6  |          neck; whether they wish to or not, they cast from them
262   4,      6  |          not constrain his appetite or strip himself of temporal
263   4,      6  |        either the nurse of humility or her sister, self-contempt,
264   4,      6  |            nobles, without watching or prayer. This and many other
265   4,      6  |             if sometimes from shame or through lack of means they
266   4,      6  |             is that whether he will or no he should not leave the
267   4,      6  |            does not care to examine or judge the will of his superior,
268   4,      6  |          humble duties of the order or to endure the mockeries,
269   4,      6  |        which are often cast at him, or to be held at little worth?
270   4,      6  |       whether they be with just men or with sinners, through his
271   4,      6  |      examine by reason the thoughts or opinions of his heart, but
272   4,      6  |           he recites vocal prayers, or busies himself with some
273   4,      6  |       thieves will come to rob him, or that rust or moths will
274   4,      6  |            to rob him, or that rust or moths will corrupt his garments;
275   4,      6  |           obedience in his own way, or to choose his time or place,
276   4,      6  |          way, or to choose his time or place, but prefers the way
277   4,      6  |       remember the injuries, pains, or blows inflicted on him by
278   4,      6  |          him without anger, hatred, or rancor, but with meekness
279   4,      6  |           the pricks of their order or superior, exalted by Me,
280   4,      7  |            and generous, not narrow or double. A soul wounded by
281   4,      7  |      different. She does not serve, or act towards her neighbor
282   4,      7  |           never falls into trouble, or the affliction of sadness,
283   4,      7  |          the affliction of sadness, or jars with obedience, remains
284   4,      8  |             to obey either by force or by love, and it would have
285   4,      8  |           observing the regulations or customs of the order, nor
286   4,      8  |         good religious in the ship, or that he is in danger of
287   4,      8  |          using the leaves of smooth or rough words, speaking irreverently
288   4,      8  |            think of laying a table, or of providing food for himself
289   4,      9  |      according to the work he does, or the length of time for which
290   4,      9  |             those who went at prime or at tierce, and those who
291   4,      9  |      rewarded not according to time or work, but according to the
292   4,      9  |             for necessity, charity, or obedience. I say this in
293   4,      9  |            choir, in the refectory, or his cell? By obedience,
294   4,      9  |         good which no one can value or understand, for, being the
295   4,     10  |             Me with anxious desire, or rather I caused you to make
296 Lette,      0|          bed. Thence, after an hour or two, she would arise afresh,
297 Lette,      0|             Sunday, about two hours or more before dawn, a great
298 Lette,      0|            given in general to all, or those which Your goodness
299 Lette,      0|           examples of the good life or the warnings of salutary
300 Lette,      0|            the thought of them only or disposed my will to love
301 Lette,      0|              were able to catch one or two now or again, passing
302 Lette,      0|             to catch one or two now or again, passing them on from