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6001 4, 9 | everything, if you open the eye of the intellect, you 6002 4, 9 | if you open the eye of the intellect, you will find 6003 4, 9 | you will find shown forth the excellence of this virtue. 6004 4, 9 | should be abandoned for the sake of obedience. If you 6005 4, 9 | your body was raised from the earth, and an obedience 6006 4, 9 | yourself to arise, to fulfill the obedience imposed on you, 6007 4, 9 | may see how prompt I wish the obedience of My servants 6008 4, 9 | is to Me. Everything that the obedient man does is a source 6009 4, 9 | serves. How is he guided in the choir, in the refectory, 6010 4, 9 | guided in the choir, in the refectory, or his cell? 6011 4, 9 | cell? By obedience, with the light of the most holy faith, 6012 4, 9 | obedience, with the light of the most holy faith, with which 6013 4, 9 | himself with self-hatred to the arms of his order and superior. 6014 4, 9 | Reposing with obedience in the ship, allowing himself to 6015 4, 9 | superior, he has navigated the tempestuous sea of this 6016 4, 9 | disordinate fear. And what is the food of this spouse obedience? 6017 4, 9 | and knowing My Truth in the Incarnate Word. What does 6018 4, 9 | Word. What does she drink? The Blood, in which the Word 6019 4, 9 | drink? The Blood, in which the Word has shown her, My Truth, 6020 4, 9 | shown her, My Truth, and the ineffable love which I have 6021 4, 9 | which I have for her, and the obedience imposed on Him 6022 4, 9 | becomes inebriated with the love and obedience of the 6023 4, 9 | the love and obedience of the Word, losing herself and 6024 4, 9 | tasting Me by love, with the light of faith in holy obedience. ~ 6025 4, 9 | The obedient man speaks words 6026 4, 9 | is to say, eternal life, the vision of peace, and of 6027 4, 9 | eternal tranquillity and rest, the inestimable good which no 6028 4, 9 | or understand, for, being the infinite good, it cannot 6029 4, 9 | vessel, which, dipped into the sea, does not comprehend 6030 4, 9 | sea, does not comprehend the whole sea, but only that 6031 4, 9 | quantity which it contains. The sea alone contains itself. 6032 4, 9 | alone contains itself. So I, the Sea Pacific, am He who alone 6033 4, 9 | I rejoice, and this joy, the good which I have in Myself, 6034 4, 9 | and with all, according to the measure of each. I do not 6035 4, 9 | and knows My goodness in the measure in which it is given 6036 4, 9 | given to him. Thus, then, the obedient man, with the light 6037 4, 9 | the obedient man, with the light of faith in the truth 6038 4, 9 | with the light of faith in the truth burning in the furnace 6039 4, 9 | in the truth burning in the furnace of charity, anointed 6040 4, 9 | humility, inebriated with the Blood, in company with his 6041 4, 9 | enduring perseverance, and all the other virtues (that is, 6042 4, 9 | other virtues (that is, with the fruit of the virtues), receives 6043 4, 9 | that is, with the fruit of the virtues), receives his end 6044 4, 10 | is a brief repetition of the entire book. ~ 6045 4, 10 | daughter, satisfied from the beginning to the end your 6046 4, 10 | satisfied from the beginning to the end your desire concerning 6047 4, 10 | them in order to increase the fire of My love in your 6048 4, 10 | you how you might come to the knowledge of it through 6049 4, 10 | knowledge of it through the knowledge of yourself and 6050 4, 10 | yourself and Me, through the light of faith. The second 6051 4, 10 | through the light of faith. The second request you made 6052 4, 10 | that I should do mercy to the world. In the third you 6053 4, 10 | do mercy to the world. In the third you prayed for the 6054 4, 10 | the third you prayed for the mystical body of the holy 6055 4, 10 | for the mystical body of the holy Church, that I would 6056 4, 10 | sin committed against Me, the Infinite Good, unless it 6057 4, 10 | unless it is united with the desire of the soul and contrition 6058 4, 10 | united with the desire of the soul and contrition of the 6059 4, 10 | the soul and contrition of the heart. How this is to be 6060 4, 10 | that I wish to do mercy to the world, proving to you that 6061 4, 10 | special attribute, for through the mercy and the inestimable 6062 4, 10 | for through the mercy and the inestimable love which I 6063 4, 10 | I had for man, I sent to the earth the Word, My only-begotten 6064 4, 10 | man, I sent to the earth the Word, My only-begotten Son, 6065 4, 10 | represented to you under the figure of a Bridge, reaching 6066 4, 10 | earth to heaven, through the union of My divinity with 6067 4, 10 | three steps; that is, on the three powers of the soul. 6068 4, 10 | on the three powers of the soul. These three steps 6069 4, 10 | figures of your body -- the feet, the side, and the 6070 4, 10 | of your body -- the feet, the side, and the mouth -- by 6071 4, 10 | the feet, the side, and the mouth -- by which I also 6072 4, 10 | three states of soul -- the imperfect state, the perfect 6073 4, 10 | the imperfect state, the perfect state, and the most 6074 4, 10 | the perfect state, and the most perfect state, in which 6075 4, 10 | perfect state, in which the soul arrives at the excellence 6076 4, 10 | which the soul arrives at the excellence of unitive love. 6077 4, 10 | you clearly in each state the means of cutting away imperfection 6078 4, 10 | reaching perfection, and how the soul may know by which road 6079 4, 10 | road she is walking and of the hidden delusions of the 6080 4, 10 | the hidden delusions of the devil and of spiritual self-love. 6081 4, 10 | states I have also spoken of the three judgments which My 6082 4, 10 | delivers -- one in this life, the second at death on those 6083 4, 10 | you that they went under the Bridge by the Devil's road, 6084 4, 10 | went under the Bridge by the Devil's road, when I spoke 6085 4, 10 | their wretchedness. And the third is that of the last 6086 4, 10 | And the third is that of the last and universal judgment. 6087 4, 10 | who told you somewhat of the suffering of the damned 6088 4, 10 | somewhat of the suffering of the damned and the glory of 6089 4, 10 | suffering of the damned and the glory of the blessed, when 6090 4, 10 | damned and the glory of the blessed, when all shall 6091 4, 10 | my promise, that through the long endurance of My servants 6092 4, 10 | iniquities. And I have shown you the excellence of the ministers 6093 4, 10 | shown you the excellence of the ministers I have given her, 6094 4, 10 | ministers I have given her, and the reverence in which I wish 6095 4, 10 | to hold them, showing you the reason why their reverence 6096 4, 10 | not diminish on account of the sins of the latter, and 6097 4, 10 | on account of the sins of the latter, and how displeasing 6098 4, 10 | diminution of reverence; and of the virtue of those who live 6099 4, 10 | subject, I also touched on the excellence of the sacraments. 6100 4, 10 | touched on the excellence of the sacraments. And further 6101 4, 10 | further wishing you to know of the states of tears and whence 6102 4, 10 | proceed, I spoke to you on the subject and told you that 6103 4, 10 | that all tears issue from the fountain of the heart, and 6104 4, 10 | issue from the fountain of the heart, and pointed out their 6105 4, 10 | I told you not only of the four states of tears, but 6106 4, 10 | states of tears, but also of the fifth, which germinates 6107 4, 10 | that I would provide for the particular case of an individual; 6108 4, 10 | divine providence, from the first beginning of the world 6109 4, 10 | from the first beginning of the world until the end, giving 6110 4, 10 | beginning of the world until the end, giving you and permitting 6111 4, 10 | and manifested this with the blood of My only-begotten 6112 4, 10 | of My only-begotten Son, the Word. ~ 6113 4, 10 | and My promise to speak of the perfection of obedience 6114 4, 10 | perfection of obedience and the imperfection of disobedience; 6115 4, 10 | particular obedience, and of the perfect and imperfect, and 6116 4, 10 | religion, and of those in the world, explaining the condition 6117 4, 10 | in the world, explaining the condition of each distinctly 6118 4, 10 | distinctly to you, and of the peace given by obedience, 6119 4, 10 | given by obedience, and the war of disobedience, and 6120 4, 10 | of disobedience, and how the disobedient man is deceived, 6121 4, 10 | you how death came into the world by the disobedience 6122 4, 10 | death came into the world by the disobedience of Adam, and 6123 4, 10 | disobedience of Adam, and how I, the Eternal Father, supreme 6124 4, 10 | give you this conclusion of the whole matter, that in the 6125 4, 10 | the whole matter, that in the obedience of the only- begotten 6126 4, 10 | that in the obedience of the only- begotten Word, My 6127 4, 10 | first old man you contracted the infection of death, so all 6128 4, 10 | all of you who will take the key of obedience have contracted 6129 4, 10 | obedience have contracted the infection of the life of 6130 4, 10 | contracted the infection of the life of the new Man, sweet 6131 4, 10 | infection of the life of the new Man, sweet Jesus, of 6132 4, 10 | of whom I made a Bridge, the road to Heaven being broken. 6133 4, 10 | prayer I will do mercy to the world. Die to the world 6134 4, 10 | mercy to the world. Die to the world and hasten along this 6135 4, 10 | Beware that you never leave the cell of self-knowledge, 6136 4, 10 | cell preserve and spend the treasure which I have given 6137 4, 10 | doctrine of truth founded upon the living stone, sweet Christ 6138 4, 10 | and sweetest daughter, in the truth." ~ 6139 4, 11 | praising God, makes prayer for the whole world and for the 6140 4, 11 | the whole world and for the Holy Church, and commending 6141 4, 11 | Holy Church, and commending the virtue of faith brings this 6142 4, 11 | that soul, having seen with the eye of the intellect, and 6143 4, 11 | having seen with the eye of the intellect, and having known 6144 4, 11 | intellect, and having known by the light of holy faith the 6145 4, 11 | the light of holy faith the truth and excellence of 6146 4, 11 | ecstatic desire, gazed upon the divine majesty and gave 6147 4, 11 | You have not despised me, the work of Your hands, nor 6148 4, 11 | despised my desires; You, the Light, have not regarded 6149 4, 11 | regarded my living death; You, the Physician, have not been 6150 4, 11 | grave infirmities; You, the eternal Purity, have not 6151 4, 11 | Purity, have not considered the many miseries of which I 6152 4, 11 | I am full; You, who are the Infinite, have overlooked 6153 4, 11 | infinite evils and sins, and the many others which are in 6154 4, 11 | are in me. Having known the truth through Your clemency, 6155 4, 11 | found Your charity, and the love of my neighbor. What 6156 4, 11 | constrain You to illuminate the eye of my intellect with 6157 4, 11 | eye of my intellect with the light of faith, so that 6158 4, 11 | may know and understand the truth which You have manifested 6159 4, 11 | that my will may burn in the fire of Your charity, and 6160 4, 11 | blood given for love of the Blood, together with the 6161 4, 11 | the Blood, together with the key of obedience, I may 6162 4, 11 | obedience, I may unlock the door of Heaven. I ask this 6163 4, 11 | general and in particular, in the mystical body of the holy 6164 4, 11 | in the mystical body of the holy Church. I confess and 6165 4, 11 | which Godhead gave value to the Blood of Your Son, You, 6166 4, 11 | are a deep Sea, into which the deeper I enter the more 6167 4, 11 | which the deeper I enter the more I find, and the more 6168 4, 11 | enter the more I find, and the more I find the more I seek; 6169 4, 11 | find, and the more I find the more I seek; the soul cannot 6170 4, 11 | I find the more I seek; the soul cannot be satiated 6171 4, 11 | continually hungers after You, the eternal Trinity, desiring 6172 4, 11 | light in Your light. As the hart desires the spring 6173 4, 11 | light. As the hart desires the spring of living water, 6174 4, 11 | my soul desires to leave the prison of this dark body 6175 4, 11 | from my eyes? Melt at once the cloud of my body. The knowledge 6176 4, 11 | once the cloud of my body. The knowledge which You have 6177 4, 11 | constrains me to long to abandon the heaviness of my body, and 6178 4, 11 | and to give my life for the glory and praise of Your 6179 4, 11 | have tasted and seen with the light of the intellect in 6180 4, 11 | and seen with the light of the intellect in Your light, 6181 4, 11 | intellect in Your light, the abyss of You -- the eternal 6182 4, 11 | light, the abyss of You -- the eternal Trinity, and the 6183 4, 11 | the eternal Trinity, and the beauty of Your creature, 6184 4, 11 | are my Creator, and I am the work of Your hands, and 6185 4, 11 | hands, and I know through the new creation which You have 6186 4, 11 | which You have given me in the blood of Your Son, that 6187 4, 11 | that You are enamored of the beauty of Your workmanship. 6188 4, 11 | me than Yourself; You are the fire which ever burns without 6189 4, 11 | consume in Your heat all the soul's self-love; You are 6190 4, 11 | soul's self-love; You are the fire which takes away all 6191 4, 11 | illuminates supernaturally the eye of my intellect, clarifying 6192 4, 11 | my intellect, clarifying the light of faith so abundantly 6193 4, 11 | this light receives You -- the true light. By the Light 6194 4, 11 | You -- the true light. By the Light of faith I have acquired 6195 4, 11 | have acquired wisdom in the wisdom of the Word -- Your 6196 4, 11 | wisdom in the wisdom of the Word -- Your only-begotten 6197 4, 11 | Your only-begotten Son. In the light of faith I am strong, 6198 4, 11 | constant, and persevering. In the light of faith I hope, suffer 6199 4, 11 | suffer me not to faint by the way. This light, without 6200 4, 11 | in darkness, teaches me the road, and for this I said, 6201 4, 11 | have illuminated me with the light of holy faith. Of 6202 4, 11 | this light is a sea, for the soul revels in You, Eternal 6203 4, 11 | in You, Eternal Trinity, the Sea Pacific. The water of 6204 4, 11 | Trinity, the Sea Pacific. The water of the sea is not 6205 4, 11 | Sea Pacific. The water of the sea is not turbid, and causes 6206 4, 11 | turbid, and causes no fear to the soul, for she knows the 6207 4, 11 | the soul, for she knows the truth; it is a deep which 6208 4, 11 | sweet secrets, so that where the light of Your faith abounds, 6209 4, 11 | light of Your faith abounds, the soul is certain of what 6210 4, 11 | magic mirror into which You, the Eternal Trinity, bid me 6211 4, 11 | me gaze, holding it with the hand of love, that I may 6212 4, 11 | and Yourself in me through the union which You made of 6213 4, 11 | represent to myself You -- the Supreme and Infinite Good, 6214 4, 11 | are wisdom itself. You, the food of the angels, have 6215 4, 11 | itself. You, the food of the angels, have given Yourself 6216 4, 11 | fire of love to men; You, the garment which covers all 6217 4, 11 | all our nakedness, feed the hungry with Your sweetness. 6218 4, 11 | which You have given me with the light of holy faith, the 6219 4, 11 | the light of holy faith, the many and wonderful things 6220 4, 11 | to me, explaining to me the path of supreme perfection, 6221 4, 11 | light, and that I may be the mirror of a good and holy 6222 4, 11 | Because I did not see You with the glorious light of the holy 6223 4, 11 | with the glorious light of the holy faith; because the 6224 4, 11 | the holy faith; because the cloud of self-love darkened 6225 4, 11 | cloud of self-love darkened the eye of my intellect, and 6226 4, 11 | of my intellect, and You, the Eternal Trinity, have dissipated 6227 4, 11 | Trinity, have dissipated the darkness with Your light. 6228 4, 11 | special grace over and above the ordinary graces which You 6229 4, 11 | that of Your creatures -- the need of introspection. Having 6230 4, 11 | introspection. Having first given the grace to ask the question, 6231 4, 11 | first given the grace to ask the question, You reply to it, 6232 4, 11 | with true obedience and the light of holy faith, with 6233 Lette | Piero Canigiani, containing the Transit of the Seraphic 6234 Lette | containing the Transit of the Seraphic Virgin, Saint Catherine 6235 Lette | Sister Catherine Petriboni in the Monastery of San Piero a 6236 Lette | Monticelli near Florence. In the Name of Jesus Christ. ~ 6237 Lette, 0| Christ Jesus, and Sister in the holy memory of our blessed 6238 Lette, 0| feeble infant, orphaned by the death of so great a mother. 6239 Lette, 0| you to recommend them to the Prioress and all the sisters 6240 Lette, 0| to the Prioress and all the sisters that they may be 6241 Lette, 0| daughter, desire to know the end of our common mother, 6242 Lette, 0| eyes have seen, and what the dull senses of my soul have 6243 Lette, 0| thousands of souls, about the feast of the Circumcision, 6244 Lette, 0| souls, about the feast of the Circumcision, began to feel 6245 Lette, 0| alter her mode of life, the action of taking food for 6246 Lette, 0| her, that it was only with the greatest difficulty that 6247 Lette, 0| she swallowed nothing of the substance of the food, but 6248 Lette, 0| nothing of the substance of the food, but had the habit 6249 Lette, 0| substance of the food, but had the habit of rejecting it. Moreover, 6250 Lette, 0| Sexagesima Sunday, when, about the hour of vespers, at the 6251 Lette, 0| the hour of vespers, at the time of her prayer, she 6252 Lette, 0| longer in health. Towards the night of the following Monday, 6253 Lette, 0| health. Towards the night of the following Monday, just after 6254 Lette, 0| of time, and did not seem the same person as she who had 6255 Lette, 0| application of mind to prayer that the frequency of the humble 6256 Lette, 0| prayer that the frequency of the humble sighs and sorrowful 6257 Lette, 0| plaints which she exhaled from the depth of her heart appeared 6258 Lette, 0| communion, she arose from the earth in such a state that 6259 Lette, 0| vespers, finally returning to the house so worn out that she 6260 Lette, 0| were her exercises up till the third Sunday in Lent, when 6261 Lette, 0| succumbed, conquered by the innumerable sufferings, 6262 Lette, 0| and consumed her body, and the infinite afflictions of 6263 Lette, 0| infinite afflictions of the soul which she derived from 6264 Lette, 0| soul which she derived from the consideration of the sins 6265 Lette, 0| from the consideration of the sins which she saw being 6266 Lette, 0| committed against God, and from the dangers ever more grave 6267 Lette, 0| grave to which she knew the Holy Church to be exposed, 6268 Lette, 0| intolerable pains, from the soles of her feet to the 6269 Lette, 0| the soles of her feet to the crown of her head, to such 6270 Lette, 0| has given permission to the devils to torment this body 6271 Lette, 0| were to attempt to explain the patience which she practiced, 6272 Lette, 0| to consume itself until the Sunday before the Ascension; 6273 Lette, 0| until the Sunday before the Ascension; but by that time 6274 Lette, 0| picture, though I speak not of the face, which remained ever 6275 Lette, 0| breathed forth devotion, but of the bosom and limbs, in which 6276 Lette, 0| nothing could be seen but the bones, covered by the thinnest 6277 Lette, 0| but the bones, covered by the thinnest skin, and so feeble 6278 Lette, 0| and so feeble was she from the waist downwards that she 6279 Lette, 0| one side to another. In the night preceding the aforesaid 6280 Lette, 0| In the night preceding the aforesaid Sunday, about 6281 Lette, 0| that she was approaching the end. The whole family was 6282 Lette, 0| was approaching the end. The whole family was then called 6283 Lette, 0| Absolution for her faults and the pains due to them, and so 6284 Lette, 0| letting it fall and strike the bed. Then, changing her 6285 Lette, 0| me!" Finally she employed the remainder of the above-mentioned 6286 Lette, 0| employed the remainder of the above-mentioned time with 6287 Lette, 0| circumstance greatly mitigated the grief of her sons and daughters 6288 Lette, 0| were standing around in the affliction you can imagine. ~ 6289 Lette, 0| Catherine had been lying on the bosom of Mother Alessia 6290 Lette, 0| sit up, leaning against the same mother. In the meantime 6291 Lette, 0| against the same mother. In the meantime we had put before 6292 Lette, 0| and various pictures of the saints. She, however, fixed 6293 Lette, 0| however, fixed her eyes on the image of the cross set in 6294 Lette, 0| her eyes on the image of the cross set in it, and began 6295 Lette, 0| most profound feelings of the goodness of God, and while 6296 Lette, 0| general of all her sins in the sight of God, and, in particular, 6297 Lette, 0| my neighbor, while I, on the contrary, have fled from 6298 Lette, 0| myself and to consider solely the praise and glory of Your 6299 Lette, 0| and glory of Your Name in the salvation of souls, and 6300 Lette, 0| this food alone, taken from the table of the most holy Cross, 6301 Lette, 0| taken from the table of the most holy Cross, to comfort 6302 Lette, 0| and continuous prayers for the salvation of the whole world 6303 Lette, 0| prayers for the salvation of the whole world and for the 6304 Lette, 0| the whole world and for the reformation of the holy 6305 Lette, 0| and for the reformation of the holy Church, promising me 6306 Lette, 0| You would use mercy with the world, and give new beauty 6307 Lette, 0| have remained asleep in the bed of negligence. ~ 6308 Lette, 0| and direct them to You by the way of Life, but I have 6309 Lette, 0| them sufficient examples of the good life or the warnings 6310 Lette, 0| examples of the good life or the warnings of salutary doctrine. 6311 Lette, 0| Your innumerable gifts, the graces of such sweet torments 6312 Lette, 0| me for Your spouse, from the beginning of my childhood, 6313 Lette, 0| fixed my intelligence on the thought of them only or 6314 Lette, 0| need, and then, turning to the priest, said: "For the love 6315 Lette, 0| to the priest, said: "For the love of Christ crucified, 6316 Lette, 0| which I have confessed in the presence of God, and of 6317 Lette, 0| presence of God, and of all the others which I cannot remember." 6318 Lette, 0| done, she asked again for the plenary indulgence, saying 6319 Lette, 0| this as one an hungered for the Blood of Christ. So I did 6320 Lette, 0| keeping her eyes ever fixed on the crucifix, began afresh to 6321 Lette, 0| afresh to adore it with the greatest devotion, and to 6322 Lette, 0| and also on account of the grief with which I was laboring 6323 Lette, 0| which I was laboring and the anguish with which her throat 6324 Lette, 0| passing them on from one to the other. After this she turned 6325 Lette, 0| previously, she had made to the whole family, showing us 6326 Lette, 0| whole family, showing us the way of salvation and perfection, 6327 Lette, 0| and laying upon each of us the particular task which he 6328 Lette, 0| after her death. She now did the same to these others, begging 6329 Lette, 0| humbly pardon of all for the slight care which she seemed 6330 Lette, 0| and received many times the blessing of her most sorrowful 6331 Lette, 0| of tender affection was the spectacle of the mother, 6332 Lette, 0| affection was the spectacle of the mother, recommending herself 6333 Lette, 0| things did not distract the holy virgin from the fervor 6334 Lette, 0| distract the holy virgin from the fervor of her prayer; and, 6335 Lette, 0| began to pray especially for the Catholic Church, for which 6336 Lette, 0| resolutely confessed to be the true Pontiff, and strengthened 6337 Lette, 0| for that truth. Then, with the greatest fervor, she besought 6338 Lette, 0| her beloved children whom the Lord had given her, to love 6339 Lette, 0| alone, repeating many of the words which our Savior used, 6340 Lette, 0| used, when He recommended the disciples to the Father, 6341 Lette, 0| recommended the disciples to the Father, praying with such 6342 Lette, 0| not only our hearts, but the very stones might have been 6343 Lette, 0| broken. Finally, making the sign of the cross, she blessed 6344 Lette, 0| Finally, making the sign of the cross, she blessed us all, 6345 Lette, 0| thus continued in prayer to the end of her life for which 6346 Lette, 0| Blood!" Finally, after the example of the Savior, she 6347 Lette, 0| Finally, after the example of the Savior, she said: "Father, 6348 Lette, 0| bent her head, and gave up the ghost. ~ 6349 Lette, 0| Her transit occurred on the Sunday at the hour of Sext, 6350 Lette, 0| occurred on the Sunday at the hour of Sext, but we kept 6351 Lette, 0| kept her unburied until the hour of Compline on Tuesday, 6352 Lette, 0| During those three days the body was visited by crowds 6353 Lette, 0| tomb is visited devoutly by the faithful, like those of 6354 Lette, 0| faithful, like those of the other holy bodies which 6355 Lette, 0| granting many graces in the name of His blessed spouse, 6356 Lette, 0| no more. Recommend me to the Prioress and all the sisters, 6357 Lette, 0| to the Prioress and all the sisters, for I have, at 6358 Lette, 0| for I have, at present, the greatest need of the help 6359 Lette, 0| present, the greatest need of the help of prayer. May Almighty