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501 1, 4 | love, desire, and grief of My servants, since I am 502 1, 4 | since I am no despiser of their tears, and sweat, 503 1, 4 | them this love for the good of souls and grief for their 504 1, 4 | love, My love, and that of My servants. They do not 505 1, 4 | not, as others, remission of the penalty, but only of 506 1, 4 | of the penalty, but only of the guilt; because such 507 1, 4 | imperfectly the perfection of the desires of those who 508 1, 4 | perfection of the desires of those who offer them to 509 1, 4 | you, that is, by the light of conscience, and by other 510 1, 4 | vomit forth the corruption of their sins, and so receive 511 1, 4 | and so receive the gift of grace. ~ 512 1, 4 | they who are in a state of ordinary charity, wherefore, 513 1, 4 | receive it in the guise of correction, and do not resist 514 1, 4 | resist over much the clemency of the Holy Spirit, but, coming 515 1, 4 | Spirit, but, coming out of their sin, they receive 516 1, 4 | sin, they receive the life of grace. But if, like fools, 517 1, 4 | ignore Me and the labors of My servants done for them, 518 1, 4 | judgment, not through defect of mercy, nor through defect 519 1, 4 | mercy, nor through defect of him who implored the mercy 520 1, 4 | with which, with the hands of his free will, he has covered 521 1, 4 | say to you, that, in spite of his hardness of heart, he 522 1, 4 | in spite of his hardness of heart, he can use his free 523 1, 4 | time, praying for the Blood of My Son, and let him with 524 1, 4 | will receive the imprint of the Blood which has been 525 1, 4 | have known through the use of his intellect. This is the 526 1, 4 | memory with the delights of sin, and with the recollection 527 1, 4 | and with the recollection of shameful pride, avarice, 528 1, 4 | being also a persecutor of My servants), with these 529 1, 4 | contrition and displeasure of their guilt. Now, therefore, 530 1, 4 | also, they go to the pains of Purgatory, passing through 531 1, 4 | the second and last means of satisfaction. ~ 532 1, 4 | made, through the desire of the soul united to Me, who 533 1, 4 | according to the measure of love, obtained by the desire 534 1, 4 | by the desire and prayer of the recipient. Wherefore, 535 1, 4 | receive in himself the measure of My goodness. Labor, therefore, 536 1, 4 | therefore, to increase the fire of your desire, and let not 537 1, 4 | to you and to the father of your soul, whom I have given 538 1, 5 | death, for the salvation of souls, for the more the 539 1, 5 | Me she comes to know more of My truth, and the more she 540 1, 5 | and to punish the faults of others in you, and you did 541 1, 5 | love, light, and knowledge of the truth, since I have 542 1, 5 | you that, by the increase of love, grows grief and pain, 543 1, 5 | nothing to him who asks of Me in truth. Consider that 544 1, 5 | Consider that the love of divine charity is so closely 545 1, 5 | yourselves to be spouses of My Truth, and faithful children, 546 1, 5 | and faithful children, nor of the company of those who 547 1, 5 | children, nor of the company of those who relish the taste 548 1, 5 | those who relish the taste of My honor, and the salvation 549 1, 5 | honor, and the salvation of souls." ~ 550 1, 6 | defect is obtained by means of our neighbor. ~ 551 1, 6 | virtue is obtained by means of your neighbor, and likewise, 552 1, 6 | therefore, who stands in hatred of Me, does an injury to his 553 1, 6 | neighbor, by depriving him of the benefit of the prayers 554 1, 6 | depriving him of the benefit of the prayers and of the sweet 555 1, 6 | benefit of the prayers and of the sweet desires that he 556 1, 6 | him to Me. Thus, every act of help that he performs should 557 1, 6 | which he has through love of Me. And every evil also, 558 1, 6 | evil also, is done by means of his neighbor, for, if he 559 1, 6 | from the soul's deprivation of love of Me and her neighbor; 560 1, 6 | soul's deprivation of love of Me and her neighbor; whence, 561 1, 6 | whom does he evil? First of all to himself, and then 562 1, 6 | himself he does the injury of sin, which deprives him 563 1, 6 | sin, which deprives him of grace, and worse than this 564 1, 6 | debt, which he owes him, of love, with which he ought 565 1, 6 | ought to help him by means of prayer and holy desire offered 566 1, 6 | doctrine, and the example of good works, and in every 567 1, 6 | yourselves, without any passion of self-love; and he (a man 568 1, 6 | conceived pleasure in the idea of sin, and hatred of virtue, 569 1, 6 | idea of sin, and hatred of virtue, that is, pleasure 570 1, 6 | which has deprived him of the affection of love which 571 1, 6 | deprived him of the affection of love which he ought to have 572 1, 6 | other creatures in danger of death and damnation through 573 1, 6 | damnation through privation of grace, and so cruel is he 574 1, 6 | neither himself nor others of the love of virtue and hatred 575 1, 6 | himself nor others of the love of virtue and hatred of vice. 576 1, 6 | love of virtue and hatred of vice. Being thus cruel he 577 1, 6 | with not giving an example of virtue, the villain also 578 1, 6 | villain also usurps the office of the demons, tempting, according 579 1, 6 | causes him to seize the goods of others, robbing the poor 580 1, 6 | done by the arbitrary use of power, and at other times 581 1, 6 | Oh, miserable vice of cruelty, which will deprive 582 1, 6 | the man who practices it of all mercy, unless he turn 583 1, 6 | impurity against the person of his neighbor, by which he 584 1, 6 | becomes a brute beast full of stench, and in this case 585 1, 6 | the neighbor, through love of one's own reputation, whence 586 1, 6 | reputation, whence comes hatred of the neighbor, reputing one' 587 1, 6 | if a man be in a position of authority, he produces also 588 1, 6 | cruelty and becomes a retailer of the flesh of men. Oh, dearest 589 1, 6 | a retailer of the flesh of men. Oh, dearest daughter, 590 1, 6 | that, by prayer, the bands of their death may be loosened! ~ 591 1, 6 | places and in all kinds of people, sin is always produced 592 1, 6 | you deprive your neighbor of that which you ought to 593 1, 6 | you perform positive acts of sin, as I have related to 594 1, 6 | done through the medium of the neighbor." ~ 595 1, 7 | are accomplished by means of our neighbor, and how it 596 1, 7 | are accomplished by means of your neighbor, through the 597 1, 7 | because men are deprived of the affection of love, which 598 1, 7 | deprived of the affection of love, which gives light 599 1, 7 | principle and foundation of every evil. All scandals, 600 1, 7 | cruelty, and every sort of trouble proceed from this 601 1, 7 | from this perverse root of self-love, which has poisoned 602 1, 7 | weakened the mystical body of the Holy Church, and the 603 1, 7 | and the universal body of the believers in the Christian 604 1, 7 | that is to say in the love of him, that all virtues were 605 1, 7 | which is the pure love of Me. ~ 606 1, 7 | finds humility and hatred of her own sensual passion, 607 1, 7 | therefore, arising with hatred of her own sensuality, crushing 608 1, 7 | crushing it under the heel of reason, with great earnestness, 609 1, 7 | discovers in herself the bounty of My goodness, through the 610 1, 7 | has received from Me, all of which she considers again 611 1, 7 | knowledge which she has obtained of herself, knowing that, by 612 1, 7 | grace, I have drawn her out of darkness and lifted her 613 1, 7 | lifted her up into the light of true knowledge. When she 614 1, 7 | say, without the medium of herself or of any advantage 615 1, 7 | the medium of herself or of any advantage accruing to 616 1, 7 | herself, and with the medium of virtue, which she has conceived 617 1, 7 | has conceived through love of Me, because she sees that, 618 1, 7 | but by conceiving, hatred of sin and love of virtue; 619 1, 7 | hatred of sin and love of virtue; and, when she has 620 1, 7 | conceived by the affection of love, she immediately is 621 1, 7 | immediately is delivered of fruit for her neighbor, 622 1, 7 | otherwise, because love of Me and of her neighbor are 623 1, 7 | because love of Me and of her neighbor are one and 624 1, 7 | honor and the salvation of souls. The soul, enamored 625 1, 7 | souls. The soul, enamored of My truth, never ceases to 626 1, 7 | according to the disposition of the recipient and the ardent 627 1, 7 | recipient and the ardent desire of the donor, as I have shown 628 1, 7 | to you that the endurance of suffering alone, without 629 1, 7 | discovered the advantage of this unitive love in Me, 630 1, 7 | unitive love in Me, by means of which, she truly loves herself, 631 1, 7 | desire for the salvation of the whole world, thus coming 632 1, 7 | thus coming to the aid of its neediness, she strives, 633 1, 7 | herself by the conception of virtue, from which she has 634 1, 7 | which she has drawn the life of grace, to fix her eye on 635 1, 7 | fix her eye on the needs of her neighbor in particular. 636 1, 7 | discovered, through the affection of love, the state of all rational 637 1, 7 | affection of love, the state of all rational creatures in 638 1, 7 | counsel without any respect of persons, another with the 639 1, 7 | another with the example of a good life, and this indeed 640 1, 7 | neighbor, the edification of a holy and honorable life. 641 1, 7 | brought forth in the love of the neighbor; but, although 642 1, 7 | be as it were the chief of the others, that is to say, 643 1, 7 | indifferently, in the souls of many creatures; it happens, 644 1, 7 | becomes the principal object of its virtue; the soul disposing 645 1, 7 | virtues, and, by the effect of this virtue, the soul draws 646 1, 7 | together in the affection of love; and so with many gifts 647 1, 7 | with many gifts and graces of virtue, and not only in 648 1, 7 | and not only in the case of spiritual things but also 649 1, 7 | spiritual things but also of temporal. I use the word 650 1, 7 | necessary to the physical life of man; all these I have given 651 1, 7 | have material for love of his fellow. I could easily 652 1, 7 | have created men possessed of all that they should need 653 1, 7 | that one should have need of the other, and that they 654 1, 7 | cannot help making an act of love. It is true, however, 655 1, 7 | unless made through love of Me, profits him nothing 656 1, 7 | order that they may make use of the virtue of love. ~ 657 1, 7 | may make use of the virtue of love. ~ 658 1, 7 | than love, for in the love of Me is fulfilled and completed 659 1, 7 | fulfilled and completed the love of the neighbor, and the law 660 1, 7 | observed. For he, only, can be of use in his state of life, 661 1, 7 | can be of use in his state of life, who is bound to Me 662 1, 8 | neither can the infidelity of a wicked man, who neither 663 1, 8 | diminish the faith or the hope of him who has conceived his 664 1, 8 | faith and hope through love of Me, it rather fortifies 665 1, 8 | sees clearly the causes of his infidelity and lack 666 1, 8 | his infidelity and lack of hope. The virtue of faith 667 1, 8 | lack of hope. The virtue of faith is proved in these 668 1, 8 | those, who need the proof of it, My servant proves his 669 1, 8 | that is to say, the justice of a just man. Similarly, the 670 1, 8 | Similarly, the virtues of patience, benignity, and 671 1, 8 | manifest themselves in a time of wrath by the same sweet 672 1, 8 | desire for the salvation of souls. I say, also, to you, 673 1, 8 | man gives back fiery coals of love, which dispel the hatred 674 1, 8 | dispel the hatred and rancor of heart of the angry, and 675 1, 8 | hatred and rancor of heart of the angry, and so from hatred 676 1, 8 | and that this is by virtue of the love and perfect patience 677 1, 8 | who sustains the anger of the wicked, bearing and 678 1, 8 | will observe the virtues of fortitude and perseverance, 679 1, 8 | proved by the long endurance of the injuries and detractions 680 1, 8 | injuries and detractions of wicked men, who, whether 681 1, 8 | the road and the doctrine of truth. Wherefore, in all 682 1, 8 | these things, the virtue of fortitude conceived within 683 1, 8 | to make that good proof of itself, being tested by 684 2 | A TREATISE OF DISCRETION ~ 685 2, 1 | proved intrinsic virtues of the soul, as I have told 686 2, 1 | you. They not only consist of those virtues which are 687 2, 1 | which are done by means of the body, that is, with 688 2, 1 | which are the instruments of virtue; works of penance 689 2, 1 | instruments of virtue; works of penance performed alone 690 2, 1 | reliance on the affection of love, with a holy hatred 691 2, 1 | love, with a holy hatred of herself, accompanied by 692 2, 1 | other intrinsic virtues of the soul, with hunger and 693 2, 1 | honor and the salvation of souls. For these virtues 694 2, 1 | sensuality through the affection of love of virtue. With this 695 2, 1 | through the affection of love of virtue. With this discretion, 696 2, 1 | virtue according to the needs of the individual, and according 697 2, 1 | she can do in the measure of her own possibility. Otherwise, 698 2, 1 | not be done in the light of knowledge of herself and 699 2, 1 | in the light of knowledge of herself and of My goodness, 700 2, 1 | knowledge of herself and of My goodness, with discretion, 701 2, 1 | she will not seize hold of My truth; neither loving 702 2, 1 | which I hate. This virtue of discretion is no other than 703 2, 1 | which the soul should have of herself and of Me, and in 704 2, 1 | should have of herself and of Me, and in this knowledge 705 2, 1 | Discretion is the only child of self-knowledge, and, wedding 706 2, 1 | its root, is the ground of humility, in which it is 707 2, 1 | foster-mother and nurse of charity, by whose means 708 2, 1 | remains in the perpetual calm of discretion. Because otherwise 709 2, 1 | would not produce the virtue of discretion, or any fruit 710 2, 1 | discretion, or any fruit of life, if it were not planted 711 2, 1 | not planted in the virtue of humility, because humility 712 2, 1 | said to you, that the root of discretion is a real knowledge 713 2, 1 | discretion is a real knowledge of self and of My goodness, 714 2, 1 | real knowledge of self and of My goodness, by which the 715 2, 1 | she does not even exist of herself, and attributing 716 2, 1 | she has not made the most of her time, and the graces 717 2, 1 | seems to herself worthy of suffering; wherefore she 718 2, 1 | And this founds the virtue of discretion on knowledge 719 2, 1 | discretion on knowledge of self, that is, on true humility, 720 2, 1 | indiscreet soul robs Me of the honor due to Me, and 721 2, 1 | in her soul and in those of My other creatures; wherefore 722 2, 1 | in her neighbor is cause of scandal to her. Contrariwise 723 2, 1 | those who possess the virtue of discretion. For, when they 724 2, 1 | neighbor their principal debt of love, and of humble and 725 2, 1 | principal debt of love, and of humble and continuous prayer, 726 2, 1 | other, and further, the debt of doctrine, and example of 727 2, 1 | of doctrine, and example of a holy and honorable life, 728 2, 1 | man be in, whether that of a noble, a prelate, or a 729 2, 1 | both planted in the ground of humility which proceeds 730 2, 2 | were drawn on the surface of the earth, and a tree, with 731 2, 2 | side, grew in the center of the circle. The tree is 732 2, 2 | contained in the diameter of the circle, for if the tree 733 2, 2 | for if the tree were out of the earth it would die, 734 2, 2 | very truth the divine love of perfect charity, she cannot 735 2, 2 | she cannot produce fruit of life, but only of death. 736 2, 2 | fruit of life, but only of death. It is necessary then, 737 2, 2 | necessary then, that the root of this tree, that is the affection 738 2, 2 | tree, that is the affection of the soul, should grow in, 739 2, 2 | and issue from the circle of true self-knowledge which 740 2, 2 | like the circumference of the circle, for, turn as 741 2, 2 | This knowledge of yourself and of Me is found 742 2, 2 | knowledge of yourself and of Me is found in the earth 743 2, 2 | Me is found in the earth of true humility, which is 744 2, 2 | as wide as the diameter of the circle, that is as the 745 2, 2 | that is as the knowledge of self and of Me (for, otherwise, 746 2, 2 | the knowledge of self and of Me (for, otherwise, the 747 2, 2 | its beginning in knowledge of self, and its end in confusion, 748 2, 2 | contained in Me). Then the tree of love feeds itself on humility, 749 2, 2 | from its side the off-shoot of true discretion, in the 750 2, 2 | told you, from the heart of the tree, that is the affection 751 2, 2 | tree, that is the affection of love which is in the soul, 752 2, 2 | produces fragrant blossoms of virtue, with many scents 753 2, 2 | virtue, with many scents of great variety, inasmuch 754 2, 2 | as the soul renders fruit of grace and of utility to 755 2, 2 | renders fruit of grace and of utility to her neighbor, 756 2, 2 | neighbor, according to the zeal of those who come to receive 757 2, 2 | she renders the sweet odor of glory and praise to My Name, 758 2, 2 | and so fulfills the object of her creation. ~ 759 2, 2 | therefore, she reaches the term of her being, that is Myself, 760 2, 3 | the principal affection of the soul; and of the light 761 2, 3 | affection of the soul; and of the light of discretion 762 2, 3 | the soul; and of the light of discretion in various other 763 2, 3 | soul, the proving, namely, of virtue in the time of need. 764 2, 3 | namely, of virtue in the time of need. And yet some time 765 2, 3 | when you were desirous of doing great penance for 766 2, 3 | calls on me with the sound of words, saying: 'Lord, Lord, 767 2, 3 | desired the manifold works of manly endurance with patience, 768 2, 3 | intrinsic to the soul, all of which must be in activity 769 2, 3 | to obtain fruits worthy of grace. All other works, 770 2, 3 | is an infinite perfection of love. ~ 771 2, 3 | therefore that the works of penance, and of other corporal 772 2, 3 | the works of penance, and of other corporal exercises, 773 2, 3 | the fundamental affection of the soul. For, if the principal 774 2, 3 | the principal affection of the soul were placed in 775 2, 3 | have issued with affection of the soul, which conceives 776 2, 3 | through obedience at the order of her director, it is well; 777 2, 3 | My will, and this slaying of the will is that due which, 778 2, 3 | as I told you, the virtue of discretion renders to the 779 2, 3 | say, hatred and disgust of her own offenses and sensuality, 780 2, 3 | many actions; by the use of the word 'many' I assign 781 2, 3 | you, because the affection of the soul, founded in love, 782 2, 3 | merely said that I wished few of them, showing you that every 783 2, 3 | therefore I called them of little account; but they 784 2, 3 | performed as the instruments of virtue, and not as a principal 785 2, 3 | in excess to the slaying of his body, than he who does 786 2, 3 | Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with 787 2, 3 | flavored with the light of true discretion, without 788 2, 3 | certain conditions. The light of discretion (which proceeds 789 2, 3 | does not cause the injury of sin to self in order to 790 2, 3 | to perform even one act of great virtue and profit 791 2, 3 | profit to others, by means of the guilt of sin. Holy discretion 792 2, 3 | others, by means of the guilt of sin. Holy discretion ordains 793 2, 3 | were possible, the life of her body for the salvation 794 2, 3 | her body for the salvation of souls, enduring pains and 795 2, 3 | neighbor may have the life of grace, and giving her temporal 796 2, 3 | for the profit and relief of his body. ~ 797 2, 3 | This is the supreme office of discretion which proceeds 798 2, 3 | doing herself the injury of sin in order to be useful 799 2, 3 | otherwise it will never be of perfect utility to others. 800 2, 3 | you ever incur the guilt of sin. ~ 801 2, 3 | carries with herself the light of holy discretion, that light 802 2, 3 | ignorance, and is the condiment of every instrument of virtue. 803 2, 3 | condiment of every instrument of virtue. Holy discretion 804 2, 3 | that is, from knowledge of Me to knowledge of self, 805 2, 3 | knowledge of Me to knowledge of self, and from love of Me 806 2, 3 | knowledge of self, and from love of Me to love of others. And 807 2, 3 | from love of Me to love of others. And the soul escapes 808 2, 3 | prudence, flies all the nets of the world and its creatures, 809 2, 3 | to her weakness its due of hatred. ~ 810 2, 3 | placed it under the feet of her affection, despising 811 2, 3 | and thus becoming lord of it, holding it as folly. 812 2, 3 | it as folly. And the men of the world cannot take her 813 2, 3 | conceived by the virtue of love, as has been said, 814 2, 3 | did not shine in the time of trial, it would not have 815 2, 3 | give fruit except by means of the neighbor, even as a 816 2, 3 | may appear before the eyes of men, deprives her husband 817 2, 3 | men, deprives her husband of his fame of paternity. It 818 2, 3 | her husband of his fame of paternity. It is the same 819 2, 3 | with Me, who am the Spouse of the soul, if she do not 820 2, 3 | do not produce the child of virtue, in the love of her 821 2, 3 | child of virtue, in the love of her neighbor, showing her 822 2, 3 | all; and this is also true of the vices, all of which 823 2, 3 | also true of the vices, all of which are committed by means 824 2, 3 | which are committed by means of the neighbor." ~ 825 2, 4 | this soul grew by means of the divine response, and 826 2, 4 | learning the ineffable love of God, shown in His great 827 2, 4 | and, seeing the breadth of His charity, that, with 828 2, 4 | had conceived, on account of offenses against God, and 829 2, 4 | against God, and the damage of the Holy Church, and through 830 2, 4 | in manifesting the way of perfection, showed her anew 831 2, 4 | own guilt, and the loss of souls, as has been said 832 2, 4 | knowledge which the soul obtains of herself, she knows more 833 2, 4 | herself, she knows more of God, and knowing the goodness 834 2, 4 | and knowing the goodness of God in herself, the sweet 835 2, 4 | herself, the sweet mirror of God, she knows her own dignity 836 2, 4 | indignity. Her dignity is that of her creation, seeing that 837 2, 4 | seeing that she is the image of God, and this has been given 838 2, 4 | due. In that same mirror of the goodness of God, the 839 2, 4 | same mirror of the goodness of God, the soul knows her 840 2, 4 | which is the consequence of her own fault. Wherefore, 841 2, 4 | who, with true knowledge of self, rises with desire, 842 2, 4 | and gazes with the eye of the intellect at herself 843 2, 4 | herself in the sweet mirror of God, knows better the stains 844 2, 4 | knows better the stains of her own face, by the purity 845 2, 4 | it without the departure of the soul; so that, had she 846 2, 4 | surrounded by the strength of Him who is the Supreme Strength, 847 2, 4 | being purified by the fire of divine love, which she found 848 2, 4 | she found in the knowledge of herself and of God, and 849 2, 4 | knowledge of herself and of God, and her hunger for 850 2, 4 | hunger for the salvation of the whole world, and for 851 2, 4 | and for the reformation of the Holy Church, having 852 2, 4 | having grown with her hope of obtaining the same, rose 853 2, 4 | showing Him the leprosy of the Holy Church, and the 854 2, 4 | Holy Church, and the misery of the world, saying, as if 855 2, 4 | saying, as if with the words of Moses, 'My Lord, turn the 856 2, 4 | My Lord, turn the eyes of Your mercy upon Your people, 857 2, 4 | and upon the mystical body of the Holy Church, for You 858 2, 4 | and give to them the light of knowledge, since all will 859 2, 4 | goodness from the clouds of mortal sin, and from eternal 860 2, 4 | cause and the instrument of all this evil, for which 861 2, 4 | people death, and the clouds of darkness cover Your spouse, 862 2, 4 | own sins, and not those of Your other creatures, that 863 2, 4 | are the principal cause of this? I desire, then, and 864 2, 4 | I desire, then, and beg of You, by Your grace, that 865 2, 4 | participates in the power of the Eternal Father; and 866 2, 4 | participate in the wisdom of Your only-begotten Son; 867 2, 4 | intellect has seen and known of Your truth, thus participating 868 2, 4 | participating in the clemency of Your Holy Spirit. What reason 869 2, 4 | Yourself, and became enamored of him, for You created him 870 2, 4 | against You, fell into a state of war with Your kindness, 871 2, 4 | moved by that same fire of love with which You created 872 2, 4 | willingly gave man a means of reconciliation, so that 873 2, 4 | and likeness. Oh, abyss of love! What heart can help 874 2, 4 | Eternal Deity with the cloud of woe, and the corrupted clay 875 2, 4 | and the corrupted clay of Adam. For what reason? -- 876 2, 4 | By this ineffable love of Yours, therefore, I constrain 877 2, 5 | and touches on the subject of the Sacrament of Christ' 878 2, 5 | subject of the Sacrament of Christ's Body, and the benefit 879 2, 5 | s Body, and the benefit of the Incarnation. ~ 880 2, 5 | Then God, turning the eye of His mercy towards her, allowing 881 2, 5 | and bound by the chain of her holy desire, replied 882 2, 5 | love, and fall for love of Me, and your painful desires 883 2, 5 | become leprous, on account of her filthiness and self- 884 2, 5 | with the pride and avarice of those who feed on their 885 2, 5 | What I say of the universal body and the 886 2, 5 | body and the mystical body of the Holy Church (that is 887 2, 5 | Christian religion) I also say of My ministers, who stand 888 2, 5 | and feed at the breasts of Holy Church; and, not only 889 2, 5 | breasts the universal body of Christian people, and also 890 2, 5 | wish to leave the darkness of their infidelity, and bind 891 2, 5 | glorious milk and blood of My spouse, and with what 892 2, 5 | gives, through the defects of those who receive it, death; 893 2, 5 | say, the precious Blood of My only-begotten Son, which 894 2, 5 | and perfection in the case of that man who disposes himself 895 2, 5 | disposition and affection of him who receives It; similarly 896 2, 5 | iniquity and in the darkness of mortal sin; to him, I say, 897 2, 5 | life; not through defect of the Blood, nor through defect 898 2, 5 | Blood, nor through defect of the minister, though there 899 2, 5 | himself he does the harm of guilt, which will be followed 900 2, 5 | unworthily, not through defect of the Blood, nor of the minister, 901 2, 5 | defect of the Blood, nor of the minister, but through 902 2, 5 | himself, depriving himself of grace, trampling under the 903 2, 5 | trampling under the feet of his affection the fruit 904 2, 5 | his affection the fruit of the Blood which he had received 905 2, 5 | Baptism, when the stain of original sin was taken from 906 2, 5 | taken from him by virtue of the Blood, which stain he 907 2, 5 | because the whole stuff of human generation was corrupted 908 2, 5 | corrupted through the sin of the first man Adam. Wherefore, 909 2, 5 | man Adam. Wherefore, all of you, vessels made of this 910 2, 5 | all of you, vessels made of this stuff, were corrupted 911 2, 5 | disposed to the possession of eternal life -- so I, with 912 2, 5 | joined Myself to the baseness of your human generation, in 913 2, 5 | sin; for I was incapable of suffering, and yet, on account 914 2, 5 | suffering, and yet, on account of guilt, My divine justice 915 2, 5 | nature, the corrupted clay of Adam, in order that He might 916 2, 5 | to the opprobrious death of the Cross, and so He satisfied 917 2, 5 | satisfaction for the sin of man and to dispose him to 918 2, 5 | race, not only on account of the pain which it sustained 919 2, 5 | nature, that is in the flesh of Adam, but by virtue of the 920 2, 5 | flesh of Adam, but by virtue of the Eternal Deity, the divine 921 2, 5 | and accepted the sacrifice of My only-begotten Son, kneaded 922 2, 5 | divine nature, by the fire of divine love which was the 923 2, 5 | guilt, but only by virtue of the divine nature. And in 924 2, 5 | was destroyed the stain of Adam's sin, only the mark 925 2, 5 | Adam's sin, only the mark of it remaining behind, that 926 2, 5 | to sin, and to every sort of corporeal defect, like the 927 2, 5 | remains when a man is healed of a wound. In this way the 928 2, 5 | this way the original fault of Adam was able still to cause 929 2, 5 | stain; wherefore the coming of the great Physician, that 930 2, 5 | Physician, that is to say, of My only-begotten Son, cured 931 2, 5 | could not drink on account of his great weakness, like 932 2, 5 | who takes medicine instead of her suckling, because she 933 2, 5 | the greatness and strength of the Deity united with your 934 2, 5 | nature, the bitter medicine of the painful death of the 935 2, 5 | medicine of the painful death of the Cross, to give life 936 2, 5 | therefore that the mark alone of original sin remains, which 937 2, 5 | Baptism, which has the virtue of communicating the life of 938 2, 5 | of communicating the life of grace by means of that glorious 939 2, 5 | the life of grace by means of that glorious and precious 940 2, 5 | said, is indeed a source of weakness, but the soul can 941 2, 5 | choose. Then the vessel of the soul is disposed to 942 2, 5 | with affection, and desire of loving and serving Me; and, 943 2, 5 | evil as to good, in spite of her having received grace 944 2, 5 | Wherefore when the time of discretion is come, the 945 2, 5 | will, make choice either of good or evil, according 946 2, 5 | liberty been made by virtue of this glorious Blood, that 947 2, 5 | poor wretched creature full of such ignorance could receive 948 2, 6 | punished after the Passion of Christ than before; and 949 2, 6 | the Holy Church, by means of the prayers and sufferings 950 2, 6 | the prayers and sufferings of His servants. ~ 951 2, 6 | and restored to the life of grace, the human race, through 952 2, 6 | race, through the Blood of My only-begotten Son, as 953 2, 6 | taking so little account of the graces which I have 954 2, 6 | hard-hearted, and worthy of more punishment, and will, 955 2, 6 | redemption in the Blood of My Son, than they would 956 2, 6 | that is, before the stain of Adam's sin had been taken 957 2, 6 | glory, but he deprived Me of it, and wished to give it 958 2, 6 | freeing you from the service of the devil, I made you free. 959 2, 6 | become man, through the union of the divine with the human 960 2, 6 | is to say, the treasure of the Blood, by which they 961 2, 6 | by following in the steps of My Incarnate Word, My only-begotten 962 2, 6 | then they repay Me the debt of love both of Myself and 963 2, 6 | Me the debt of love both of Myself and of their neighbor, 964 2, 6 | love both of Myself and of their neighbor, with true 965 2, 6 | and the deathless fire of divine justice consumes 966 2, 6 | being consumed by the worm of conscience, though, in truth, 967 2, 6 | their being; the existence of grace they lose, through 968 2, 6 | punished after the Redemption of the Blood than before, because 969 2, 6 | reconciled them, by means of the Blood of My Son. But 970 2, 6 | them, by means of the Blood of My Son. But there is a remedy 971 2, 6 | that is to say, by means of My servants, if they are 972 2, 6 | honor, and the salvation of souls, so that, constrained 973 2, 6 | I may mitigate the fury of My divine justice. Take, 974 2, 6 | drawn from the fountain of My divine love, and, with 975 2, 6 | with them, wash the face of My spouse. ~ 976 2, 6 | shed by the fiery desire of My servants, and thus will 977 2, 6 | much, casting the light of your patience into the darkness 978 2, 6 | patience into the darkness of perverse man, not fearing 979 2, 7 | through the disobedience of Adam, God made of His Son 980 2, 7 | disobedience of Adam, God made of His Son a Bridge by which 981 2, 7 | that I have made a Bridge of My Word, of My only-begotten 982 2, 7 | made a Bridge of My Word, of My only-begotten Son, and 983 2, 7 | the sin and disobedience of Adam, in such a way, that 984 2, 7 | Life, and might partake of Me, and taste My supreme 985 2, 7 | Heaven and bolted the doors of mercy, the soul of man produced 986 2, 7 | doors of mercy, the soul of man produced thorns and 987 2, 7 | Spirit, and, losing the state of innocence, became a foul 988 2, 7 | have given you the Bridge of My Son, in order that, passing 989 2, 7 | flood is the tempestuous sea of this dark life. See, therefore, 990 2, 8 | to look at the greatness of this Bridge, inasmuch as 991 2, 8 | Open, my daughter, the eye of your intellect, and you 992 2, 8 | grieve over the damnation of the ignorant, and rejoice 993 2, 8 | rejoice over the perfection of My beloved servants. ~ 994 2, 8 | you to look at the Bridge of My only-begotten Son, and 995 2, 8 | that is, that the earth of your humanity is joined 996 2, 8 | joined to the greatness of the Deity thereby. I say 997 2, 8 | pass through the bitterness of the world, and arrive at 998 2, 8 | Bridge could not be made of earth sufficiently large 999 2, 8 | Life, because the earth of human nature was not sufficient 1000 2, 8 | guilt, to remove the stain of Adam's sin. Which stain