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4001 4, 10 | also figured three states of soul -- the imperfect state, 4002 4, 10 | arrives at the excellence of unitive love. I have shown 4003 4, 10 | in each state the means of cutting away imperfection 4004 4, 10 | road she is walking and of the hidden delusions of 4005 4, 10 | of the hidden delusions of the devil and of spiritual 4006 4, 10 | delusions of the devil and of spiritual self-love. Speaking 4007 4, 10 | spiritual self-love. Speaking of these three states I have 4008 4, 10 | states I have also spoken of the three judgments which 4009 4, 10 | mortal sin without hope, of whom I told you that they 4010 4, 10 | road, when I spoke to you of their wretchedness. And 4011 4, 10 | wretchedness. And the third is that of the last and universal judgment. 4012 4, 10 | I who told you somewhat of the suffering of the damned 4013 4, 10 | somewhat of the suffering of the damned and the glory 4014 4, 10 | the damned and the glory of the blessed, when all shall 4015 4, 10 | through the long endurance of My servants I will reform 4016 4, 10 | shown you the excellence of the ministers I have given 4017 4, 10 | not diminish on account of the sins of the latter, 4018 4, 10 | diminish on account of the sins of the latter, and how displeasing 4019 4, 10 | to me is such diminution of reverence; and of the virtue 4020 4, 10 | diminution of reverence; and of the virtue of those who 4021 4, 10 | reverence; and of the virtue of those who live like angels. 4022 4, 10 | touched on the excellence of the sacraments. And further 4023 4, 10 | further wishing you to know of the states of tears and 4024 4, 10 | you to know of the states of tears and whence they proceed, 4025 4, 10 | issue from the fountain of the heart, and pointed out 4026 4, 10 | I told you not only of the four states of tears, 4027 4, 10 | only of the four states of tears, but also of the fifth, 4028 4, 10 | states of tears, but also of the fifth, which germinates 4029 4, 10 | for the particular case of an individual; I have provided 4030 4, 10 | from the first beginning of the world until the end, 4031 4, 10 | and every circumstance of your life for your good, 4032 4, 10 | manifested this with the blood of My only-begotten Son, the 4033 4, 10 | and My promise to speak of the perfection of obedience 4034 4, 10 | speak of the perfection of obedience and the imperfection 4035 4, 10 | obedience and the imperfection of disobedience; and how obedience 4036 4, 10 | have also spoken to you of particular obedience, and 4037 4, 10 | particular obedience, and of the perfect and imperfect, 4038 4, 10 | perfect and imperfect, and of those in religion, and of 4039 4, 10 | of those in religion, and of those in the world, explaining 4040 4, 10 | explaining the condition of each distinctly to you, 4041 4, 10 | each distinctly to you, and of the peace given by obedience, 4042 4, 10 | by obedience, and the war of disobedience, and how the 4043 4, 10 | world by the disobedience of Adam, and how I, the Eternal 4044 4, 10 | give you this conclusion of the whole matter, that in 4045 4, 10 | matter, that in the obedience of the only- begotten Word, 4046 4, 10 | contracted the infection of death, so all of you who 4047 4, 10 | infection of death, so all of you who will take the key 4048 4, 10 | you who will take the key of obedience have contracted 4049 4, 10 | contracted the infection of the life of the new Man, 4050 4, 10 | the infection of the life of the new Man, sweet Jesus, 4051 4, 10 | the new Man, sweet Jesus, of whom I made a Bridge, the 4052 4, 10 | and hasten along this way of truth, so as not to be taken 4053 4, 10 | go slowly. I demand this of you now more than at first, 4054 4, 10 | you never leave the cell of self-knowledge, but in this 4055 4, 10 | you, which is a doctrine of truth founded upon the living 4056 4, 11 | and commending the virtue of faith brings this work to 4057 4, 11 | having seen with the eye of the intellect, and having 4058 4, 11 | having known by the light of holy faith the truth and 4059 4, 11 | the truth and excellence of obedience, hearing and tasting 4060 4, 11 | not despised me, the work of Your hands, nor turned Your 4061 4, 11 | considered the many miseries of which I am full; You, who 4062 4, 11 | Your charity, and the love of my neighbor. What has constrained 4063 4, 11 | You to illuminate the eye of my intellect with the light 4064 4, 11 | intellect with the light of faith, so that I may know 4065 4, 11 | my memory may be capable of retaining Your benefits, 4066 4, 11 | will may burn in the fire of Your charity, and may that 4067 4, 11 | that blood given for love of the Blood, together with 4068 4, 11 | Blood, together with the key of obedience, I may unlock 4069 4, 11 | obedience, I may unlock the door of Heaven. I ask this of You 4070 4, 11 | door of Heaven. I ask this of You with all my heart, forevery 4071 4, 11 | particular, in the mystical body of the holy Church. I confess 4072 4, 11 | gave value to the Blood of Your Son, You, oh eternal 4073 4, 11 | hart desires the spring of living water, so my soul 4074 4, 11 | desires to leave the prison of this dark body and see You 4075 4, 11 | Trinity, fire and abyss of love, will Your face be 4076 4, 11 | Melt at once the cloud of my body. The knowledge which 4077 4, 11 | which You have given me of Yourself in Your truth, 4078 4, 11 | to abandon the heaviness of my body, and to give my 4079 4, 11 | for the glory and praise of Your Name, for I have tasted 4080 4, 11 | and seen with the light of the intellect in Your light, 4081 4, 11 | in Your light, the abyss of You -- the eternal Trinity, 4082 4, 11 | Trinity, and the beauty of Your creature, for, looking 4083 4, 11 | Creator, and I am the work of Your hands, and I know through 4084 4, 11 | have given me in the blood of Your Son, that You are enamored 4085 4, 11 | Son, that You are enamored of the beauty of Your workmanship. 4086 4, 11 | are enamored of the beauty of Your workmanship. Oh! Abyss, 4087 4, 11 | illuminates supernaturally the eye of my intellect, clarifying 4088 4, 11 | intellect, clarifying the light of faith so abundantly and 4089 4, 11 | true light. By the Light of faith I have acquired wisdom 4090 4, 11 | acquired wisdom in the wisdom of the Word -- Your only-begotten 4091 4, 11 | only-begotten Son. In the light of faith I am strong, constant, 4092 4, 11 | persevering. In the light of faith I hope, suffer me 4093 4, 11 | illuminated me with the light of holy faith. Of a truth this 4094 4, 11 | the light of holy faith. Of a truth this light is a 4095 4, 11 | the Sea Pacific. The water of the sea is not turbid, and 4096 4, 11 | so that where the light of Your faith abounds, the 4097 4, 11 | abounds, the soul is certain of what she believes. This 4098 4, 11 | holding it with the hand of love, that I may see myself, 4099 4, 11 | the union which You made of Your godhead with our humanity. 4100 4, 11 | wisdom itself. You, the food of the angels, have given Yourself 4101 4, 11 | given Yourself in a fire of love to men; You, the garment 4102 4, 11 | given me with the light of holy faith, the many and 4103 4, 11 | explaining to me the path of supreme perfection, so that 4104 4, 11 | that I may be the mirror of a good and holy life, and 4105 4, 11 | with the glorious light of the holy faith; because 4106 4, 11 | faith; because the cloud of self-love darkened the eye 4107 4, 11 | self-love darkened the eye of my intellect, and You, the 4108 4, 11 | given me in this doctrine of truth, which has been a 4109 4, 11 | condescend to my need and to that of Your creatures -- the need 4110 4, 11 | Your creatures -- the need of introspection. Having first 4111 4, 11 | penetrating me with a ray of grace, so that in that light 4112 4, 11 | obedience and the light of holy faith, with which light 4113 Lette | Letter of Ser Barduccio di Piero Canigiani, 4114 Lette | containing the Transit of the Seraphic Virgin, Saint 4115 Lette | Virgin, Saint Catherine of Siena, to Sister Catherine 4116 Lette | Petriboni in the Monastery of San Piero a Monticelli near 4117 Lette | near Florence. In the Name of Jesus Christ. ~ 4118 Lette, 0| Sister in the holy memory of our blessed mother Catherine, 4119 Lette, 0| infant, orphaned by the death of so great a mother. I received 4120 Lette, 0| desire to know the end of our common mother, I am 4121 Lette, 0| and what the dull senses of my soul have been able to 4122 Lette, 0| blessed virgin and mother of thousands of souls, about 4123 Lette, 0| and mother of thousands of souls, about the feast of 4124 Lette, 0| of souls, about the feast of the Circumcision, began 4125 Lette, 0| obliged to alter her mode of life, the action of taking 4126 Lette, 0| mode of life, the action of taking food for her sustenance 4127 Lette, 0| so, she swallowed nothing of the substance of the food, 4128 Lette, 0| nothing of the substance of the food, but had the habit 4129 Lette, 0| food, but had the habit of rejecting it. Moreover, 4130 Lette, 0| Moreover, not one drop of water could she swallow 4131 Lette, 0| so great an inflammation of her throat that her breath 4132 Lette, 0| Sunday, when, about the hour of vespers, at the time of 4133 Lette, 0| of vespers, at the time of her prayer, she had so violent 4134 Lette, 0| health. Towards the night of the following Monday, just 4135 Lette, 0| without giving any sign of life. Then, rising, she 4136 Lette, 0| stood for an equal space of time, and did not seem the 4137 Lette, 0| arrived, she began, in spite of her infirmity, to give herself 4138 Lette, 0| herself with such application of mind to prayer that the 4139 Lette, 0| prayer that the frequency of the humble sighs and sorrowful 4140 Lette, 0| she exhaled from the depth of her heart appeared to us 4141 Lette, 0| the infinite afflictions of the soul which she derived 4142 Lette, 0| derived from the consideration of the sins which she saw being 4143 Lette, 0| to be exposed, on account of which she remained greatly 4144 Lette, 0| lift her head, and full of intolerable pains, from 4145 Lette, 0| intolerable pains, from the soles of her feet to the crown of 4146 Lette, 0| of her feet to the crown of her head, to such an extent 4147 Lette, 0| picture, though I speak not of the face, which remained 4148 Lette, 0| breathed forth devotion, but of the bosom and limbs, in 4149 Lette, 0| and feeble. On account of this it seemed right to 4150 Lette, 0| unction, which our abbot of Sant' Antimo did, while 4151 Lette, 0| lay as it were deprived of feeling. ~ 4152 Lette, 0| suffering from grave assaults of demons, and remained in 4153 Lette, 0| an hour and a half, half of which time having been passed 4154 Lette, 0| she employed the remainder of the above-mentioned time 4155 Lette, 0| with many other formulas of prayer both humble and devout, 4156 Lette, 0| expressing various acts of virtue, after which her 4157 Lette, 0| greatly mitigated the grief of her sons and daughters who 4158 Lette, 0| been lying on the bosom of Mother Alessia and now succeeded 4159 Lette, 0| relics and various pictures of the saints. She, however, 4160 Lette, 0| fixed her eyes on the image of the cross set in it, and 4161 Lette, 0| explaining, in words, certain of her most profound feelings 4162 Lette, 0| her most profound feelings of the goodness of God, and 4163 Lette, 0| feelings of the goodness of God, and while she prayed, 4164 Lette, 0| accused herself in general of all her sins in the sight 4165 Lette, 0| all her sins in the sight of God, and, in particular, 4166 Lette, 0| to abandon all thought of myself and to consider solely 4167 Lette, 0| solely the praise and glory of Your Name in the salvation 4168 Lette, 0| Your Name in the salvation of souls, and with this food 4169 Lette, 0| alone, taken from the table of the most holy Cross, to 4170 Lette, 0| prayers for the salvation of the whole world and for 4171 Lette, 0| and for the reformation of the holy Church, promising 4172 Lette, 0| promising me that, on account of them, You would use mercy 4173 Lette, 0| remained asleep in the bed of negligence. ~ 4174 Lette, 0| have placed me in charge of souls, assigning to me so 4175 Lette, 0| direct them to You by the way of Life, but I have been to 4176 Lette, 0| them nothing but a mirror of human weakness; I have had 4177 Lette, 0| weakness; I have had no care of them; I have not helped 4178 Lette, 0| them sufficient examples of the good life or the warnings 4179 Lette, 0| good life or the warnings of salutary doctrine. Oh, mean 4180 Lette, 0| innumerable gifts, the graces of such sweet torments and 4181 Lette, 0| spouse, from the beginning of my childhood, but I was 4182 Lette, 0| intelligence on the thought of them only or disposed my 4183 Lette, 0| Of these and many other similar 4184 Lette, 0| priest, said: "For the love of Christ crucified, absolve 4185 Lette, 0| Christ crucified, absolve me of all these sins which I have 4186 Lette, 0| confessed in the presence of God, and of all the others 4187 Lette, 0| the presence of God, and of all the others which I cannot 4188 Lette, 0| an hungered for the Blood of Christ. So I did what she 4189 Lette, 0| understand, and also on account of the grief with which I was 4190 Lette, 0| this she turned to certain of her sons, who had not been 4191 Lette, 0| family, showing us the way of salvation and perfection, 4192 Lette, 0| perfection, and laying upon each of us the particular task which 4193 Lette, 0| begging most humbly pardon of all for the slight care 4194 Lette, 0| which she seemed to have had of our salvation. Then she 4195 Lette, 0| many times the blessing of her most sorrowful mother, 4196 Lette, 0| bitter sweet to her. How full of tender affection was the 4197 Lette, 0| affection was the spectacle of the mother, recommending 4198 Lette, 0| holy virgin from the fervor of her prayer; and, approaching 4199 Lette, 0| Him alone, repeating many of the words which our Savior 4200 Lette, 0| Finally, making the sign of the cross, she blessed us 4201 Lette, 0| continued in prayer to the end of her life for which she had 4202 Lette, 0| mercy alone, which I ask of You, in virtue of Your Blood!" 4203 Lette, 0| I ask of You, in virtue of Your Blood!" and many times 4204 Lette, 0| Finally, after the example of the Savior, she said: "Father, 4205 Lette, 0| on the Sunday at the hour of Sext, but we kept her unburied 4206 Lette, 0| unburied until the hour of Compline on Tuesday, without 4207 Lette, 0| body was visited by crowds of people, and lucky he thought 4208 Lette, 0| the faithful, like those of the other holy bodies which 4209 Lette, 0| many graces in the name of His blessed spouse, and 4210 Lette, 0| are made great by hearing of them. I say no more. Recommend 4211 Lette, 0| present, the greatest need of the help of prayer. May 4212 Lette, 0| greatest need of the help of prayer. May Almighty God