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1 Intro, 0| enthusiasm of Chateaubriand and of the Romanticists beyond 2 Intro, 0| a golden age when heaven and earth visibly mingled, when 3 Intro, 0| paraphernalia of scientific history, and, looking through their instruments, 4 Intro, 0| to take a more critical and, perhaps, a juster view 5 Intro, 0| disciples of other nations, and though conclusions on special 6 Intro, 0| investigation should be conducted. And yet, while no one with a 7 Intro, 0| he has disinterred facts and established dates: it is 8 Intro, 0| the illusion of living men and women, and, in order to 9 Intro, 0| of living men and women, and, in order to do this successfully, 10 Intro, 0| appreciation of the particular men and women engaged in the episodes 11 Intro, 0| animosities of princes, and, in order to understand 12 Intro, 0| was in those days a mental and social force which we, in 13 Intro, 0| difficulty in realizing. Prince and serf would one day appear 14 Intro, 0| Judgment- seat of Christ, and the theory of medieval Christianity 15 Intro, 0| Christendom, at once Priest and King, anointed and consecrated 16 Intro, 0| Priest and King, anointed and consecrated as the social 17 Intro, 0| distinguishing between the office and the individual, by any means 18 Intro, 0| hurrying off to the pit popes and cardinals and other ecclesiastics. ~ 19 Intro, 0| pit popes and cardinals and other ecclesiastics. ~ 20 Intro, 0| by quasi-magical agencies and the powers of excommunication. 21 Intro, 0| phenomenal expression, necessary and sacred in its place, of 22 Intro, 0| which the Church lived, and that by that Idea all Christians, 23 Intro, 0| of a Divine message over and above the revelation of 24 Intro, 0| hermitages or cloisters, and with lips touched by coal 25 Intro, 0| novelty, imprisoned her and took the opportunity of 26 Intro, 0| the hem of his garment, and, being overcome with devotion 27 Intro, 0| her complete orthodoxy, and set her free with every 28 Intro, 0| Midway between sky and earth hangs a City Beautiful: 29 Intro, 0| bride from airy regions, and lightly settled on the summits 30 Intro, 0| which it crowns with domes and clustering towers. As seen 31 Intro, 0| with its crenellated wall and slender-necked Campanile 32 Intro, 0| It forms the fantastic and solemn background of many 33 Intro, 0| masterpiece of the trecentisti, and seems the only possible 34 Intro, 0| to "compose" with cypress and crumbling archway. ~ 35 Intro, 0| Florence in commerce, war, and politics, has, fortunately 36 Intro, 0| date of their erection, and Mr. Murray gives its present 37 Intro, 0| of servitude to Spaniard and Austrian, to be content 38 Intro, 0| lines of palaces, some grim and massive like Casa Tolomei, 39 Intro, 0| the combination of grace and strength which marked the 40 Intro, 0| century makes us familiar. And yet, as we rub our eyes, 41 Intro, 0| her actual tale of days and the immortal life given 42 Intro, 0| she has been made eternal. And not far from that ancient 43 Intro, 0| the rest of that sublime and touching symbolism under 44 Intro, 0| which the Church half veils and half reveals her teaching 45 Intro, 0| survive. Her parents, Giacomo and Lapa Benincasa, were simple 46 Intro, 0| townspeople, prosperous, and apparently deserving their 47 Intro, 0| divinity of her mission, and justifying, after years 48 Intro, 0| nevertheless, a na•ve grace and poetry all their own: the 49 Intro, 0| are toned down to a soft and tender glow, in which the 50 Intro, 0| glow, in which the curves and lines of natural humanity 51 Intro, 0| playing with their palms and crowns under the very altar 52 Intro, 0| And so these other saintly babies 53 Intro, 0| instead of the soldiers and housekeeping beloved of 54 Intro, 0| of her canonized brothers and sisters. At the age of five 55 Intro, 0| on the staircase to kneel and repeat a "Hail Mary" at 56 Intro, 0| among her numerous relatives and her parents' friends, who 57 Intro, 0| effect of her conversation, and who were constantly inviting 58 Intro, 0| sister's house to their own and were passing along a certain 59 Intro, 0| in pontifical vestments, and wearing on His head a papal 60 Intro, 0| princes of the Apostles, Peter and Paul, and the holy evangelist 61 Intro, 0| Apostles, Peter and Paul, and the holy evangelist John. 62 Intro, 0| Catherine stood still, and with fixed and immovable 63 Intro, 0| stood still, and with fixed and immovable look, gazed, full 64 Intro, 0| the eyes of His Majesty, and, with a tender smile, lifted 65 Intro, 0| over her His right hand, and, making the sign of the 66 Intro, 0| Catherine, beside herself, and transformed into Him upon 67 Intro, 0| for a space with lifted and immovable eyes in the public 68 Intro, 0| the public road, where men and beasts were continually 69 Intro, 0| were continually passing, and would certainly have continued 70 Intro, 0| immovable in the distance and paying no heed to his calls, 71 Intro, 0| to his calls, he returned and pulled her with his hands, 72 Intro, 0| sleep, lowered her eyes and said: 'Oh, if you had seen 73 Intro, 0| from so sweet a vision!' and lifted her eyes again on 74 Intro, 0| Him who had granted it, and she, not being able to endure 75 Intro, 0| St. Catherine of Siena, and, to a mind intent on mystical 76 Intro, 0| factions of her native city and heals an international feud 77 Intro, 0| international feud between Florence and the Holy See. Catherine 78 Intro, 0| band of disciples, male and female, all over Italy, 79 Intro, 0| female, all over Italy, and last, but not least, with 80 Intro, 0| evil days for the Church and the Peninsula. The trecento, 81 Intro, 0| middle ages was over. Francis and Dominic had come and gone, 82 Intro, 0| Francis and Dominic had come and gone, and though Franciscans 83 Intro, 0| Dominic had come and gone, and though Franciscans and Dominicans 84 Intro, 0| and though Franciscans and Dominicans remained and 85 Intro, 0| and Dominicans remained and numbered saints among their 86 Intro, 0| legates, mostly men of blood and lust, who ground the starving 87 Intro, 0| adviser to whose counsel -- and possibly more than counsel -- 88 Intro, 0| its ecumenical character and became more and more the 89 Intro, 0| character and became more and more the vassal of the French 90 Intro, 0| Pope, living under the eye and power of the French king. 91 Intro, 0| they had driven him away, and gratified their spite by 92 Intro, 0| matter of fact, though weak and compliant, were in their 93 Intro, 0| Benedict XII., a retiring and abstemious student, they 94 Intro, 0| the time of the plague, and also the fact that Rome 95 Intro, 0| Those elements were grave and numerous. The Fraticelli 96 Intro, 0| the eve of destruction, and it was the duty of the Spirituali, 97 Intro, 0| fellows have named both Saint and Great, was due the development 98 Intro, 0| Chief and greatest of bishops in his 99 Intro, 0| writings, which are voluminous and verbose, are marked rather 100 Intro, 0| characterized by a shrewd and gracious condescension to 101 Intro, 0| possible be held at the times and places at which the people 102 Intro, 0| traditional merry-makings, and their conversion would be 103 Intro, 0| conversion would be gradually, and as it were unconsciously, 104 Intro, 0| effected. It was a kindly and statesmanlike thought. In 105 Intro, 0| Catholicism, that "pensive use and wont religion," not assuredly 106 Intro, 0| time attached his hopes and fears to the mysterious 107 Intro, 0| deserted by the Empire, and, but for him and the organization 108 Intro, 0| Empire, and, but for him and the organization which depended 109 Intro, 0| the invading Lombard. More and more, people came to look 110 Intro, 0| government they knew. Kings and nobles had conferred much 111 Intro, 0| in Sicily, Corsica, Gaul, and even Asia and Africa. Gregory 112 Intro, 0| Corsica, Gaul, and even Asia and Africa. Gregory successfully 113 Intro, 0| property against the invaders, and came to the relief of the 114 Intro, 0| population with corn from Sicily and Africa, thus laying deep 115 Intro, 0| vicar of a distant emperor, and at length, as the result 116 Intro, 0| result of astute statecraft and the necessities of the case, 117 Intro, 0| of Europe, as their chief and arbiter. So much as has 118 Intro, 0| small means, in an aridity and narrowness of temper that 119 Intro, 0| actual achievement. History, and in particular the history 120 Intro, 0| the freedom of his country and the regeneration of the 121 Intro, 0| quality of style, is a fact," and the soul of St. Catherine' 122 Intro, 0| intimate association with her, and a permanent source of refreshment 123 Intro, 0| forms, the forms of Beauty and Love. Truth and Goodness 124 Intro, 0| of Beauty and Love. Truth and Goodness were, she thought, 125 Intro, 0| highest achievement of man and his supreme and satisfying 126 Intro, 0| achievement of man and his supreme and satisfying beatitude. The 127 Intro, 0| were to her the necessary and fitting means of transit, 128 Intro, 0| of the soul, its tyrant and its gaoler. Many of those 129 Intro, 0| with the problems of truth and goodness are wearied and 130 Intro, 0| and goodness are wearied and cumbered with much serving. 131 Intro, 0| serving. We honor them, and rightly; but if they have 132 Intro, 0| Catherine has taken a permanent and foremost place. She is among 133 Intro, 0| accomplished in her, Nature and Grace have lain down together, 134 Intro, 0| have lain down together, and the mysteries of her religion 135 Intro, 0| character, an unquenchable love and a deathless will. * * * ~ 136 Intro, 0| daughter, whose will, purified and sublimated by prayer, imposed 137 Intro, 0| imposed itself on popes and princes, is an almost unique 138 Intro, 0| one who has experienced and triumphed over them. Terrible, 139 Intro, 0| And so every well-known form 140 Intro, 0| incisively, remorselessly, and then subsumed under the 141 Intro, 0| infinite loving-kindness and mercy. ~ 142 Intro, 0| frequently conventional and jejune. Compare, for instance, 143 Intro, 0| with the higher spiritual and mental faculties, whom it 144 Intro, 0| resemble. To keep healthy and raise the tone of devotional 145 Intro, 0| treating, in a manner so simple and familiar as at times to 146 Intro, 0| frequently of lofty eloquence, and also of such literary perfection 147 Intro, 0| the classics of the age and land which produced Boccaccio 148 Intro, 0| which produced Boccaccio and Petrarch. To-day, in the 149 Intro, 0| as literally as possible, and at the same time to preserve 150 Intro, 0| she introduces a metaphor and forgets it; the sea, a vine, 151 Intro, 0| forgets it; the sea, a vine, and a plough will often appear 152 1, 1 | desire of the honor of God, and of the salvation of her 153 1, 1 | is lifted by a very great and yearning desire for the 154 1, 1 | desire for the honor of God and the salvation of souls, 155 1, 1 | knowledge must precede love, and only when she has attained 156 1, 1 | can she strive to follow and to clothe herself with the 157 1, 1 | therefrom, as by means of humble and continuous prayer, founded 158 1, 1 | on knowledge of herself and of God; because prayer, 159 1, 1 | footprints of Christ Crucified, and thus, by desire and affection, 160 1, 1 | Crucified, and thus, by desire and affection, and union of 161 1, 1 | by desire and affection, and union of love, makes her 162 1, 1 | To him who will love Me and will observe My commandment, 163 1, 1 | will I manifest Myself; and he shall be one thing with 164 1, 1 | shall be one thing with Me and I with him. In several places 165 1, 1 | but rather to manifest it; and, that among other things, 166 1, 1 | the eye of your intellect, and gaze into Me, and you shall 167 1, 1 | intellect, and gaze into Me, and you shall see the beauty 168 1, 1 | of My rational creature. And look at those creatures 169 1, 1 | creating her in My image and similitude, are clothed 170 1, 1 | united with Me through love. And yet I tell you, if you should 171 1, 1 | should reply" (said the sweet and amorous Word of God) "they 172 1, 1 | inasmuch as they have lost and denied their own will, and 173 1, 1 | and denied their own will, and are clothed with Mine, are 174 1, 1 | that soul, wishing to know and follow the truth more manfully, 175 1, 1 | the truth more manfully, and lifting her desires first 176 1, 1 | requests to the Supreme and Eternal Father. The first 177 1, 1 | prayer for the whole world, and in particular for the peace 178 1, 1 | rebel, with much lewdness and persecution, against the 179 1, 1 | Holy Church; in the fourth and last, she besought the Divine 180 1, 1 | provide for things in general, and in particular, for a certain 181 1, 2 | This desire was great and continuous, but grew much 182 1, 2 | neediness of the world, and in what a tempest of offense 183 1, 2 | offense against God it lay. And she had understood this 184 1, 2 | explained to her the penalties and intolerable dolor caused 185 1, 2 | by offenses against God, and the loss of souls, and the 186 1, 2 | and the loss of souls, and the persecutions of Holy 187 1, 2 | grief for the offenses, and with the joy of the lively 188 1, 2 | against such great evils. And, since the soul seems, in 189 1, 2 | herself fast within herself and with God, and knows better 190 1, 2 | within herself and with God, and knows better His truth, 191 1, 2 | the soul is then in God, and God in the soul, as the 192 1, 2 | the fish is in the sea, and the sea in the fish, she 193 1, 2 | in order to hear Mass. And, when the morning came, 194 1, 2 | when the morning came, and the hour of the Mass, she 195 1, 2 | desire her accustomed place; and, with a great knowledge 196 1, 2 | world, conceiving a hatred and displeasure against herself, 197 1, 2 | displeasure against herself, and a feeling of holy justice, 198 1, 2 | which knowledge, hatred, and justice, she purified the 199 1, 2 | sins in this finite life, and, inasmuch as my sins are 200 1, 3 | the Eternal Truth seized and drew more strongly to Himself 201 1, 3 | to God, a fire descended and drew to Him the sacrifice 202 1, 3 | true that both the guilt and the penalty can be expiated 203 1, 3 | wishes for infinite love and infinite grief. Infinite 204 1, 3 | by an affection of love, and therefore grieve when they 205 1, 3 | receives infinite merit, and satisfies for a guilt which 206 1, 3 | although their works are finite and done in finite time; but, 207 1, 3 | possess the virtue of desire, and sustain their suffering 208 1, 3 | their suffering with desire, and contrition, and infinite 209 1, 3 | desire, and contrition, and infinite displeasure against 210 1, 3 | had the tongues of angels, and if I knew the things of 211 1, 3 | the things of the future and gave my body to be burned, 212 1, 3 | gave my body to be burned, and have not love, it would 213 1, 4 | How desire and contrition of heart satisfies, 214 1, 4 | satisfies, both for the guilt and the penalty in oneself and 215 1, 4 | and the penalty in oneself and in others; and how sometimes 216 1, 4 | in oneself and in others; and how sometimes it satisfies 217 1, 4 | satisfies for the guilt only, and not the penalty. ~ 218 1, 4 | sustained purely as such. And I say, that the guilt is 219 1, 4 | through the desire, love, and contrition of the heart; 220 1, 4 | soul; inasmuch as desire and every virtue is of value, 221 1, 4 | every virtue is of value, and has life in itself, through 222 1, 4 | drawn her love from Him, and virtuously follows His virtues, 223 1, 4 | Footprints. In this way, and in no other, are virtues 224 1, 4 | other, are virtues of value, and in this way, pains satisfy 225 1, 4 | the fault, by the sweet and intimate love acquired in 226 1, 4 | knowledge of My goodness, and in the bitterness and contrition 227 1, 4 | goodness, and in the bitterness and contrition of heart acquired 228 1, 4 | knowledge of one's self and one's own thoughts. And 229 1, 4 | and one's own thoughts. And this knowledge generates 230 1, 4 | knowledge generates a hatred and displeasure against sin, 231 1, 4 | displeasure against sin, and against the soul's own sensuality, 232 1, 4 | herself worthy of pains and unworthy of reward." ~ 233 1, 4 | love, with true patience, and with true humility, deeming 234 1, 4 | themselves worthy of pain and unworthy of reward, such 235 1, 4 | against Me by My Creatures, and you further ask the will 236 1, 4 | further ask the will to know and love Me, who am the Supreme 237 1, 4 | arrive at a perfect knowledge and enjoyment of Me, the Eternal 238 1, 4 | the knowledge of yourself, and, by humbling yourself in 239 1, 4 | humility, you will know Me and yourself, from which knowledge 240 1, 4 | except through charity, and humility, which is the foster-mother 241 1, 4 | which is the foster-mother and nurse of charity. In self-knowledge, 242 1, 4 | since I have loved both you and others before you were in 243 1, 4 | before you were in existence; and that, through the ineffable 244 1, 4 | Grace, I have washed you, and re-created you in the Blood 245 1, 4 | the cloud of self-love, and in no other way can he learn. 246 1, 4 | she has known My truth, and her own faults, and the 247 1, 4 | truth, and her own faults, and the ingratitude of men, 248 1, 4 | that it is right for you, and My other servants who have 249 1, 4 | death, many tribulations and injuries and insults in 250 1, 4 | tribulations and injuries and insults in word and deed, 251 1, 4 | injuries and insults in word and deed, for the glory and 252 1, 4 | and deed, for the glory and praise of My Name; thus 253 1, 4 | Name; thus will you endure and suffer pains. Do you, therefore, 254 1, 4 | pains. Do you, therefore, and My other servants, carry 255 1, 4 | with grief for your sins, and with love of virtue for 256 1, 4 | of virtue for the glory and praise of My Name. If you 257 1, 4 | will satisfy for your sins, and for those of My other servants, 258 1, 4 | of love, for satisfaction and reward, both in you and 259 1, 4 | and reward, both in you and in others. In yourself you 260 1, 4 | your ignorance are effaced, and I shall not remember that 261 1, 4 | satisfy through the love and affection which you have 262 1, 4 | affection which you have to Me, and I will give to them according 263 1, 4 | dispose themselves, humbly and with reverence, to receive 264 1, 4 | will I remit both guilt and penalty, since they will 265 1, 4 | thus come to true knowledge and contrition for their sins. 266 1, 4 | that, by means of prayer, and their desire of serving 267 1, 4 | their exercise of virtue and grace in general. I say 268 1, 4 | that I give them light, and that I wake up in them the 269 1, 4 | the hound of conscience, and make them smell the odor 270 1, 4 | smell the odor of virtue, and take delight in the conversation 271 1, 4 | that, feeling its diverse and various passions, they may 272 1, 4 | little stability it has, and may come to lift their desire 273 1, 4 | their desire beyond it, and seek their native country, 274 1, 4 | which is the Eternal Life. And so I draw them by these, 275 1, 4 | so I draw them by these, and by many other ways, for 276 1, 4 | how many are the roads and ways which I use, through 277 1, 4 | by which I created them, and by the love, desire, and 278 1, 4 | and by the love, desire, and grief of My servants, since 279 1, 4 | despiser of their tears, and sweat, and humble prayers; 280 1, 4 | their tears, and sweat, and humble prayers; rather I 281 1, 4 | love for the good of souls and grief for their loss. But 282 1, 4 | with perfect love, My love, and that of My servants. They 283 1, 4 | their grief with bitterness, and perfect contrition for the 284 1, 4 | but with imperfect love and contrition, wherefore they 285 1, 4 | both in him that gives and him that receives. Wherefore, 286 1, 4 | their sakes, with suffering; and, inasmuch as I told you 287 1, 4 | the light of conscience, and by other things, satisfaction 288 1, 4 | corruption of their sins, and so receive the gift of grace. ~ 289 1, 4 | the guise of correction, and do not resist over much 290 1, 4 | fools, they are ungrateful, and ignore Me and the labors 291 1, 4 | ungrateful, and ignore Me and the labors of My servants 292 1, 4 | turns to their own ruin and judgment, not through defect 293 1, 4 | the man's own wretchedness and hardness, with which, with 294 1, 4 | can in no way be broken. And yet, I say to you, that, 295 1, 4 | for the Blood of My Son, and let him with his own hand 296 1, 4 | the diamond over his heart and shiver it, and he will receive 297 1, 4 | his heart and shiver it, and he will receive the imprint 298 1, 4 | intellect, so as to see and know the truth, affection, 299 1, 4 | which I have given you all, and which ought to render fruit 300 1, 4 | Father; but, if a man barters and sells it to the devil, the 301 1, 4 | has acquired in this life. And, filling his memory with 302 1, 4 | with the delights of sin, and with the recollection of 303 1, 4 | avarice, self-love, hatred, and unkindness to his neighbors ( 304 1, 4 | their sins with contrition and displeasure of their guilt. 305 1, 4 | through the finite pain; and such as have this contrition 306 1, 4 | when speaking in general; and if they satisfy for the 307 1, 4 | sin, they receive grace, and have not sufficient contrition 308 1, 4 | not sufficient contrition and love to satisfy for the 309 1, 4 | passing through the second and last means of satisfaction. ~ 310 1, 4 | obtained by the desire and prayer of the recipient. 311 1, 4 | the fire of your desire, and let not a moment pass without 312 1, 4 | neighbors. I say this to you and to the father of your soul, 313 1, 4 | yourselves with manful courage, and make yourselves dead to 314 1, 5 | desire to bear every pain and fatigue, even unto death, 315 1, 5 | to know more of My truth, and the more she knows, the 316 1, 5 | she knows, the more pain and intolerable grief she feels 317 1, 5 | asked Me to sustain you, and to punish the faults of 318 1, 5 | faults of others in you, and you did not remark that 319 1, 5 | asking for love, light, and knowledge of the truth, 320 1, 5 | increase of love, grows grief and pain, wherefore he that 321 1, 5 | all, that you should ask, and it will be given you, for 322 1, 5 | other way than by suffering, and patience is united with 323 1, 5 | be spouses of My Truth, and faithful children, nor of 324 1, 5 | relish the taste of My honor, and the salvation of souls." ~ 325 1, 6 | How every virtue and every defect is obtained 326 1, 6 | means of your neighbor, and likewise, every defect; 327 1, 6 | injury to his neighbor, and to himself, who is his own 328 1, 6 | his own chief neighbor, and this injury is both general 329 1, 6 | this injury is both general and particular. It is general 330 1, 6 | your neighbor as yourself, and loving him, you ought to 331 1, 6 | counseling him with words, and assisting him both spiritually 332 1, 6 | assisting him both spiritually and temporally, according to 333 1, 6 | love, does not help him, and thereby does himself an 334 1, 6 | off from himself grace, and injures his neighbor, by 335 1, 6 | the benefit of the prayers and of the sweet desires that 336 1, 6 | has through love of Me. And every evil also, is done 337 1, 6 | charity with his neighbor; and thus, all evils derive from 338 1, 6 | deprivation of love of Me and her neighbor; whence, inasmuch 339 1, 6 | First of all to himself, and then to his neighbor, not 340 1, 6 | which deprives him of grace, and worse than this he cannot 341 1, 6 | help him by means of prayer and holy desire offered to Me 342 1, 6 | help one another by word and doctrine, and the example 343 1, 6 | another by word and doctrine, and the example of good works, 344 1, 6 | the example of good works, and in every other respect in 345 1, 6 | any passion of self-love; and he (a man not loving God) 346 1, 6 | love towards his neighbor; and, by not doing it, he does 347 1, 6 | you see, a special injury. And he does him evil, not only 348 1, 6 | doing him a positive injury and a constant evil. In this 349 1, 6 | way sin causes a physical and a mental injury. The mental 350 1, 6 | pleasure in the idea of sin, and hatred of virtue, that is, 351 1, 6 | ought to have towards Me, and his neighbor, as has been 352 1, 6 | neighbor, as has been said. And, after he has conceived, 353 1, 6 | he brings forth cruelty, and that both in general and 354 1, 6 | and that both in general and in particular. ~ 355 1, 6 | cruelty is to see himself and other creatures in danger 356 1, 6 | creatures in danger of death and damnation through privation 357 1, 6 | through privation of grace, and so cruel is he that he reminds 358 1, 6 | others of the love of virtue and hatred of vice. Being thus 359 1, 6 | instrument to destroy life and to give death. Cruelty towards 360 1, 6 | arbitrary use of power, and at other times by cheating 361 1, 6 | other times by cheating and fraud, his neighbor being 362 1, 6 | own loss, his own goods, and often indeed his own person. ~ 363 1, 6 | unless he turn to kindness and benevolence towards his 364 1, 6 | brute beast full of stench, and in this case he does not 365 1, 6 | self to be greater than he; and in this way is injury done 366 1, 6 | way is injury done to him. And if a man be in a position 367 1, 6 | produces also injustice and cruelty and becomes a retailer 368 1, 6 | also injustice and cruelty and becomes a retailer of the 369 1, 6 | the offense against Me, and weep over these corpses, 370 1, 6 | now, that, in all places and in all kinds of people, 371 1, 6 | produced against the neighbor, and through his medium; in no 372 1, 7 | by means of our neighbor, and how it is that virtues differ 373 1, 7 | which destroys charity and affection towards the neighbor, 374 1, 7 | neighbor, is the principle and foundation of every evil. 375 1, 7 | scandals, hatred, cruelty, and every sort of trouble proceed 376 1, 7 | poisoned the entire world, and weakened the mystical body 377 1, 7 | body of the Holy Church, and the universal body of the 378 1, 7 | the Christian religion; and, therefore, I said to you, 379 1, 7 | all virtues were founded; and, truly indeed did I say 380 1, 7 | above, she finds humility and hatred of her own sensual 381 1, 7 | bound up in her members, and which ever fights against 382 1, 7 | fights against the spirit. And, therefore, arising with 383 1, 7 | drawn her out of darkness and lifted her up into the light 384 1, 7 | loves it without any medium, and yet at the same time with 385 1, 7 | advantage accruing to herself, and with the medium of virtue, 386 1, 7 | can she become grateful and acceptable to Me, but by 387 1, 7 | conceiving, hatred of sin and love of virtue; and, when 388 1, 7 | sin and love of virtue; and, when she has thus conceived 389 1, 7 | And it cannot be otherwise, 390 1, 7 | otherwise, because love of Me and of her neighbor are one 391 1, 7 | of her neighbor are one and the same thing, and, so 392 1, 7 | one and the same thing, and, so far as the soul loves 393 1, 7 | you, that you may exercise and prove your virtue therewith; 394 1, 7 | fruit for your neighbor and making prayers to Me, seeking 395 1, 7 | to Me, seeking with sweet and amorous desire My honor 396 1, 7 | amorous desire My honor and the salvation of souls. 397 1, 7 | whole world in general, and more or less in a particular 398 1, 7 | disposition of the recipient and the ardent desire of the 399 1, 7 | example of a good life, and this indeed all give to 400 1, 7 | the edification of a holy and honorable life. These are 401 1, 7 | These are the virtues, and many others, too many to 402 1, 7 | but to one, one virtue, and to another, another, it 403 1, 7 | another fortitude. These, and many other virtues, I place, 404 1, 7 | rather than to other virtues, and, by the effect of this virtue, 405 1, 7 | in the affection of love; and so with many gifts and graces 406 1, 7 | and so with many gifts and graces of virtue, and not 407 1, 7 | gifts and graces of virtue, and not only in the case of 408 1, 7 | have given indifferently, and I have not placed them all 409 1, 7 | should need both for body and soul, but I wish that one 410 1, 7 | have need of the other, and that they should be My ministers 411 1, 7 | to administer the graces and the gifts that they have 412 1, 7 | have made men My ministers, and placed them in diverse stations 413 1, 7 | them in diverse stations and various ranks, in order 414 1, 7 | house are many mansions, and that I wish for no other 415 1, 7 | love of Me is fulfilled and completed the love of the 416 1, 7 | the love of the neighbor, and the law observed. For he, 417 1, 8 | How virtues are proved and fortified by their contraries. ~ 418 1, 8 | may serve his neighbor, and manifest, by that service, 419 1, 8 | the cruel, his gentleness and benignity on the irascible. 420 1, 8 | irascible. Good men produce and prove all their virtues 421 1, 8 | has conceived his faith and hope through love of Me, 422 1, 8 | it rather fortifies it, and proves it in the love he 423 1, 8 | he is without hope in Me, and in My servant, because he 424 1, 8 | love Me, placing his faith and hope rather in his own sensuality, 425 1, 8 | causes of his infidelity and lack of hope. The virtue 426 1, 8 | faith is proved in these and other ways. Wherefore, to 427 1, 8 | proves his faith in himself and in his neighbor, and so, 428 1, 8 | himself and in his neighbor, and so, justice is not diminished 429 1, 8 | of patience, benignity, and kindness manifest themselves 430 1, 8 | patience in My servants, and envy, vexation, and hatred 431 1, 8 | servants, and envy, vexation, and hatred demonstrate their 432 1, 8 | demonstrate their love, and hunger and desire for the 433 1, 8 | demonstrate their love, and hunger and desire for the salvation 434 1, 8 | which dispel the hatred and rancor of heart of the angry, 435 1, 8 | rancor of heart of the angry, and so from hatred often comes 436 1, 8 | often comes benevolence, and that this is by virtue of 437 1, 8 | is by virtue of the love and perfect patience which is 438 1, 8 | anger of the wicked, bearing and supporting his defects. 439 1, 8 | the virtues of fortitude and perseverance, these virtues 440 1, 8 | endurance of the injuries and detractions of wicked men, 441 1, 8 | from following the road and the doctrine of truth. Wherefore, 442 1, 8 | perseveres with strength, and, in addition proves itself 443 1, 8 | as I have said to you; and, if fortitude were not able 444 2, 1 | but rather on virtues; and how discretion receives 445 2, 1 | receives life from humility, and renders to each man his 446 2, 1 | These are the holy and sweet works which I seek 447 2, 1 | exterior act, or with diverse and varied penances, which are 448 2, 1 | accompanied by true humility and perfect patience, together 449 2, 1 | of the soul, with hunger and desire for My honor and 450 2, 1 | and desire for My honor and the salvation of souls. 451 2, 1 | demonstrate that the will is dead, and continually slays its own 452 2, 1 | needs of the individual, and according to what the soul 453 2, 1 | of knowledge of herself and of My goodness, with discretion, 454 2, 1 | goodness, with discretion, and she will not seize hold 455 2, 1 | soul should have of herself and of Me, and in this knowledge 456 2, 1 | have of herself and of Me, and in this knowledge is virtue 457 2, 1 | child of self-knowledge, and, wedding with charity, has 458 2, 1 | the tree, to its branches, and its root, is the ground 459 2, 1 | humility is the foster-mother and nurse of charity, by whose 460 2, 1 | proceeds from self-knowledge. And I have already said to you, 461 2, 1 | a real knowledge of self and of My goodness, by which 462 2, 1 | which the soul immediately, and discreetly, renders to each 463 2, 1 | to Me in rendering praise and glory to My Name, and in 464 2, 1 | praise and glory to My Name, and in referring to Me the graces 465 2, 1 | referring to Me the graces and the gifts which she sees 466 2, 1 | the gifts which she sees and knows she has received from 467 2, 1 | she has received from Me; and rendering to herself that 468 2, 1 | not even exist of herself, and attributing to Me, and not 469 2, 1 | and attributing to Me, and not to herself, her being, 470 2, 1 | received by grace from Me, and every other grace which 471 2, 1 | And she seems to herself to 472 2, 1 | ungrateful for so many benefits, and negligent, in that she has 473 2, 1 | made the most of her time, and the graces she has received, 474 2, 1 | graces she has received, and so seems to herself worthy 475 2, 1 | wherefore she becomes odious and displeasing to herself through 476 2, 1 | herself through her guilt. And this founds the virtue of 477 2, 1 | of the honor due to Me, and attributes it to herself, 478 2, 1 | herself, through vainglory, and that which is really her 479 2, 1 | imputes to Me, grieving and murmuring concerning My 480 2, 1 | which I work in her soul and in those of My other creatures; 481 2, 1 | wherefore everything in Me and in her neighbor is cause 482 2, 1 | rendered what is due to Me and to themselves, they proceed 483 2, 1 | principal debt of love, and of humble and continuous 484 2, 1 | debt of love, and of humble and continuous prayer, which 485 2, 1 | should pay to each other, and further, the debt of doctrine, 486 2, 1 | further, the debt of doctrine, and example of a holy and honorable 487 2, 1 | doctrine, and example of a holy and honorable life, counseling 488 2, 1 | honorable life, counseling and helping others according 489 2, 1 | neighbor is done discreetly and lovingly, because these 490 2, 1 | these virtues are bound and mingled together, and both 491 2, 1 | bound and mingled together, and both planted in the ground 492 2, 2 | showing how love, humility, and discretion are united; and 493 2, 2 | and discretion are united; and how the soul should conform 494 2, 2 | the surface of the earth, and a tree, with an off-shoot 495 2, 2 | the earth it would die, and give no fruit. Now, consider, 496 2, 2 | a tree existing by love, and that it can live by nothing 497 2, 2 | nothing else than love; and, that if this soul have 498 2, 2 | the soul, should grow in, and issue from the circle of 499 2, 2 | This knowledge of yourself and of Me is found in the earth 500 2, 2 | as the knowledge of self and of Me (for, otherwise, the