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1 Intro, 0| It would be hard to say whether the Age of the 2 Intro, 0| Rhine, hostility gave place to an undiscriminating admiration. 3 Intro, 0| are not Germans, have come to take a more critical and, 4 Intro, 0| the same views prevail as to the principles on which 5 Intro, 0| no one with a reputation to lose would venture on any 6 Intro, 0| on any personal heresy as to the standards of legitimate 7 Intro, 0| the same facts still seem to lead different minds to 8 Intro, 0| to lead different minds to differing appreciations. 9 Intro, 0| his work begins. History, to be worthy of the name, must 10 Intro, 0| and women, and, in order to do this successfully, must 11 Intro, 0| their occurrence, we have to depend in great measure 12 Intro, 0| lacks the sympathetic power to enter into the character 13 Intro, 0| character that he attempts to delineate, will hardly be 14 Intro, 0| delineate, will hardly be able to make that character live 15 Intro, 0| is the reason of this far to seek. The middle ages were 16 Intro, 0| individuals who molded society, to an extent that perhaps no 17 Intro, 0| spoil was then necessarily to the strong. But even Napoleon 18 Intro, 0| of princes, and, in order to understand the state of 19 Intro, 0| period, it is necessary to understand the state of 20 Intro, 0| who happened, at the time, to be the political stakeholders. ~ 21 Intro, 0| prince himself was held to be ultimately amenable to 22 Intro, 0| to be ultimately amenable to an idea, which so infinitely 23 Intro, 0| earthly distinctions as to level them all in relation 24 Intro, 0| level them all in relation to itself. Religion was in 25 Intro, 0| ministers of justice seem to have a special joy in hurrying 26 Intro, 0| special joy in hurrying off to the pit popes and cardinals 27 Intro, 0| criticism that has led some to suppose that the medieval 28 Intro, 0| establishing a monstrous claim to control the destinies of 29 Intro, 0| When Savonarola replied to the Papal Legate, who, in 30 Intro, 0| committed the blunder of adding to the formula of excommunication 31 Intro, 0| manifestation of the Divine Will to Christendom. The unanimity 32 Intro, 0| Christians, was conceived to have his own special relations 33 Intro, 0| God, which amounted almost to a personal revelation. In 34 Intro, 0| In particular he was held to be exempt from many of the 35 Intro, 0| experience were thought to be constantly transcended 36 Intro, 0| the people as the bearer to Christendom of a Divine 37 Intro, 0| of warning or correction to the hierarchy. Sabatier 38 Intro, 0| occupied much the same relation to the ecclesiastical system 39 Intro, 0| the older dispensation, to the Jewish Priesthood. They 40 Intro, 0| highest places. It is needless to say that they were not revolutionaries -- 41 Intro, 0| simple peasant, was called to the unusual vocation of 42 Intro, 0| a visit of Alexander VI. to the neighboring town of 43 Intro, 0| neighboring town of Perugia to bring her before his Holiness 44 Intro, 0| Rodrigo Borgia. It was useless to attempt to stop her; she 45 Intro, 0| It was useless to attempt to stop her; she was beyond 46 Intro, 0| or guards; the Pope had to hear her out. He did so; 47 Intro, 0| logic appears, for once, to have been justified, at 48 Intro, 0| Virginis. The town seems to have descended as a bride 49 Intro, 0| Belcaro, the city is familiar to students of the early Italian 50 Intro, 0| would create no surprise to come, while walking round 51 Intro, 0| so familiarly recurrent to the memory in such an environment: 52 Intro, 0| friar happens for a moment to "compose" with cypress and 53 Intro, 0| after centuries of servitude to Spaniard and Austrian, to 54 Intro, 0| to Spaniard and Austrian, to be content with the somewhat 55 Intro, 0| in great measure, spared to Siena. Even the railway 56 Intro, 0| railway has had the grace to conceal its presence in 57 Intro, 0| rough-hewn stone stained to the color of tarnished silver 58 Intro, 0| fourteenth century it belonged to Set Giacomo Benincasa, a 59 Intro, 0| reveals her teaching as to the destiny of man. Another 60 Intro, 0| bore twenty-five children to her husband, of whom thirteen 61 Intro, 0| whom thirteen only appear to have grown up. This large 62 Intro, 0| Revelation are toned down to a soft and tender glow, 63 Intro, 0| infants. Heaven condescends to their pious revels: we are 64 Intro, 0| pedant indeed who should wish to rationalize this white mythology. 65 Intro, 0| Catherine was no exception to the rest of her canonized 66 Intro, 0| custom on the staircase to kneel and repeat a "Hail 67 Intro, 0| a devotion so pleasing to the angels, that they would 68 Intro, 0| feet touch the ground, much to the alarm of her mother, 69 Intro, 0| her mother, who confided to Father Raymond of Capua, 70 Intro, 0| pet name of Euphrosyne, to signify the grief-dispelling 71 Intro, 0| constantly inviting her to their houses on some pretext 72 Intro, 0| one morning on an errand to the house of her married 73 Intro, 0| little older than herself, to the house of their sister 74 Intro, 0| Bonaventura, who was married to one Niccolò, as has been 75 Intro, 0| mentioned above, in order to carry something or give 76 Intro, 0| from their sister's house to their own and were passing 77 Intro, 0| manner, in order sweetly to gain her love to Himself, 78 Intro, 0| sweetly to gain her love to Himself, fixed on her the 79 Intro, 0| certainly have continued to stand there as long as the 80 Intro, 0| distance and paying no heed to his calls, he returned and 81 Intro, 0| entirely disappeared, according to the will of Him who had 82 Intro, 0| and she, not being able to endure this without pain, 83 Intro, 0| without pain, began with tears to reproach herself for having 84 Intro, 0| for having turned her eyes to earth." Such was the "call" 85 Intro, 0| Catherine of Siena, and, to a mind intent on mystical 86 Intro, 0| Vicar, may fitly appear to symbolize the great mission 87 Intro, 0| mission of her after-life to the Holy See. * * * ~ 88 Intro, 0| secular clergy was, according to Catherine herself, too often 89 Intro, 0| Fair, the astute adviser to whose counsel -- and possibly 90 Intro, 0| far as his subservience to the French king went, he 91 Intro, 0| remained Archbishop of Bordeaux to the end of his days. He 92 Intro, 0| position could not fail to affect even its doctrinal 93 Intro, 0| was well enough in theory to apply to the situation such 94 Intro, 0| enough in theory to apply to the situation such maxims 95 Intro, 0| ecclesiastics. They gave no credit to John XXII. for his genuine 96 Intro, 0| phrase: bibere papaliter -- to drink like the Pope. Clement 97 Intro, 0| The real danger ahead to Christendom was the possibility 98 Intro, 0| his position by recourse to the heretical elements scattered 99 Intro, 0| before or since. It amounted to belief in a new revelation 100 Intro, 0| of the Spirit, which was to supersede the dispensation 101 Intro, 0| of the Father. According to the Eternal Gospel of Gerard 102 Intro, 0| received the new dispensation, to fly from the contamination 103 Intro, 0| who should have rallied to his allegiance these elements 104 Intro, 0| have been a dangerous rival to a French Pope residing in 105 Intro, 0| good or ill, it had come to be essential to the action 106 Intro, 0| had come to be essential to the action of the Holy See 107 Intro, 0| this world, by what seems to have been the inevitable 108 Intro, 0| Imperial power in Italy due to the practical abandonment 109 Intro, 0| at too great a distance to be an effective Emperor 110 Intro, 0| increase of secular importance to the See of Rome. To the 111 Intro, 0| importance to the See of Rome. To the genius of Pope Gregory 112 Intro, 0| and gracious condescension to the limitations of human 113 Intro, 0| who had consulted him as to the best means of extirpating 114 Intro, 0| our English forefathers, to deal gently with these ancient 115 Intro, 0| habit of meeting together to worship the gods. They would 116 Intro, 0| gods. They would thus come to associate the new religion 117 Intro, 0| attached his hopes and fears to the mysterious unknown which 118 Intro, 0| him. No miracle is needed to explain the political ascendancy 119 Intro, 0| such a man inevitably came to acquire in an Italy deserted 120 Intro, 0| More and more, people came to look on the Pope as their 121 Intro, 0| right of such donations to his See, large tracts of 122 Intro, 0| against the invaders, and came to the relief of the starving 123 Intro, 0| digression from our subject to work out in detail the stages 124 Intro, 0| stages by which the Pope came to take his place first as 125 Intro, 0| her strength. It was given to the Popolana of Siena, by 126 Intro, 0| wavering will of the Pope to return to his See, to bring 127 Intro, 0| will of the Pope to return to his See, to bring about 128 Intro, 0| Pope to return to his See, to bring about what was, for 129 Intro, 0| Christ, seems at every step to impede her victorious advance. * * * ~ 130 Intro, 0| of temper that goes far to discount their actual achievement. 131 Intro, 0| so sweetly reasonable, as to make her the dearest of 132 Intro, 0| her the dearest of friends to all who had the privilege 133 Intro, 0| permanent source of refreshment to the human spirit. She intuitively 134 Intro, 0| those whom she would induce to turn from evil. Similarly 135 Intro, 0| of Catholic theology were to her the necessary and fitting 136 Intro, 0| fitting means of transit, so to speak. See, in the following 137 Intro, 0| heights of vision. "Truth" was to her the handmaid of the 138 Intro, 0| they have nothing but this to offer us, our hearts do 139 Intro, 0| us, our hearts do not run to meet them, as they fly to 140 Intro, 0| to meet them, as they fly to the embrace of those rare 141 Intro, 0| Catherine of Siena was dictated to her secretaries by the Saint 142 Intro, 0| the fact that from first to last it is nothing more 143 Intro, 0| exposition of the creeds taught to every child in the Catholic 144 Intro, 0| the retribution prophesied to the "unworthy ministers 145 Intro, 0| their starting-point what, to most, is the goal hardly 146 Intro, 0| most, is the goal hardly to be reached; their own treatment 147 Intro, 0| faculties, whom it is not unfair to describe as the feuilletonistes 148 Intro, 0| religion they so much resemble. To keep healthy and raise the 149 Intro, 0| advice in the matter was to prefer those writers whose 150 Intro, 0| and familiar as at times to become almost colloquial, 151 Intro, 0| book is held by critics to be one of the classics of 152 Intro, 0| One word as to the translation. I have 153 Intro, 0| editor. My aim has been to translate as literally as 154 Intro, 0| possible, and at the same time to preserve the characteristic 155 Intro, 0| the liberty of adhering to the first simile when the 156 1, 1 | self-knowledge, in order to know better the goodness 157 1, 1 | attained love, can she strive to follow and to clothe herself 158 1, 1 | she strive to follow and to clothe herself with the 159 1, 1 | Himself. Christ would seem to have meant this, when He 160 1, 1 | meant this, when He said: To him who will love Me and 161 1, 1 | of mind, God was not wont to conceal, from the eye of 162 1, 1 | His servants, but rather to manifest it; and, that among 163 1, 1 | among other things, He used to say: "Open the eye of your 164 1, 1 | beauties which I have given to the soul, creating her in 165 1, 1 | clothed with Mine, are united to Mine, are conformed to Mine." 166 1, 1 | united to Mine, are conformed to Mine." It is therefore true, 167 1, 1 | So, that soul, wishing to know and follow the truth 168 1, 1 | doctrine, example, or prayer, to her neighbor, if she did 169 1, 1 | addressed four requests to the Supreme and Eternal 170 1, 1 | besought the Divine Providence to provide for things in general, 171 1, 2 | soul, in which he explained to her the penalties and intolerable 172 1, 2 | which she waited for God to provide against such great 173 1, 2 | such communion, sweetly to bind herself fast within 174 1, 2 | feast of Mary) in order to hear Mass. And, when the 175 1, 2 | imperfection, appearing to herself to be the cause 176 1, 2 | imperfection, appearing to herself to be the cause of all the 177 1, 2 | the stains which seemed to her to cover her guilty 178 1, 2 | stains which seemed to her to cover her guilty soul, she 179 1, 2 | implore You, in Your kindness, to punish them in my person." ~ 180 1, 3 | seized and drew more strongly to Himself her desire, doing 181 1, 3 | the sacrifice was offered to God, a fire descended and 182 1, 3 | fire descended and drew to Him the sacrifice that was 183 1, 3 | sacrifice that was acceptable to Him; so did the sweet Truth 184 1, 3 | so did the sweet Truth to that soul, in sending down 185 1, 3 | this life, are insufficient to punish one smallest fault, 186 1, 3 | the offense, being done to Me, who am the Infinite 187 1, 3 | the pains that are given to men in this life are given 188 1, 3 | as corrections, in order to chastise a son when he offends; 189 1, 3 | desire, that is, are joined to Me by an affection of love, 190 1, 3 | future and gave my body to be burned, and have not 191 1, 3 | it would be worth nothing to me. The glorious Apostle 192 1, 4 | you further ask the will to know and love Me, who am 193 1, 4 | which I had for you, wishing to re-create you to Grace, 194 1, 4 | wishing to re-create you to Grace, I have washed you, 195 1, 4 | Blood teaches the truth to him, who, by self-knowledge, 196 1, 4 | she would not be obliged to do so; whence it follows 197 1, 4 | learnt My truth in this way, to sustain, even unto death, 198 1, 4 | affection which you have to Me, and I will give to them 199 1, 4 | have to Me, and I will give to them according to the disposition 200 1, 4 | will give to them according to the disposition with which 201 1, 4 | My gifts. In particular, to those who dispose themselves, 202 1, 4 | humbly and with reverence, to receive the doctrine of 203 1, 4 | since they will thus come to true knowledge and contrition 204 1, 4 | or less degree, according to the extent of their exercise 205 1, 4 | great in their despair as to condemn them through contempt 206 1, 4 | Sometimes I allow the world to show them what it is, so 207 1, 4 | stability it has, and may come to lift their desire beyond 208 1, 4 | use, through love alone, to lead them back to grace, 209 1, 4 | alone, to lead them back to grace, so that My truth 210 1, 4 | in them. I am constrained to do so by that inestimable 211 1, 4 | do not, in general, grant to these others, for whom they 212 1, 4 | satisfaction for the penalty due to them, but, only for their 213 1, 4 | disposed, on their side, to receive, with perfect love, 214 1, 4 | of those who offer them to Me, for their sakes, with 215 1, 4 | their guilt; for, beginning to learn, they vomit forth 216 1, 4 | them, through mercy, turns to their own ruin and judgment, 217 1, 4 | be broken. And yet, I say to you, that, in spite of his 218 1, 4 | with his own hand apply It to the diamond over his heart 219 1, 4 | giving him memory so as to remember My benefits, intellect, 220 1, 4 | benefits, intellect, so as to see and know the truth, 221 1, 4 | you all, and which ought to render fruit to Me, the 222 1, 4 | which ought to render fruit to Me, the Father; but, if 223 1, 4 | man barters and sells it to the devil, the devil, if 224 1, 4 | if he choose, has a right to seize on everything that 225 1, 4 | hatred, and unkindness to his neighbors (being also 226 1, 4 | sufficient contrition and love to satisfy for the penalty 227 1, 4 | the penalty also, they go to the pains of Purgatory, 228 1, 4 | desire of the soul united to Me, who am the Infinite 229 1, 4 | or less degree, according to the measure of love, obtained 230 1, 4 | with which a man measures to Me, do he receive in himself 231 1, 4 | goodness. Labor, therefore, to increase the fire of your 232 1, 4 | moment pass without crying to Me with humble voice, or 233 1, 4 | your neighbors. I say this to you and to the father of 234 1, 4 | neighbors. I say this to you and to the father of your soul, 235 1, 4 | and make yourselves dead to all your own sensuality." ~ 236 1, 5 | How very pleasing to God is the willing desire 237 1, 5 | God is the willing desire to suffer for Him. ~ 238 1, 5 | Very pleasing to Me, dearest daughter, is 239 1, 5 | daughter, is the willing desire to bear every pain and fatigue, 240 1, 5 | Me; loving Me she comes to know more of My truth, and 241 1, 5 | against Me. You asked Me to sustain you, and to punish 242 1, 5 | asked Me to sustain you, and to punish the faults of others 243 1, 5 | grief. Therefore, I say to you all, that you should 244 1, 5 | you, for I deny nothing to him who asks of Me in truth. 245 1, 5 | reason (if the soul elect to love Me) she should elect 246 1, 5 | love Me) she should elect to endure pains for Me in whatever 247 1, 5 | circumstance I may send them to her. Patience cannot be 248 1, 5 | will not prove yourselves to be spouses of My Truth, 249 1, 6 | hatred of Me, does an injury to his neighbor, and to himself, 250 1, 6 | injury to his neighbor, and to himself, who is his own 251 1, 6 | because you are obliged to love your neighbor as yourself, 252 1, 6 | and loving him, you ought to help him spiritually, with 253 1, 6 | and temporally, according to the need in which he may 254 1, 6 | desires that he is bound to offer for him to Me. Thus, 255 1, 6 | is bound to offer for him to Me. Thus, every act of help 256 1, 6 | follows that he must do evil. To whom does he evil? First 257 1, 6 | does he evil? First of all to himself, and then to his 258 1, 6 | all to himself, and then to his neighbor, not against 259 1, 6 | in so far as I count done to Me that which he does to 260 1, 6 | to Me that which he does to himself. To himself he does 261 1, 6 | which he does to himself. To himself he does the injury 262 1, 6 | worse than this he cannot do to his neighbor. Him he injures 263 1, 6 | love, with which he ought to help him by means of prayer 264 1, 6 | and holy desire offered to Me for him. This is an assistance 265 1, 6 | which is owed in general to every rational creature; 266 1, 6 | particular when it is done to those who are close at hand, 267 1, 6 | hand, under your eyes, as to whom, I say, you are all 268 1, 6 | say, you are all obliged to help one another by word 269 1, 6 | your neighbor may be seen to be in need; counseling him 270 1, 6 | affection of love which he ought to have towards Me, and his 271 1, 6 | his neighbor, according to the diverse ways which may 272 1, 6 | His general cruelty is to see himself and other creatures 273 1, 6 | Being thus cruel he may wish to extend his cruelty still 274 1, 6 | demons, tempting, according to his power, his fellow-creatures 275 1, 6 | power, his fellow-creatures to abandon virtue for vice; 276 1, 6 | makes himself an instrument to destroy life and to give 277 1, 6 | instrument to destroy life and to give death. Cruelty towards 278 1, 6 | neighbor, but causes him to seize the goods of others, 279 1, 6 | his neighbor being forced to redeem, to his own loss, 280 1, 6 | being forced to redeem, to his own loss, his own goods, 281 1, 6 | all mercy, unless he turn to kindness and benevolence 282 1, 6 | neighbor, reputing one's self to be greater than he; and 283 1, 6 | this way is injury done to him. And if a man be in 284 1, 6 | of that which you ought to give him; an open sin is 285 1, 6 | of sin, as I have related to you. It is, therefore, indeed 286 1, 7 | it is that virtues differ to such an extent in creatures. ~ 287 1, 7 | principles which I exposed to you, that is, because men 288 1, 7 | love, which gives light to every virtue. In the same 289 1, 7 | and, therefore, I said to you, that it was in the 290 1, 7 | in the neighbor, that is to say in the love of him, 291 1, 7 | truly indeed did I say to you, that charity gives 292 1, 7 | that charity gives life to all the virtues, because 293 1, 7 | herself. She attributes to Me, through humility, the 294 1, 7 | time with a medium, that is to say, without the medium 295 1, 7 | of any advantage accruing to herself, and with the medium 296 1, 7 | grateful and acceptable to Me, but by conceiving, hatred 297 1, 7 | profit, you should do it to your neighbor. This proves 298 1, 7 | neighbor and making prayers to Me, seeking with sweet and 299 1, 7 | of My truth, never ceases to serve the whole world in 300 1, 7 | particular case according to the disposition of the recipient 301 1, 7 | shown above, when I declared to you that the endurance of 302 1, 7 | desire, was not sufficient to punish a fault. ~ 303 1, 7 | whole world, thus coming to the aid of its neediness, 304 1, 7 | inasmuch as she has done good to herself by the conception 305 1, 7 | drawn the life of grace, to fix her eye on the needs 306 1, 7 | who are at hand, according to the various graces which 307 1, 7 | graces which I have entrusted to her to administer; one she 308 1, 7 | I have entrusted to her to administer; one she helps 309 1, 7 | and this indeed all give to their neighbor, the edification 310 1, 7 | and many others, too many to enumerate, which are brought 311 1, 7 | a different way, that is to say not all to one, but 312 1, 7 | that is to say not all to one, but to one, one virtue, 313 1, 7 | say not all to one, but to one, one virtue, and to 314 1, 7 | to one, one virtue, and to another, another, it so 315 1, 7 | happens that it is impossible to have one, without having 316 1, 7 | cases I give one virtue, to be as it were the chief 317 1, 7 | chief of the others, that is to say, to one I will give 318 1, 7 | others, that is to say, to one I will give principally 319 1, 7 | will give principally love, to another justice, to another 320 1, 7 | love, to another justice, to another humility, to one 321 1, 7 | justice, to another humility, to one a lively faith, to another 322 1, 7 | to one a lively faith, to another prudence or temperance, 323 1, 7 | temperance, or patience, to another fortitude. These, 324 1, 7 | her chief conversation, to this rather than to other 325 1, 7 | conversation, to this rather than to other virtues, and, by the 326 1, 7 | this virtue, the soul draws to herself all the other virtues, 327 1, 7 | for the things necessary to the physical life of man; 328 1, 7 | they should be My ministers to administer the graces and 329 1, 7 | state of life, who is bound to Me with this love." ~ 330 1, 8 | Up to the present, I have taught 331 1, 8 | Now I wish to tell you further, that a 332 1, 8 | proud man can do no harm to a humble one; neither can 333 1, 8 | against one who is faithful to Me, do him any harm; his 334 1, 8 | and other ways. Wherefore, to those, who need the proof 335 1, 8 | is rather proved, that is to say, the justice of a just 336 1, 8 | salvation of souls. I say, also, to you, that, not only is virtue 337 1, 8 | flattery, constantly endeavor to turn a man aside from following 338 1, 8 | neighbor, as I have said to you; and, if fortitude were 339 1, 8 | fortitude were not able to make that good proof of 340 2, 1 | from humility, and renders to each man his due. ~ 341 2, 1 | with discretion, that is to say, if her affection be 342 2, 1 | should be but the means to increase virtue according 343 2, 1 | increase virtue according to the needs of the individual, 344 2, 1 | individual, and according to what the soul sees she can 345 2, 1 | but that which gives life to the tree, to its branches, 346 2, 1 | gives life to the tree, to its branches, and its root, 347 2, 1 | And I have already said to you, that the root of discretion 348 2, 1 | and discreetly, renders to each one his due. Chiefly 349 2, 1 | each one his due. Chiefly to Me in rendering praise and 350 2, 1 | rendering praise and glory to My Name, and in referring 351 2, 1 | My Name, and in referring to Me the graces and the gifts 352 2, 1 | received from Me; and rendering to herself that which she sees 353 2, 1 | that which she sees herself to have merited, knowing that 354 2, 1 | herself, and attributing to Me, and not to herself, 355 2, 1 | attributing to Me, and not to herself, her being, which 356 2, 1 | And she seems to herself to be ungrateful 357 2, 1 | And she seems to herself to be ungrateful for so many 358 2, 1 | has received, and so seems to herself worthy of suffering; 359 2, 1 | becomes odious and displeasing to herself through her guilt. 360 2, 1 | robs Me of the honor due to Me, and attributes it to 361 2, 1 | to Me, and attributes it to herself, through vainglory, 362 2, 1 | really her own she imputes to Me, grieving and murmuring 363 2, 1 | neighbor is cause of scandal to her. Contrariwise those 364 2, 1 | have rendered what is due to Me and to themselves, they 365 2, 1 | rendered what is due to Me and to themselves, they proceed 366 2, 1 | themselves, they proceed to render to their neighbor 367 2, 1 | they proceed to render to their neighbor their principal 368 2, 1 | prayer, which all should pay to each other, and further, 369 2, 1 | helping others according to their needs for salvation, 370 2, 1 | for salvation, as I said to you above. Whatever rank 371 2, 1 | everything that he does to his neighbor is done discreetly 372 2, 2 | soul should conform herself to this parable. ~ 373 2, 2 | with an off-shoot joined to its side, grew in the center 374 2, 2 | of grace and of utility to her neighbor, according 375 2, 2 | her neighbor, according to the zeal of those who come 376 2, 2 | the zeal of those who come to receive fruit from My servants; 377 2, 2 | fruit from My servants; and to Me she renders the sweet 378 2, 2 | odor of glory and praise to My Name, and so fulfills 379 2, 3 | other corporal exercises are to be taken as instruments 380 2, 3 | asking, 'What can I do to endure suffering for You, 381 2, 3 | You, oh Lord?' I replied to you, speaking in your mind, ' 382 2, 3 | and many works.' I wished to show you that he who merely 383 2, 3 | who desires for My sake to mortify his body with many 384 2, 3 | which I have mentioned to you above, intrinsic to 385 2, 3 | to you above, intrinsic to the soul, all of which must 386 2, 3 | be in activity in order to obtain fruits worthy of 387 2, 3 | principle than this, I judge to be a mere calling with words, 388 2, 3 | be grateful and pleasant to Me. And this is because 389 2, 3 | and even that she be made to do so. ~ 390 2, 3 | through various circumstances to complete an action which 391 2, 3 | since, if she continued then to do them, she not only would 392 2, 3 | finite. She ought, therefore, to adopt them as a means, and 393 2, 3 | obliged, some time or other, to leave them, and will then 394 2, 3 | self-will, knowing, that is to say, how to keep the rein 395 2, 3 | knowing, that is to say, how to keep the rein on the body, 396 2, 3 | whenever it should wish to combat the spirit, but the 397 2, 3 | everything, and subject to My will, and this slaying 398 2, 3 | virtue of discretion renders to the soul, that is to say, 399 2, 3 | renders to the soul, that is to say, hatred and disgust 400 2, 3 | assign no particular number to you, because the affection 401 2, 3 | in love, which gives life to all the virtues and good 402 2, 3 | gives himself in excess to the slaying of his body, 403 2, 3 | legitimate reason, was unable to do actual penance. Merit 404 2, 3 | love should be directed to Me endlessly, boundlessly, 405 2, 3 | neither laws nor limits to her love for Me; but her 406 2, 3 | as I have told you) gives to the neighbor a conditioned 407 2, 3 | cause the injury of sin to self in order to be useful 408 2, 3 | of sin to self in order to be useful to others, for, 409 2, 3 | self in order to be useful to others, for, if one single 410 2, 3 | single sin were committed to save the whole world from 411 2, 3 | whole world from Hell, or to obtain one great virtue, 412 2, 3 | indiscreet, for it is not lawful to perform even one act of 413 2, 3 | great virtue and profit to others, by means of the 414 2, 3 | should direct all her powers to My service with a manly 415 2, 3 | the injury of sin in order to be useful to others. This 416 2, 3 | sin in order to be useful to others. This is St. Paul' 417 2, 3 | This is St. Paul's counsel to you when he says that charity 418 2, 3 | says that charity ought to be concerned first with 419 2, 3 | never be of perfect utility to others. Because, when perfection 420 2, 3 | saved through offense done to Me, who am the Infinite 421 2, 3 | a perseverance from end to end, stretching from Heaven 422 2, 3 | stretching from Heaven to earth, that is, from knowledge 423 2, 3 | is, from knowledge of Me to knowledge of self, and from 424 2, 3 | self, and from love of Me to love of others. And the 425 2, 3 | own fragility, she renders to her weakness its due of 426 2, 3 | neighbor, showing her child to him who is in need, both 427 2, 3 | particular, as I have said to you before, so I declare 428 2, 4 | less, and how she prayed to God for the Holy Church, 429 2, 4 | sweetness, He had deigned to reply to her request and 430 2, 4 | He had deigned to reply to her request and to satisfy 431 2, 4 | reply to her request and to satisfy it, giving hope 432 2, 4 | satisfy it, giving hope to the sorrow which she had 433 2, 4 | grew the fire in that soul to such an extent that it was 434 2, 4 | longer possible for the body to endure it without the departure 435 2, 4 | have been possible for her to have lived any longer. This 436 2, 4 | many creatures, and give to them the light of knowledge, 437 2, 4 | divine and eternal love to take Your revenge on me, 438 2, 4 | Your revenge on me, and to do mercy to Your people, 439 2, 4 | revenge on me, and to do mercy to Your people, and never will 440 2, 4 | them mercy. For what is it to me if I have life, and Your 441 2, 4 | which moved You Yourself to create man in Your image 442 2, 4 | in everything belonging to You, the most high and eternal 443 2, 4 | gave him memory in order to receive Your benefits, by 444 2, 4 | through love, and destined him to be such that he might taste 445 2, 4 | with Your kindness, that is to say, we all became Your 446 2, 4 | only-begotten Word, Your Son, to be the Mediator between 447 2, 4 | dignity as Yours descend to such lowliness as our humanity? 448 2, 4 | implore You that You do mercy to Your creatures." ~ 449 2, 5 | towards her, allowing Himself to be constrained by her tears, 450 2, 5 | painful desires force Me to answer you; but marvel, 451 2, 5 | the Holy Church (that is to say the Christian religion) 452 2, 5 | but it is also their duty to feed and hold to those breasts 453 2, 5 | their duty to feed and hold to those breasts the universal 454 2, 5 | other people who should wish to leave the darkness of their 455 2, 5 | bind themselves as members to My Church. See then with 456 2, 5 | receive it, death; that is to say, the precious Blood 457 2, 5 | disposes himself properly to receive it, for It gives 458 2, 5 | every grace, in proportion to the disposition and affection 459 2, 5 | similarly It gives death to him who receives It unworthily, 460 2, 5 | darkness of mortal sin; to him, I say, It gives death 461 2, 5 | an evil minister do harm to him to whom he gives the 462 2, 5 | minister do harm to him to whom he gives the Blood, 463 2, 5 | he gives the Blood, but to himself he does the harm 464 2, 5 | that the Blood does harm to him who receives it unworthily, 465 2, 5 | misery, and has been so cruel to himself and his neighbor. 466 2, 5 | neighbor. He has used cruelty to himself, depriving himself 467 2, 5 | corrupted and not disposed to the possession of eternal 468 2, 5 | My dignity, joined Myself to the baseness of your human 469 2, 5 | human generation, in order to restore it to grace which 470 2, 5 | in order to restore it to grace which you had lost 471 2, 5 | But man was not sufficient to satisfy it, for, even if 472 2, 5 | even if he had satisfied to a certain extent, he could 473 2, 5 | Good. Wishing, however, to restore man, who was enfeebled, 474 2, 5 | suffering in His body even to the opprobrious death of 475 2, 5 | mercy. For My mercy willed to make satisfaction for the 476 2, 5 | satisfaction for the sin of man and to dispose him to that good 477 2, 5 | of man and to dispose him to that good for which I had 478 2, 5 | divine nature, was sufficient to satisfy for the whole human 479 2, 5 | and infinite nature joined to it. The two natures being 480 2, 5 | him fastened and nailed to the Cross in this way. Thus 481 2, 5 | human nature was sufficient to satisfy for guilt, but only 482 2, 5 | that is an inclination to sin, and to every sort of 483 2, 5 | inclination to sin, and to every sort of corporeal 484 2, 5 | fault of Adam was able still to cause a fatal stain; wherefore 485 2, 5 | great Physician, that is to say, of My only-begotten 486 2, 5 | and the child is not fit to endure its bitterness. He 487 2, 5 | painful death of the Cross, to give life to you little 488 2, 5 | the Cross, to give life to you little ones debilitated 489 2, 5 | her, and that inclination to sin, which remains from 490 2, 5 | of the soul is disposed to receive and increase in 491 2, 5 | according as it pleases her to dispose herself willingly 492 2, 5 | she can dispose herself to evil as to good, in spite 493 2, 5 | dispose herself to evil as to good, in spite of her having 494 2, 5 | creature can constrain him to one smallest fault without 495 2, 5 | miserable man, who delights to remain in the mud like a 496 2, 6 | before; and how God promises to do mercy to the world, and 497 2, 6 | God promises to do mercy to the world, and to the Holy 498 2, 6 | mercy to the world, and to the Holy Church, by means 499 2, 6 | And I wish you to know, My daughter, that, 500 2, 6 | re-created and restored to the life of grace, the human