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1501 3, 15 | account abandon desire, so as to no longer yearn for Me or 1502 3, 15 | and ended, as I have said to you, for the soul that desires 1503 3, 15 | am the Infinite God, wish to be served by you with infinite 1504 3, 15 | infinite desire which is united to the tears. When the soul 1505 3, 15 | affection of love has drawn to itself the fruit of the 1506 3, 15 | love which caused her tears to fall, does not cease to 1507 3, 15 | to fall, does not cease to offer Me her blessed desires, 1508 3, 16 | It remains for Me to tell you of the fruit produced 1509 3, 16 | But first will I speak to you of that first class 1510 3, 16 | from which comes damage to their body and soul. I said 1511 3, 16 | their body and soul. I said to you that every tear proceeded 1512 3, 16 | heart grieves in proportion to the love it feels. So worldly 1513 3, 16 | grace is not sufficient to merit eternal life, as has 1514 3, 16 | give him more time in which to repent, as I have already 1515 3, 16 | as I have already said to you in another place. This 1516 3, 16 | pleasing and acceptable to Me. I acted in this way 1517 3, 16 | I said to you that the flowers of 1518 3, 16 | of the heart, displeasing to Me, and full of hatred and 1519 3, 16 | kinds. The first with regard to Me, by which men judge My 1520 3, 16 | that which I did in love, to have been done in hatred; 1521 3, 16 | that which I did in truth to have been done in falsehood; 1522 3, 16 | which I give them for life, to have been given them for 1523 3, 16 | judge everything according to their weak intellect; for 1524 3, 16 | which they will not allow to see or know the Truth. The 1525 3, 16 | the wretched man wishes to set himself up as the judge 1526 3, 16 | unhappinesses of all kinds to their neighbors, and remove 1527 3, 16 | from their mouth in insult to Me and the Blood of My only-begotten 1528 3, 16 | only-begotten Son, and in hatred to their neighbors. And they 1529 3, 16 | their judgment may suggest to them. The unfortunate creatures 1530 3, 16 | the tongue is made only to give honor to Me, and to 1531 3, 16 | made only to give honor to Me, and to confess sins, 1532 3, 16 | to give honor to Me, and to confess sins, and to be 1533 3, 16 | and to confess sins, and to be used in love of virtue, 1534 3, 16 | spiritual privation of grace to the soul, of temporal loss 1535 3, 16 | seven branches drooping to the earth, on which grow 1536 3, 16 | deeds. They stand drooping to the earth because the branches 1537 3, 16 | can turn no other way than to the earth, the fragile disordinate 1538 3, 16 | and the earth is unable to satisfy them. They are insatiable 1539 3, 16 | insatiable and unbearable to themselves, and it is conformable 1540 3, 16 | themselves, and it is conformable to their state that they should 1541 3, 16 | that thing which they have to satiety. This is the reason 1542 3, 16 | never end, though their life to grace ends when they commit 1543 3, 16 | pain, and when he begins to weep the wind strikes the 1544 3, 17 | enamored -- "Thanks, thanks be to You, Supreme and Eternal 1545 3, 17 | and mercy that I may come to You truly in the light, 1546 3, 17 | have clearly demonstrated to me the truth, so that, by 1547 3, 17 | become, stumbling-blocks to me. I beg, Eternal Father, 1548 3, 17 | explain these points also to me. The first is -- when 1549 3, 17 | desirous of serving You, comes to me, or to some other servant 1550 3, 17 | serving You, comes to me, or to some other servant of Yours 1551 3, 17 | some other servant of Yours to ask for counsel, how should 1552 3, 17 | that You replied above to this question -- 'I am He 1553 3, 17 | it please Your Goodness to grant me a few more words 1554 3, 17 | Your servants, and I seem to see the subjects of my prayer, 1555 3, 17 | another, as it might seem to me, a mind full of darkness; 1556 3, 17 | right, O Eternal Father, to judge the one soul to be 1557 3, 17 | Father, to judge the one soul to be in light, and the other 1558 3, 17 | does not, should I be right to judge that he who does the 1559 3, 17 | that You would declare to me in detail, what You have 1560 3, 17 | The second request I have to make is, that You will explain 1561 3, 17 | You will explain further to me about the sign which 1562 3, 17 | would humbly confine myself to the sign of virtue. These 1563 3, 17 | the things which I beg You to tell me, so that I may serve 1564 3, 17 | and servants. For it seems to me that the habit of judging 1565 3, 17 | from You, so I do not wish to fall into this snare." ~ 1566 3, 18 | light of reason is necessary to every soul that wishes to 1567 3, 18 | to every soul that wishes to serve God in truth; and 1568 3, 18 | desire with which she longed to serve Him, turned the eye 1569 3, 18 | the eye of your intellect to see Me, the Infinite Goodness, 1570 3, 18 | you can not hear, that is to say, that the soul that 1571 3, 18 | out of herself, in order to learn the true solution 1572 3, 18 | And the Eternal God said to her, "In order that you 1573 3, 18 | understand what I shall say to you, I shall revert to the 1574 3, 18 | say to you, I shall revert to the beginning of your request 1575 3, 18 | charity. (I shall repeat to you here many things concerning 1576 3, 18 | understand that which you wish to know.) The other two lights 1577 3, 18 | Besides this I will explain to you your request, telling 1578 3, 18 | have already pointed out to you in general. You know, 1579 3, 18 | you life and causes you to walk in the path of truth, 1580 3, 18 | truth, and, by its means, to arrive at Me, the True Light, 1581 3, 18 | It is necessary for you to have two lights derived 1582 3, 18 | this primary light, and to these two I will also add 1583 3, 18 | The first lightens you all to know the transitory nature 1584 3, 18 | your members are bound, to rebel against Me, your Creator ( 1585 3, 18 | any man can be constrained to commit any, even the smallest 1586 3, 18 | Sensuality is contrary to the spirit, and yet, by 1587 3, 18 | sensuality, the soul is able to prove the love which she 1588 3, 18 | also been imposed in order to preserve the soul in true 1589 3, 18 | while I created the soul to Mine own image and similitude, 1590 3, 18 | and beauty, I caused her to be accompanied by the vilest 1591 3, 18 | pride against Me. Wherefore, to one who possesses this light, 1592 3, 18 | is a cause of humiliation to the soul, and is in no way 1593 3, 18 | law does not constrain you to any sin by its strivings, 1594 3, 18 | strivings, but supplies a reason to make you know yourselves 1595 3, 18 | holy faith, of which I said to you that it was the pupil 1596 3, 18 | is necessary in general to every rational creature, 1597 3, 18 | his condition, who wishes to participate in the life 1598 3, 18 | reason of good, that is to say virtue, she cannot love 1599 3, 18 | instrument and means for you to receive My grace, and Myself 1600 3, 18 | should maintain by advancing to grace, by means of virtue. 1601 3, 19 | Grace, or anxiously strive to attain to the second and 1602 3, 19 | anxiously strive to attain to the second and perfect light, 1603 3, 19 | have light, she will wish to arrive at perfection. In 1604 3, 19 | second perfect light are to be found two kinds of perfection; 1605 3, 19 | give themselves up wholly to the castigation of the body, 1606 3, 19 | self-will, as I have explained to you in another place. These 1607 3, 19 | founded on Me, if, that is to say, they act with true 1608 3, 19 | humility, and wholly conformed to the judgment of My Will, 1609 3, 19 | judgment of My Will, and not to that of the will of man. 1610 3, 19 | know why this would happen to them? Because they have 1611 3, 19 | Such as these wish always to choose their own times, 1612 3, 19 | Devil, as I have narrated to you in speaking of the second 1613 3, 19 | spiritual self-will, 'I wish to have that consolation, and 1614 3, 19 | own pleasure, but in order to please God the more, and 1615 3, 19 | God the more, and in order to retain Him the more in my 1616 3, 19 | grace; because it seems to me that I should possess 1617 3, 19 | tedious and insupportable to herself; thus injuring her 1618 3, 19 | she would be illuminated to see that I, the Primary 1619 3, 19 | for your salvation, and to complete the perfection 1620 3, 19 | complete the perfection to which I have elected the 1621 3, 19 | Of whom I will now speak to you, explaining to you the 1622 3, 19 | speak to you, explaining to you the nature of these 1623 3, 20 | fully treated, and the means to avoid judging our neighbor 1624 3, 20 | Those who belong to the third state, which immediately 1625 3, 20 | every event which I permit to happen to them with due 1626 3, 20 | which I permit to happen to them with due reverence, 1627 3, 20 | reverence, as I have mentioned to you when speaking of the 1628 3, 20 | whatever circumstance happens to them. And inasmuch as they 1629 3, 20 | increase her perfection to the glory and praise of 1630 3, 20 | ran, with great eagerness, to the shameful death of the 1631 3, 20 | placed on the battle-field to deliver you from the hands 1632 3, 20 | could ever be, and also to teach you His road, His 1633 3, 20 | My Son, should have said to you: 'Behold, I have made 1634 3, 20 | not you then be negligent to follow, laying yourselves 1635 3, 20 | laying yourselves down to rest in self-love and ignorance 1636 3, 20 | ignorance of the road, presuming to choose to serve Me in your 1637 3, 20 | road, presuming to choose to serve Me in your own way, 1638 3, 20 | and inflamed with love, to the table of holy desire; 1639 3, 20 | having been more anxious to slay their own will than 1640 3, 20 | slay their own will than to slay and mortify their own 1641 3, 20 | a means which helps them to stay their own will, as 1642 3, 20 | their own will, as I said to you when explaining that 1643 3, 20 | deeds, and so ought you to do. Their principal desire 1644 3, 20 | principal desire should be to slay their own will, so 1645 3, 20 | wish anything else than to follow My sweet Truth, Christ 1646 3, 20 | for they remain attached to Me by the umbilical cord 1647 3, 20 | sees, saying: 'Thanks be to You, Eternal Father, who 1648 3, 20 | he sees, than if he were to see all traveling by one 1649 3, 20 | that of others. That is to say, in their own case they 1650 3, 20 | own case they are content to endure anything for My Name' 1651 3, 20 | and when an injury is done to some one else, they endure 1652 3, 20 | they never assume the right to judge the will of men, but 1653 3, 20 | purity, and were praying to Me with a great desire of 1654 3, 20 | You know what was replied to you, while you were asleep, 1655 3, 20 | remember truly, you returned to your waking body, when My 1656 3, 20 | Unite yourself always to Me by the affection of love, 1657 3, 20 | and the closer the soul is to Me, the purer she becomes, 1658 3, 20 | unites herself directly to Me, participates in My Purity. 1659 3, 20 | thing is necessary for you to arrive at this union and 1660 3, 20 | creature whatsoever, either to yourself or to others. My 1661 3, 20 | whatsoever, either to yourself or to others. My will alone should 1662 3, 20 | thorns the rose, that is to say, offer them to Me, with 1663 3, 20 | that is to say, offer them to Me, with holy compassion. 1664 3, 20 | the case of injuries done to yourself, judge that My 1665 3, 20 | will permits this in order to prove virtue in yourself, 1666 3, 20 | but My will, not in order to judge, but, as has been 1667 3, 20 | more or less according to the gravity of his contempt, 1668 3, 20 | everything which I give or permit to happen to you, I give so 1669 3, 20 | give or permit to happen to you, I give so that you 1670 3, 20 | and thus remains united to Me. Wherefore, in order 1671 3, 20 | Me. Wherefore, in order to arrive at purity, you must 1672 3, 20 | purity, you must entreat Me to do three things: to grant 1673 3, 20 | entreat Me to do three things: to grant you to be united to 1674 3, 20 | three things: to grant you to be united to Me by the affection 1675 3, 20 | to grant you to be united to Me by the affection of love, 1676 3, 20 | the eye of your intellect to see the affection of My 1677 3, 20 | and in the will of others to discern My will only, and 1678 3, 20 | This was the doctrine given to you by My Truth, if you 1679 3, 20 | nevertheless, in order to satisfy your desire more 1680 3, 21 | Why did I say to you that they received the 1681 3, 21 | payment, because they wait to receive it in Me, the Eternal 1682 3, 21 | namely that the soul begins to hunger for the honor of 1683 3, 21 | hungry, she eats, that is to say, nourishes herself with 1684 3, 21 | guarantee which is given to man, in virtue of which 1685 3, 21 | which he expects one day to receive his payment, not 1686 3, 21 | through the offense done to Me by the law of perversity 1687 3, 21 | of Mine, as I have said to you in another place, who 1688 3, 22 | this soul, rendering thanks to God, humiliates herself; 1689 3, 22 | after these things, she asks to hear something about the 1690 3, 22 | Father, have manifested to me Your Truth, and the hidden 1691 3, 22 | pilgrimage, may know how to avoid being deceived by 1692 3, 22 | ourselves! What moved you to do it? Love, because You 1693 3, 22 | Love! Thanks, thanks be to You, Eternal Father! I am 1694 3, 22 | Perfection and Light, have shown to me perfection, and the resplendent 1695 3, 22 | and You have brought me to life. I was sick, and You 1696 3, 22 | given by Your goodness to me and to whoever wishes 1697 3, 22 | Your goodness to me and to whoever wishes to follow 1698 3, 22 | me and to whoever wishes to follow it, because without 1699 3, 22 | without You is nothing done. To You, then, Eternal Father, 1700 3, 22 | Church, that this truth given to me, miserable one, by You, 1701 3, 22 | they will be my refreshment to the glory and praise of 1702 3, 22 | straight road, pure, and dead to their own will and opinion, 1703 3, 22 | I make another petition to You for my two fathers, 1704 3, 22 | have placed on the earth to guard and instruct me, miserable 1705 3, 22 | soul, and that they attend to nothing else than to complete 1706 3, 22 | attend to nothing else than to complete in themselves, 1707 3, 22 | no daughter, may behave to them with due reverence 1708 3, 22 | You, in a way that will be to Your honor, and their peace 1709 3, 22 | their peace and quiet, and to the edification of the neighbor. 1710 3, 22 | petitions that I have made to You, because I know, from 1711 3, 22 | what it has pleased You to manifest, and still more 1712 3, 22 | You will give me grace, to observe Your commandments 1713 3, 22 | remember a word which you said to me in speaking of the ministers 1714 3, 22 | ministers of the holy Church, to the effect that You would 1715 3, 22 | effect that You would speak to me more distinctly, in some 1716 3, 22 | should please Your goodness to tell me anything of this 1717 3, 22 | will gladly hear it, so as to have material for increasing 1718 3, 23 | renders this soul attentive to prayer, replying to one 1719 3, 23 | attentive to prayer, replying to one of the above-mentioned 1720 3, 23 | her requests, proceeded to satisfy the last petition, 1721 3, 23 | apply yourself attentively to pray for all rational creatures, 1722 3, 23 | love, and be careful not to be negligent in giving them 1723 3, 23 | encouraging virtue according to your power. ~ 1724 3, 23 | given you, of whom you spoke to Me, know that you are, in 1725 3, 23 | each receive, according to their needs and fitness. 1726 3, 23 | receive that which he is fit to receive; and every minister, 1727 3, 23 | that which I have given him to administer, each in his 1728 3, 23 | in his own way, according to what he has received and 1729 3, 24 | Now I will reply to that which you asked Me 1730 3, 24 | dearest daughter, speak to you of the dignity of priests, 1731 3, 24 | general love which I have had to My creatures, creating you 1732 3, 24 | and re-creating you all to the life of grace in the 1733 3, 24 | Wherefore, as I have said to you, I, God, have become 1734 3, 24 | greatness is given in general to all rational creatures, 1735 3, 24 | Son, may be administered to you. To them have I given 1736 3, 24 | be administered to you. To them have I given the Sun 1737 3, 24 | them have I given the Sun to administer, giving them 1738 3, 24 | and warms whoever wishes to be warmed by it, and is 1739 3, 24 | and the same Sun; that is to say, I, the Eternal God, 1740 3, 24 | Son and the Holy Spirit. To the Holy Spirit is attributed 1741 3, 24 | Spirit is attributed fire and to the Son wisdom, by which 1742 3, 24 | may administer this light to others, with gratitude for 1743 3, 24 | light of My Divinity united to the color of your humanity, 1744 3, 24 | Blood in drink. I have said to you that this Body is, as 1745 3, 24 | from each other, as I said to you in another place that 1746 3, 24 | a mirror the reflection to be seen in it is not broken; 1747 3, 24 | whole world should come to you in order to take light 1748 3, 24 | should come to you in order to take light from it -- the 1749 3, 24 | in this light, according to the substance into which 1750 3, 24 | the whole light, that is to say, the heat, the color, 1751 3, 24 | Now the same thing happens to those who receive this Sacrament. 1752 3, 24 | Your being, given to you through love, has received 1753 3, 24 | this Divine Flame, that is to say, the Holy Faith, which 1754 3, 24 | or less lighted according to the material which it brings 1755 3, 24 | material which it brings to the fire; for although you 1756 3, 24 | that you are all created to My image and similitude, 1757 3, 24 | been said, coming with love to receive this Sweet and Glorious 1758 3, 24 | receive this Light according to the love and fiery desire 1759 3, 24 | this Sacrament, according to the holy desire with which 1760 3, 24 | which you dispose yourselves to receive it. He who should 1761 3, 24 | receive it. He who should go to this sweet Sacrament in 1762 3, 24 | contrition and confession, goes to the table of the altar to 1763 3, 24 | to the table of the altar to receive this Light with 1764 3, 24 | Church, He is administered to whoever will receive Him. 1765 3, 24 | that, if all the world came to take light from it, each 1766 3, 25 | sentiments unless she wish to be -- that is, unless she 1767 3, 25 | How is this Sacrament to be truly tasted, seen, and 1768 3, 25 | soul. With what eye is It to be seen? With the eye of 1769 3, 25 | Christ, the Soul united to the Body, the Body and the 1770 3, 25 | detached from Me, as I revealed to you, if you remember well, 1771 3, 25 | intellect remained. I showed it to you for your enlightenment 1772 3, 25 | you in this Sacrament; and to make you increase in love 1773 3, 25 | that you went one morning to church at sunrise to hear 1774 3, 25 | morning to church at sunrise to hear Mass, having beforehand 1775 3, 25 | Crucifix, while the priest went to the Altar of Mary; you stood 1776 3, 25 | of Mary; you stood there to consider your sin, fearing 1777 3, 25 | consider your sin, fearing to have offended Me through 1778 3, 25 | had been causing you, and to consider My love, which 1779 3, 25 | which had made you worthy to hear Mass, seeing that you 1780 3, 25 | deemed yourself unworthy to enter into My holy temple. 1781 3, 25 | When the minister came to consecrate, you raised your 1782 3, 25 | and I manifested Myself to you, and you saw issue from 1783 3, 25 | sight was not strong enough to stand the light, and in 1784 3, 25 | the other vision, that is to say, the sight of the God-Man 1785 3, 25 | goodness, as I have said to you. The eye of the intellect 1786 3, 25 | the hand of love, as if to certify to herself that 1787 3, 25 | of love, as if to certify to herself that which she has 1788 3, 25 | which I have made her worthy to receive the tremendous mystery 1789 3, 25 | way that has been said, to receive, and taste, and 1790 3, 26 | remains in the soul, that is to say, the heat of My Divine 1791 3, 26 | Spirit. There also remains to you the wisdom of My only-begotten 1792 3, 26 | intellect has been illuminated to see and to know the doctrine 1793 3, 26 | been illuminated to see and to know the doctrine of My 1794 3, 26 | this True Sun has returned to Its Center, not that it 1795 3, 26 | It, but constantly united to Me. The Abyss of My loving 1796 3, 26 | Divine Providence, coming to the help of your needs, 1797 3, 26 | constrained and obliged to render Me love, because 1798 3, 27 | better recognize the dignity to which I have called My ministers, 1799 3, 27 | if they gave their bodies to be burned, they would not 1800 3, 27 | office of administering Me to you, and have placed them 1801 3, 27 | dignity, for I have given it to those men whom I have chosen 1802 3, 27 | ministration of prayer, as I said to you in another place. But 1803 3, 27 | fellow-creatures, administering to them the Body and Blood 1804 3, 27 | mind. And I wish their body to be preserved, as the instrument 1805 3, 27 | and I do not wish them to feed upon and wallow in 1806 3, 27 | in the mire of filth, or to be inflated by pride, seeking 1807 3, 27 | seeking great prelacies, or to be cruel to themselves or 1808 3, 27 | prelacies, or to be cruel to themselves or to their fellow-creatures, 1809 3, 27 | be cruel to themselves or to their fellow-creatures, 1810 3, 27 | they cannot use cruelty to themselves without being 1811 3, 27 | themselves without being cruel to their fellow-creatures; 1812 3, 27 | if by sin they are cruel to themselves, they are cruel 1813 3, 27 | themselves, they are cruel to the souls of their neighbors, 1814 3, 27 | example of life, nor care to draw them out of the hands 1815 3, 27 | hands of the Devil, nor to administer to them the Body 1816 3, 27 | Devil, nor to administer to them the Body and Blood 1817 3, 27 | So that, in being cruel to themselves, they are cruel 1818 3, 27 | themselves, they are cruel to others." ~ 1819 3, 28 | I will now speak to you, in order to give a 1820 3, 28 | now speak to you, in order to give a little refreshment 1821 3, 28 | give a little refreshment to your soul, and to mitigate 1822 3, 28 | refreshment to your soul, and to mitigate your grief at the 1823 3, 28 | ministers, of whom I have spoken to you, who are like the sun, 1824 3, 28 | will you the better be able to understand the darkness 1825 3, 28 | the Sun, have become like to It, as I told you of Peter, 1826 3, 28 | Church, the Light, that is to say, the Body and the Blood 1827 3, 28 | administered, according to his state, the grace of 1828 3, 28 | the eye of his intellect to know Me, who gave him both 1829 3, 28 | the reason of sin, that is to say, his own self-love, 1830 3, 28 | he cannot, as I have said to you, have one power of his 1831 3, 28 | of his soul so ordered as to receive Me, the True Sun, 1832 3, 28 | the earth of their souls to germinate with Its heat. 1833 3, 28 | the holy Church, in order to administer Me, the Sun, 1834 3, 28 | administer Me, the Sun, that is to say, the Body and Blood 1835 3, 28 | they cause barren souls to bear fruit, illuminating 1836 3, 28 | with them, as I narrated to you in another place, and 1837 3, 28 | the holy Church, according to the position to which I 1838 3, 28 | according to the position to which I have elected him: 1839 3, 28 | virtue from Me. If you turn to Augustine, and to the glorious 1840 3, 28 | you turn to Augustine, and to the glorious Thomas and 1841 3, 28 | rendering glory and praise to My Name, and, to their own 1842 3, 28 | praise to My Name, and, to their own sensuality, hatred 1843 3, 28 | body, came, like angels, to the table of the altar, 1844 3, 28 | they first had done justice to themselves, they therefore 1845 3, 28 | they therefore did justice to those under them, wishing 1846 3, 28 | those under them, wishing to see them live virtuously, 1847 3, 28 | My Truth, whom I gave you to lead your sheep, having 1848 3, 28 | little or much, according to the graveness of the fault. 1849 3, 28 | the fault. And, in order to correct it and to speak 1850 3, 28 | order to correct it and to speak the truth, they did 1851 3, 28 | people and caused holy fear to be with them, and unity 1852 3, 28 | when it had already begun to corrupt, placed ointment 1853 3, 28 | corruption of mortal sin, to apply to him the ointment 1854 3, 28 | of mortal sin, to apply to him the ointment of soft 1855 3, 28 | putrefaction would rather spread to the other members, who, 1856 3, 28 | physician, good and true to those souls, as were those 1857 3, 28 | And, were the member still to remain obstinate in his 1858 3, 28 | doing, they even pretend not to see. And do you know why? 1859 3, 28 | fear. Because they fear to lose their position or their 1860 3, 28 | which their position is to be kept. If they would only 1861 3, 28 | justice they would be able to maintain it; but they do 1862 3, 28 | of light. But, thinking to preserve their position 1863 3, 28 | fear, they make believe not to see. And, moreover, if they 1864 3, 28 | correct, but allow themselves to be bound over with flattering 1865 3, 28 | for the guilty ones not to be punished. In such as 1866 3, 28 | ministers, of whom I spoke to you, who have the properties 1867 3, 28 | the world. They fear not to correct, for he who does 1868 3, 28 | or prelacy will not fear to lose it, and will reprove 1869 3, 28 | of whom I have narrated to you), but was resplendent 1870 3, 28 | supernatural grace given to them, of administering the 1871 3, 28 | angel, which I give you to be your guardian, ministers 1872 3, 28 | your guardian, ministers to you holy and good inspirations, 1873 3, 28 | were given by My goodness to be guardians, and therefore 1874 3, 28 | body of the holy Church, to be your guardians, so that 1875 3, 28 | blind ones may have guides to direct you into the way 1876 3, 28 | liberality, did they distribute to the poor the substance of 1877 3, 28 | which they were really bound to do, that is, to distribute 1878 3, 28 | really bound to do, that is, to distribute the temporal 1879 3, 28 | distribute the temporal substance to their own necessity being 1880 3, 28 | anything should diminish to them, either spiritual or 1881 3, 28 | My providence be measured to them. The miserable presumptuous 1882 3, 28 | his labor may be reputed to be in vain, who watches 1883 3, 28 | his labor or solicitude to keep it, because I alone 1884 3, 28 | is true that I desire you to use your being, and exercise 1885 3, 28 | they received the faculty to be strong and powerful against 1886 3, 28 | He only who feels himself to be alone, and hopes in himself, 1887 3, 28 | who give supreme security to the soul who possesses Me 1888 3, 28 | was because I responded to the love, faith, and hope 1889 3, 28 | would not be sufficient to relate their virtues, neither 1890 3, 28 | the eye of your intellect to see the fruit which they 1891 3, 28 | but rather recognized it to be from Me, and exercised 1892 3, 28 | souls they gave themselves to die, to get them out of 1893 3, 28 | gave themselves to die, to get them out of the hands 1894 3, 28 | overcome with despair, and to give them more courage in 1895 3, 28 | oftentimes lend countenance to their infirmity and say, ' 1896 3, 28 | and thus sweetly they knew to give everyone his nourishment, 1897 3, 28 | appeared particularly difficult to the penitent. Wherefore 1898 3, 28 | with love they knew how to be all things to all men, 1899 3, 28 | knew how to be all things to all men, and to give to 1900 3, 28 | all things to all men, and to give to each one his nourishment. 1901 3, 28 | to all men, and to give to each one his nourishment. 1902 3, 28 | nourishment. What caused them to do thus? The hunger and 1903 3, 28 | conceived in Me. They ran to feed on it at the table 1904 3, 28 | and exposed themselves to every peril with true patience, 1905 3, 29 | reverence which should be paid to priests, whether they are 1906 3, 29 | authority I do not wish them to be punished by the hand 1907 3, 29 | miserably. But I wish seculars to hold them in due reverence, 1908 3, 29 | whose goodness I have spoken to you; for all alike have 1909 3, 29 | This dignity belongs to good and bad alike -- all 1910 3, 29 | alike -- all have the Sun to administer, as has been 1911 3, 29 | condition of light, that is to say, they illuminate and 1912 3, 29 | heat they cause virtues to spring up and bear fruit 1913 3, 29 | subjects. I have appointed them to be in very truth your guardian 1914 3, 29 | truth your guardian angels to protect you; to inspire 1915 3, 29 | guardian angels to protect you; to inspire your hearts with 1916 3, 29 | their holy prayers, and to teach you My doctrine reflected 1917 3, 29 | mirror of their life, and to serve you by administering 1918 3, 29 | serve you by administering to you the holy Sacraments, 1919 3, 29 | that besides the dignity to which I have appointed them, 1920 3, 29 | did those of whom I spoke to you, which are all bound 1921 3, 29 | are all bound and obliged to possess, and in what great 1922 3, 29 | My Christs, and you ought to love and reverence the authority 1923 3, 29 | of the lord who sent it to you. His state would indeed 1924 3, 29 | is your duty according to the demands of charity, 1925 3, 29 | charity, and thus I wish you to act with regard to such 1926 3, 29 | wish you to act with regard to such badly ordered priests, 1927 3, 29 | great Treasures -- that is to say, the Sacraments of the 1928 3, 29 | Eternal God, who send them to you, and through love of 1929 3, 29 | by which they administer to you the whole of God and 1930 3, 29 | the whole of Man, that is to say, the Body and Blood 1931 3, 29 | and Blood of My Son united to My Divine nature. Their 1932 3, 29 | with love and holy prayer to re-clothe them, washing 1933 3, 29 | with your tears -- that is to say, that you should offer 1934 3, 29 | charity. Know well that I wish to do them grace, if only they 1935 3, 29 | will dispose themselves to receive it, and you to pray 1936 3, 29 | themselves to receive it, and you to pray for it; for it is not 1937 3, 29 | for it is not according to My will that they should 1938 3, 29 | that they should administer to you the Sun being themselves 1939 3, 29 | contrary I have given them to you, and appointed them 1940 3, 29 | you, and appointed them to be earthly angels and suns, 1941 3, 29 | leaving their judgment to Me. And I, moved by your 1942 3, 29 | extremity, and they will be sent to the eternal fire." ~ 1943 3, 30 | indeed the truth, I wish to speak to you in more detail 1944 3, 30 | the truth, I wish to speak to you in more detail on this 1945 3, 30 | of the soul of a just man to those of a sinner, and how 1946 3, 30 | greater or less according to the perfection of his soul. 1947 3, 30 | his soul. For I wish you to know that all the sufferings 1948 3, 30 | labors cause no suffering to a will which gladly endures 1949 3, 30 | Wherefore when they come to the point of death, they 1950 3, 30 | when enemies were coming to attack the city of his soul, 1951 3, 30 | stranger be friend or enemy. To a friend, that is to say, 1952 3, 30 | enemy. To a friend, that is to say, to virtue and holy 1953 3, 30 | friend, that is to say, to virtue and holy thoughts, 1954 3, 30 | these with great solicitude; to an enemy, that is to say, 1955 3, 30 | solicitude; to an enemy, that is to say, to vice and wicked 1956 3, 30 | an enemy, that is to say, to vice and wicked thoughts, 1957 3, 30 | reproves herself, seeming to herself to have used her 1958 3, 30 | herself, seeming to herself to have used her time but little; 1959 3, 30 | herself, is caused by it to throw herself before the 1960 3, 30 | man does not turn his head to admire his past virtues, 1961 3, 30 | yet they come round him to see if they can acquire 1962 3, 30 | horrible shapes in order to frighten him with hideous 1963 3, 30 | or fear, as it would do to another who had lived wickedly 1964 3, 30 | who already is beginning to taste eternal life, as I 1965 3, 30 | eternal life, as I said to you in another place, for 1966 3, 30 | Eternal Good, whom she hopes to obtain by grace, not as 1967 3, 30 | hands of love, she seems to enter into His possession 1968 3, 30 | way which I have narrated to you in another place. Passing 1969 3, 30 | in this sweet manner, but to a far greater extent by 1970 3, 30 | ministers, of whom I spoke to you, who have lived like 1971 3, 30 | reward is measured according to the measure of your love, 1972 3, 30 | has no science can attain to this love, I should reply, 1973 3, 30 | possible that he may attain to it, but an individual case 1974 3, 30 | law and I always discourse to you in general. ~ 1975 3, 30 | charity with his neighbor, to them is given the office 1976 3, 30 | their souls when they come to the extremity of death! 1977 3, 30 | and preachers of the faith to their neighbor. This faith 1978 3, 30 | them now with great delight to lift their confidence towards 1979 3, 30 | doctrine of their words to their neighbor. This heart 1980 3, 30 | ineffable love, restoring to Me the pearl of justice 1981 3, 30 | before it, doing justice to all, and discreetly rendering 1982 3, 30 | and discreetly rendering to each his due. Wherefore 1983 3, 30 | Wherefore this man renders to Me justice with true humility, 1984 3, 30 | renders glory and praise to My Name, because he refers 1985 3, 30 | Name, because he refers to Me the grace of having been 1986 3, 30 | grace of having been able to run his course with a pure 1987 3, 30 | gives good testimony of him to Me, and I justly give him 1988 3, 30 | holy doctrine and example to eternal life, and have left 1989 3, 30 | Oh, dearest daughter! to such as these the vision 1990 3, 30 | arranged in his place, and to each one is measured of 1991 3, 30 | according as he has measured to Me." ~ 1992 3, 31 | misery as I have related to you. How terrible and dark 1993 3, 31 | and his error brings him to great confusion. ~ 1994 3, 31 | life he lived unfaithfully to Me -- self-love having veiled 1995 3, 31 | with infidelity in order to bring him to despair. Oh! 1996 3, 31 | infidelity in order to bring him to despair. Oh! how hard for 1997 3, 31 | battle they know not what to do. They are not nourished 1998 3, 31 | see that all was counted to him with interest, and that 1999 3, 31 | as a debtor he would have to render an account to Me; 2000 3, 31 | have to render an account to Me; now he finds himself