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2001 3, 31 | in his life accuses him to his conscience, wherefore 2002 3, 31 | is the effect of Mercy, to cause them to hope therein 2003 3, 31 | of Mercy, to cause them to hope therein during their 2004 3, 31 | is much more displeasing to Me and injures them much 2005 3, 31 | this sin is more dangerous to them and displeasing to 2006 3, 31 | to them and displeasing to Me, because they commit 2007 3, 31 | your nature which moves you to despair, for there is no 2008 3, 31 | My mercy, making his sin to be greater than mercy and 2009 3, 31 | not for the offense done to Me, and therefore he receives 2010 3, 31 | this sin alone leads him to hell, where he is punished 2011 3, 31 | repented for the offense done to Me, and hoped in My mercy, 2012 3, 31 | mercy, for, as I have said to you, My mercy is greater 2013 3, 31 | should consider their sins to be greater. ~ 2014 3, 31 | so much that I wish them to hope in My mercy at the 2015 3, 31 | they are not so inclined to abandon it, on account of 2016 3, 31 | devils shout and render to you the reward which they 2017 3, 31 | which they are accustomed to give their servants, that 2018 3, 31 | their servants, that is to say, confusion and condemnation; 2019 3, 31 | condemnation; they wish to bring you to despair, so 2020 3, 31 | they wish to bring you to despair, so that at the 2021 3, 31 | and therefore they try to confuse you, so that afterwards 2022 3, 31 | with them they may render to you of the part which is 2023 3, 31 | really is, and you know to your shame that you have 2024 3, 31 | Church, that you see yourself to be a thief, a debtor, who 2025 3, 31 | thief, a debtor, who ought to pay his debt to the poor 2026 3, 31 | who ought to pay his debt to the poor and the holy Church. 2027 3, 31 | your conscience represents to you that you have spent 2028 3, 31 | Your conscience represents to you the divine office which 2029 3, 31 | you your subjects, that is to say, the love and hunger 2030 3, 31 | charge of souls unjustly to one of your subjects, that 2031 3, 31 | you have not considered to whom and how you were giving 2032 3, 31 | conscience, because you ought to have given it, not on account 2033 3, 31 | pleasant words, nor in order to please creatures, nor for 2034 3, 31 | but solely with regard to virtue, My honor and the 2035 3, 31 | have done and ought not to have done, and that which 2036 3, 31 | and that which you ought to have done and have not done. ~ 2037 3, 31 | I wish you to know, dearest daughter, 2038 3, 31 | separated. So it happens to these wretches, to these 2039 3, 31 | happens to these wretches, to these in particular and 2040 3, 31 | these in particular and to all others in general, for 2041 3, 31 | death when the soul begins to see its woes, and the just 2042 3, 31 | evil life is represented to a wicked man, and there 2043 3, 31 | the virtues which he ought to have practiced. Why the 2044 3, 31 | devoid of any; and I wish you to know that in this knowledge 2045 3, 31 | but so that he may come to a perfect self-knowledge 2046 3, 31 | the doctrine of My truth to Me and not to himself, wherefore 2047 3, 31 | of My truth to Me and not to himself, wherefore he exalts 2048 3, 31 | way which I have related to you in another place. So 2049 3, 31 | So that the one, that is to say, the just man, who has 2050 3, 31 | To the just man the appearance 2051 3, 31 | harm can only be caused to him by sin; but those who 2052 3, 31 | and the battle of death to a just man and to a sinner, 2053 3, 31 | death to a just man and to a sinner, and how different 2054 3, 31 | I have shown to the eye of your intellect 2055 3, 31 | have shown you with regard to what it really is, to the 2056 3, 31 | regard to what it really is, to the suffering, that is, 2057 3, 31 | ministry which I entrusted to them, appointing them to 2058 3, 31 | to them, appointing them to administer the sun of the 2059 3, 31 | light of science, in order to discern the truth both for 2060 3, 31 | and others had they wished to; wherefore they justly receive 2061 3, 31 | all, they would not come to such misery, but would be 2062 3, 31 | be that which they ought to be and are not. For the 2063 3, 31 | than seculars, according to their state; for with their 2064 3, 31 | pale, because they divert to themselves the love and 2065 3, 31 | charity which they should have to this divine spouse, and 2066 3, 31 | properties, when they ought to be seeking souls. Wherefore 2067 3, 31 | irreverent and disobedient to the holy Church, not that 2068 3, 31 | they ought on that account to do so, or that their sins 2069 3, 32 | bitterness, turned herself to the Supreme and Eternal 2070 3, 32 | moved You, Infinite God, to illuminate me, Your finite 2071 3, 32 | constrained and constrains You to create us in Your image 2072 3, 32 | image and similitude, and to do us mercy, giving immeasurable 2073 3, 32 | immeasurable and infinite graces to Your rational creatures. 2074 3, 32 | Your only-begotten Son, to converse with us filthy 2075 3, 32 | made Yourself low and small to make man great. On whichever 2076 3, 32 | wretch like me pay back to You the graces and the burning 2077 3, 32 | burning love in particular to me beyond common charity, 2078 3, 32 | and the love that You show to all Your creatures? No, 2079 3, 32 | from You, who give them to me through love, and not 2080 3, 32 | have manifested Yourself to me, Sweet above all sweetness, 2081 3, 32 | according as it has pleased You to manifest it to me, I have 2082 3, 32 | pleased You to manifest it to me, I have known the excellence 2083 3, 32 | grace which You have given to the human race, administering 2084 3, 32 | human race, administering to it the entire God- Man in 2085 3, 32 | whom You have appointed to administer You to us. I 2086 3, 32 | appointed to administer You to us. I desired that You would 2087 3, 32 | the promise that You made to me, and You gave much more, 2088 3, 32 | more even than I knew how to ask for. Wherefore I know 2089 3, 32 | heart of man knows not how to ask or desire as much as 2090 3, 32 | anointed ones, who ought to be earthly angels in this 2091 3, 32 | offense and the harm done to the whole world, for they 2092 3, 32 | world, for they do harm to the world, being mirrors 2093 3, 32 | mirrors of sin when they ought to be mirrors of virtue. And 2094 3, 32 | grieved over their iniquities to me -- a wretch who am the 2095 3, 32 | love, have manifested this to me, giving me a sweet and 2096 3, 32 | negligence, and have recourse to You with anxious and solicitous 2097 3, 32 | Pacific. Thanks, thanks to You, oh! Father, for having 2098 3, 32 | grief You have invited me to offer before You sweet, 2099 3, 32 | You that You will do mercy to the world and to the holy 2100 3, 32 | do mercy to the world and to the holy Church. I pray 2101 3, 32 | holy Church. I pray You to fulfill that which You caused 2102 3, 32 | that which You caused me to ask You. Alas! what a wretched 2103 3, 32 | Ah me! You cause them to cry in order to hear their 2104 3, 32 | cause them to cry in order to hear their voices! Your 2105 3, 32 | voices! Your truth told us to cry out, and we should be 2106 3, 32 | and we should be answered; to knock, and it would be opened 2107 3, 32 | and it would be opened to us; to beg, and it would 2108 3, 32 | it would be opened to us; to beg, and it would be given 2109 3, 32 | beg, and it would be given to us. Oh! Eternal Father, 2110 3, 32 | Your servants do cry out to Your mercy; do You then 2111 3, 32 | destroy it or refuse it to him who asks for it. Your 2112 3, 32 | cannot refrain from opening to him who knocks with perseverance. 2113 3, 32 | wherefore You can not deny it to any one who truly asks for 2114 3, 32 | the fruit of Your Blood to Your creatures. Place in 2115 3, 32 | are the Good Shepherd who, to fulfill Your obedience, 2116 3, 32 | begging You through it to do mercy to the world, and 2117 3, 32 | You through it to do mercy to the world, and to cause 2118 3, 32 | mercy to the world, and to cause Your holy Church to 2119 3, 32 | to cause Your holy Church to bloom with the fragrant 2120 3, 32 | servants, You would do mercy to the world, and reform the 2121 3, 32 | for You must first reply to us before we can cry out 2122 3, 32 | love which You have given to Your servants, that they 2123 3, 32 | that they knock and cry to You, seeking Your honor 2124 3, 32 | the bread of life, that is to say, the fruit of the Blood 2125 3, 32 | their hardness of heart. To You, Eternal Father, everything 2126 3, 32 | without it. I beg of You to force their wills, and dispose 2127 3, 32 | wills, and dispose them to wish for that for which 2128 3, 32 | are in existence, do mercy to us, and remake the vessels 2129 3, 32 | vessels which You have created to Your image and likeness. 2130 3, 32 | likeness. Re-create them to Grace in Your mercy and 2131 4, 1 | dearest daughter, have a right to be heard, and inasmuch as 2132 4, 1 | the promise which I made to you, and satisfying your 2133 4, 1 | ask Me where obedience is to be found, and what is the 2134 4, 1 | this virtue, that, in order to fulfill it, He hastened 2135 4, 1 | fulfill it, He hastened to the shameful death of the 2136 4, 1 | by self- love, and desire to please his companion. This 2137 4, 1 | whole human race, as I said to you. The sign that you have 2138 4, 1 | indeed so, when I speak to you further concerning this 2139 4, 1 | but united as I explained to you of the precepts and 2140 4, 1 | much loved, did not return to Me, his End, took the keys 2141 4, 1 | that 'no one could come to Me, the Father, if not by 2142 4, 1 | by Him.' When He returned to Me, rising to Heaven from 2143 4, 1 | He returned to Me, rising to Heaven from the conversation 2144 4, 1 | whom you are all obliged to obey until death, and whoever 2145 4, 1 | another place. Now I wish you to see and know this most excellent 2146 4, 1 | holy faith. He was faithful to Me, His eternal Father, 2147 4, 1 | has given her as a sister to obedience, and so closely 2148 4, 1 | is obedient in proportion to her humility, and humble 2149 4, 1 | and humble in proportion to her obedience. This humility 2150 4, 1 | self-contempt, and insult, desire to displease herself, and to 2151 4, 1 | to displease herself, and to please Me. Where does she 2152 4, 1 | mockings. He caused pain to Himself in His bodily life, 2153 4, 1 | His bodily life, in order to please Me. And who was more 2154 4, 1 | cannot stumble, or be caused to fall, without perceiving 2155 4, 1 | disobedience; for as I spoke to you of a companion virtue 2156 4, 1 | sister given by self-love to disobedience is impatience, 2157 4, 1 | darkness, which leads her to eternal death. All this 2158 4, 2 | fasten it by means of a cord to her girdle, and of the excellences 2159 4, 2 | shown you where obedience is to be found, and whence she 2160 4, 2 | foster-mother, I will continue to speak of the obedient and 2161 4, 2 | all in general by My truth to obey the commandments of 2162 4, 2 | law, the chief of which is to love Me above everything, 2163 4, 2 | the others; he is faithful to Me and his neighbor, for 2164 4, 2 | obedient, becoming subject to the commandments of the 2165 4, 2 | commandments of the law, and to creatures for My sake, and 2166 4, 2 | baptism, promising therein to renounce the world and all 2167 4, 2 | pomps and delights, and to obey. So that each man has 2168 4, 2 | not remain seated, that is to say, placing your love in 2169 4, 2 | fell can rise? Do you think to be admitted to the marriage 2170 4, 2 | you think to be admitted to the marriage feast in foul 2171 4, 2 | obedience in your hand, to open the door. But bind 2172 4, 2 | the world, and fasten it to the love of pleasing Me, 2173 4, 2 | you should make a girdle to yourself to bind your loins 2174 4, 2 | make a girdle to yourself to bind your loins with it, 2175 4, 2 | girdle, or fastening the key to it with the cord of self-contempt, 2176 4, 2 | of self-contempt, that is to say that they are not perfectly 2177 4, 2 | pleasure, but still seek to please themselves; they 2178 4, 2 | for they do not desire to be despised, but rather 2179 4, 2 | men. Such as these are apt to lose their key; for if they 2180 4, 2 | find it again if they wish to while they live, but if 2181 4, 2 | it, and what will prove to them, that they have lost 2182 4, 2 | for patience was united to obedience, and their impatience 2183 4, 2 | injured, because he wishes to obey the precept of forgiveness, 2184 4, 2 | obedience has ordered him to desire Me alone, who can 2185 4, 2 | which would be too long to relate, he who has chosen 2186 4, 2 | salvation, you are conformed to My only-begotten Son, the 2187 4, 2 | cross, forcing yourself to endure, so as not to transgress 2188 4, 2 | yourself to endure, so as not to transgress the obedience 2189 4, 2 | from coveting, contrary to My will, his possessions, 2190 4, 2 | makes the earth, that is to say, the organs of the soul, 2191 4, 2 | the organs of the soul, to germinate with the heat 2192 4, 2 | that it reaches from earth to heaven and unlocks the celestial 2193 4, 2 | abasing yourself, submitting to all creatures. Yet your 2194 4, 3 | of obedience, go from bad to worse, from sin to sin, 2195 4, 3 | from bad to worse, from sin to sin, from misery to misery, 2196 4, 3 | sin to sin, from misery to misery, from darkness to 2197 4, 3 | to misery, from darkness to darkness, from death to 2198 4, 3 | to darkness, from death to death, until they finally 2199 4, 3 | it is very hard for them to do so, on account of their 2200 4, 3 | Therefore let no man trust to this, putting off his finding 2201 4, 3 | of the key of obedience to the moment of his death, 2202 4, 3 | such trust in this hope as to delay repentance. What is 2203 4, 3 | with patience, they will go to the eternal torments. Contrariwise, 2204 4, 3 | blood, it has been able to unlock the door. Oh! fools 2205 4, 3 | madmen, delay no longer to come out of the mud of impurity, 2206 4, 3 | for you seem like pigs to wallow in the mire of your 2207 4, 3 | the injuries which you do to Me and to your neighbor 2208 4, 3 | injuries which you do to Me and to your neighbor with those 2209 4, 3 | neighbor with those done to you, and you will see that 2210 4, 3 | will see that those done to you are but trifles. You 2211 4, 3 | you have been commanded to love Me above everything, 2212 4, 3 | not love him; but they are to be taken naturally and simply, 2213 4, 3 | simply, as they were said to you by My Truth, who Himself 2214 4, 4 | that they are not content to observe the precepts of 2215 4, 4 | obedience as you are all obliged to do if you will have life 2216 4, 4 | thought. Such as these wish to bind themselves more tightly 2217 4, 4 | self-hatred, and in order to restrain in everything their 2218 4, 4 | religion, they bind themselves to some creature, submitting 2219 4, 4 | creature, submitting their will to his, so as more expeditiously 2220 4, 4 | so as more expeditiously to unlock the door of Heaven. 2221 4, 4 | obedience. I have already spoken to you of obedience in general, 2222 4, 4 | general, and as I know it to be your will that I should 2223 4, 4 | will that I should speak to you of this particular and 2224 4, 4 | obedience, I will now relate to you somewhat of this second 2225 4, 4 | where general obedience is to be found and whence it proceeds, 2226 4, 4 | its loss. Now I will speak to you of this particular obedience, 2227 4, 5 | soul advances from general to particular obedience; and 2228 4, 5 | with love has submitted to the yoke of obedience, to 2229 4, 5 | to the yoke of obedience, to the Commandments, following 2230 4, 5 | of obedience will advance to the second kind by means 2231 4, 5 | light which brought her to the first, for by the light 2232 4, 5 | fragility, which cannot respond to Me with due perfection. 2233 4, 5 | Spirit, appointed as the ship to receive souls who wish to 2234 4, 5 | to receive souls who wish to hasten to perfection, and 2235 4, 5 | souls who wish to hasten to perfection, and to bring 2236 4, 5 | hasten to perfection, and to bring them to the port of 2237 4, 5 | perfection, and to bring them to the port of salvation. The 2238 4, 5 | truly obedient; that is to say, if she have perfectly 2239 4, 5 | for many have appeared to be perfect who have afterwards 2240 4, 5 | no need for the subject to think about his necessities 2241 4, 5 | I told you when I spoke to you of My providence, saying 2242 4, 5 | observe this order find this to be indeed true. Wherefore, 2243 4, 5 | entered and caused each to keep his private possessions 2244 4, 5 | private possessions and to fail in obedience, their 2245 4, 5 | and the more they possess to the greater destitution 2246 4, 5 | perfection, being the first to give his order for spouse, 2247 4, 5 | self-hatred, not desiring to please any creature but 2248 4, 5 | your will; desiring rather to be thought vile by the world, 2249 4, 5 | was fastened and nailed to the cross by love, so that 2250 4, 5 | nevertheless, as I explained to you in another place, one 2251 4, 5 | virtue belongs especially to one man, and another to 2252 4, 5 | to one man, and another to another, and yet they all 2253 4, 5 | Poverty belonged especially to My poor man Francis, who 2254 4, 5 | should apply themselves only to My honor and the salvation 2255 4, 5 | he left as an heirloom to his sons his curse and Mine, 2256 4, 5 | light of science in order to extirpate the errors which 2257 4, 5 | this office was committed to her by My goodness. At what 2258 4, 5 | Dominic does not wish his sons to apply themselves to anything, 2259 4, 5 | sons to apply themselves to anything, but remaining 2260 4, 5 | remaining at this table, there to seek with the light of science, 2261 4, 5 | providence, He wishes his sons to observe obedience and do 2262 4, 5 | body, he does not wish them to obscure their physical light 2263 4, 5 | humility is in proportion to his obedience, and his obedience 2264 4, 5 | obedience, and his obedience to his humility, and similarly, 2265 4, 5 | perfection. Each scented to be another St. Paul, their 2266 4, 5 | lived he applied himself to nothing but prayer, preaching, 2267 4, 5 | faith without any fear, to such an extent that he not 2268 4, 5 | having not paper on which to write, leaned over, confessing 2269 4, 5 | though he knew that he was to die, for I had revealed 2270 4, 5 | die, for I had revealed to him his death, but like 2271 4, 5 | fearlessly came forth on to the battlefield; and I could 2272 4, 5 | these sent by My Father to labor in His vineyard to 2273 4, 5 | to labor in His vineyard to extirpate the thorns of 2274 4, 6 | those who have the light to know that My clemency, the 2275 4, 6 | perfection, I will speak to you of the obedience and 2276 4, 6 | should he walk who wishes to enter this state of perfect 2277 4, 6 | world, which causes the soul to hold herself vile, and not 2278 4, 6 | hold herself vile, and not to desire honor but shame. 2279 4, 6 | honor but shame. Thus dead to himself, should he who is 2280 4, 6 | affection, hurrying generously to seize the key of the obedience 2281 4, 6 | as these have undertaken to open the little door, doing 2282 4, 6 | of Heaven, as I have said to you. They have taken a little 2283 4, 6 | they will never be able to pass through this little 2284 4, 6 | neck; whether they wish to or not, they cast from them 2285 4, 6 | voluntary poverty, refusing to possess anything, for they 2286 4, 6 | see by the light of faith to what ruin they would come 2287 4, 6 | poverty which they promised to keep. The disobedient walk 2288 4, 6 | suits their convenience to obey they do not incline 2289 4, 6 | these relations they go on to close intimacies, their 2290 4, 6 | many other things happen to them because they have money 2291 4, 6 | because they have money to spend, for if they had it 2292 4, 6 | who watches not nor prays, to preserve his mind pure. 2293 4, 6 | the loss which would come to him from temporal possessions 2294 4, 6 | sees that he is obliged to pass by this narrow door, 2295 4, 6 | before he would be able to pass it, having no key of 2296 4, 6 | key of obedience wherewith to open it, for as I said to 2297 4, 6 | to open it, for as I said to you, he is obliged to pass 2298 4, 6 | said to you, he is obliged to pass through it. Wherefore 2299 4, 6 | narrow path of obedience to his superior. ~ 2300 4, 6 | in the house of his soul to drive out the enemy of self-love, 2301 4, 6 | injustice cannot be conformed to justice, nor imprudence 2302 4, 6 | justice, nor imprudence to prudence, nor intemperance 2303 4, 6 | prudence, nor intemperance to temperance, nor the transgression 2304 4, 6 | commandments of the order to perfect observance of them, 2305 4, 6 | of those who live in sin to the good conversation of 2306 4, 6 | man's enemies, causing him to leave the good customs and 2307 4, 6 | obedience, he appointed hatred to drive them out, and love 2308 4, 6 | drive them out, and love to replace them with her friends. 2309 4, 6 | by self-love, gave life to all these enemies of true 2310 4, 6 | war, for there is no one to make war on him, for the 2311 4, 6 | for obedience causes him to fulfill them. Does the weight 2312 4, 6 | will, and does not care to examine or judge the will 2313 4, 6 | that My clemency causes him to command according to the 2314 4, 6 | him to command according to the needs of his subject' 2315 4, 6 | disgusted and angry at having to perform the humble duties 2316 4, 6 | humble duties of the order or to endure the mockeries, reproofs, 2317 4, 6 | are often cast at him, or to be held at little worth? 2318 4, 6 | thing which saddens him is to see Me, his Creator, offended. 2319 4, 6 | Will, it is not in order to conform himself to their 2320 4, 6 | order to conform himself to their sins, but to draw 2321 4, 6 | himself to their sins, but to draw them out of their misery, 2322 4, 6 | towards them he would like to give them the good which 2323 4, 6 | and praise would be given to My name by many observing 2324 4, 6 | Wherefore he endeavors to convert religious and seculars 2325 4, 6 | heaven, delighting there to converse with Me, his supreme 2326 4, 6 | embracing idleness, nor care to examine by reason the thoughts 2327 4, 6 | will help him, and open to him the eyes of My kindness, 2328 4, 6 | that he may be more eager to fly himself and come to 2329 4, 6 | to fly himself and come to Me. And if it should seem 2330 4, 6 | Me. And if it should seem to him that on account of his 2331 4, 6 | The obedient man wishes to be the first to enter choir 2332 4, 6 | man wishes to be the first to enter choir and the last 2333 4, 6 | enter choir and the last to leave it, and when he sees 2334 4, 6 | delights therein, and so as to have no reason to remain 2335 4, 6 | so as to have no reason to remain without, he has abandoned 2336 4, 6 | fear that thieves will come to rob him, or that rust or 2337 4, 6 | and if anything is given to him, he does not think of 2338 4, 6 | that he may better keep to the path of humility, he 2339 4, 6 | of humility, he submits to small and great, to poor 2340 4, 6 | submits to small and great, to poor and rich, and becomes 2341 4, 6 | obedient man does not wish to fulfill his obedience in 2342 4, 6 | obedience in his own way, or to choose his time or place, 2343 4, 6 | pride, and bowed his head to obedience through humility. 2344 4, 6 | calling him humbly, turns to him without anger, hatred, 2345 4, 6 | ones of whom My Truth spoke to the disciples, who were 2346 4, 6 | Allow the little ones to come to Me, for of such 2347 4, 6 | the little ones to come to Me, for of such is the kingdom 2348 4, 6 | is the kingdom of heaven to be; whoever will not humble 2349 4, 6 | humbled,' which also was said to you by My Truth. Justly, 2350 4, 7 | the gospel when He replied to Peter's demand, 'Master, 2351 4, 7 | As if My Truth had wished to say, 'You have done well, 2352 4, 7 | apostle obtained eternal life? To what did My Truth refer? 2353 4, 7 | what did My Truth refer? To temporal substance? ~ 2354 4, 7 | cause one who gives alms to multiply in temporal goods? 2355 4, 7 | number, and cannot be added to except by recommencing from 2356 4, 7 | hundredfold which is given to those who have given Me 2357 4, 7 | religious life. And in addition to this hundred you also possess 2358 4, 7 | charity is an open book to be read by all. Wherefore 2359 4, 8 | order with so much pain to himself and others, that 2360 4, 8 | superior, insupportable to himself. What a terrible 2361 4, 8 | thing it is, My daughter, to see one who has once taken 2362 4, 8 | living in disobedience, to which he has made himself 2363 4, 8 | everything is the contrary to what it would be for the 2364 4, 8 | he is obliged by force to incline the neck of his 2365 4, 8 | daughter, a religious comes to ruin, and falls into so 2366 4, 8 | another place I related to you at greater length. I 2367 4, 8 | obtained by disobedience to the commendation and exhortation 2368 4, 8 | obedience seems wearisome to him he wishes to disobey 2369 4, 8 | wearisome to him he wishes to disobey in order to avoid 2370 4, 8 | wishes to disobey in order to avoid weariness; whereby 2371 4, 8 | of all, for he is obliged to obey either by force or 2372 4, 8 | better and less wearisome to have obeyed by love than 2373 4, 8 | him but himself. Wishing to please himself he only gives 2374 4, 8 | actions which he will have to do, through the obedience 2375 4, 8 | not please him. He wishes to enjoy delights and make 2376 4, 8 | but the order wishes him to be a pilgrim, and continually 2377 4, 8 | and continually proves it to him; for when he is in a 2378 4, 8 | place, where he would like to remain for the pleasures 2379 4, 8 | obedience, and yet he is obliged to endure the discipline and 2380 4, 8 | deludes himself; for, wishing to fly pain, he on the contrary 2381 4, 8 | a man thinks like a fool to navigate this tempestuous 2382 4, 8 | three vows which he promised to observe at the time of his 2383 4, 8 | tempestuous sea, tossed to and fro by contrary winds, 2384 4, 8 | contrary winds, fastened only to the ship by his clothes, 2385 4, 8 | secular; and if he have to preach My doctrine, he does 2386 4, 8 | rather seeking them in order to be able to accomplish a 2387 4, 8 | them in order to be able to accomplish a sinful act, 2388 4, 8 | of his heart, he wishes to examine and judge unfaithfully 2389 4, 8 | obedient religious; you strive to deceive your superior when 2390 4, 8 | reproof which he may make to you, but in such a case 2391 4, 8 | against him, judging that to be done to your hurt which 2392 4, 8 | judging that to be done to your hurt which was done 2393 4, 8 | whilst you have anything to spend; when you have nothing 2394 4, 8 | done well, who have chosen to observe their vow of poverty, 2395 4, 8 | so that they have nothing to spend, and therefore are 2396 4, 8 | like this wretched man, to whose taste it is painful 2397 4, 8 | whose taste it is painful to eat in the refectory, wherefore 2398 4, 8 | it; he is always the last to enter the choir, and the 2399 4, 8 | the choir, and the first to leave it; with his lips 2400 4, 8 | penance. When he is obliged to be there, he is covered 2401 4, 8 | which he felt it no shame to commit. What is the cause 2402 4, 8 | but even the Divine office to which he is obliged. He 2403 4, 8 | observance of his order, to drown him in the sea, making 2404 4, 8 | every misery, causes him to die of hunger, taking away 2405 4, 8 | sweetness and good, causing him to dwell with every evil in 2406 4, 8 | earnest of cruel torments to endure, and if he do not 2407 4, 8 | disobedience will lead the soul to eternal damnation, together 2408 4, 9 | not reward merit according to the labor of the obedient, 2409 4, 9 | obedient, nor according to the length of time which 2410 4, 9 | it takes, but according to the love and promptitude 2411 4, 9 | I have appointed you all to labor in the vineyard of 2412 4, 9 | receive a price, according to the measure of his love, 2413 4, 9 | love, and not according to the work he does, or the 2414 4, 9 | which he works, that is to say, that he who comes early 2415 4, 9 | the lord of the vineyard to labor; for he gave as much 2416 4, 9 | labor; for he gave as much to those who went at dawn, 2417 4, 9 | those who went at dawn, as to those who went at prime 2418 4, 9 | are rewarded not according to time or work, but according 2419 4, 9 | time or work, but according to the measure of your love. 2420 4, 9 | placed in their childhood to work in the vineyard; some 2421 4, 9 | that not only do they wish to see reason in what is ordered 2422 4, 9 | My will, wherefore I say to you that he rather obeys 2423 4, 9 | it by the light of faith to be Mine. This is well shown 2424 4, 9 | his superior, commencing to write the letter o, though 2425 4, 9 | though he had not space to finish it; wherefore to 2426 4, 9 | to finish it; wherefore to show how pleasing his prompt 2427 4, 9 | his prompt obedience was to Me, My clemency gave him 2428 4, 9 | glorious virtue is so pleasing to Me, that to no other have 2429 4, 9 | so pleasing to Me, that to no other have I given so 2430 4, 9 | In order to show how pleasing it is 2431 4, 9 | show how pleasing it is to Me, the earth obeys this 2432 4, 9 | being ordered by obedience to plant it in the earth and 2433 4, 9 | every day, did not proceed to ask how could it possibly 2434 4, 9 | a dragon and brought it to his abbot, but the abbot, 2435 4, 9 | the wind of vainglory, and to prove his patience, sent 2436 4, 9 | beast with yourself.' And as to fire, you have read in the 2437 4, 9 | had been sent by obedience to save a drowning disciple; 2438 4, 9 | the light of faith of how to fulfill the command of his 2439 4, 9 | you ought, if possible, to force yourself to arise, 2440 4, 9 | possible, to force yourself to arise, to fulfill the obedience 2441 4, 9 | force yourself to arise, to fulfill the obedience imposed 2442 4, 9 | obedience of My servants to be, and how pleasing it 2443 4, 9 | and how pleasing it is to Me. Everything that the 2444 4, 9 | does is a source of merit to him. If he eats, obedience 2445 4, 9 | himself with self-hatred to the arms of his order and 2446 4, 9 | the ship, allowing himself to be guided by his superior, 2447 4, 9 | by his superior, that is to say, eternal life, the vision 2448 4, 9 | and with all, according to the measure of each. I do 2449 4, 9 | measure in which it is given to him. Thus, then, the obedient 2450 4, 10 | satisfied from the beginning to the end your desire concerning 2451 4, 10 | or rather I caused you to make them in order to increase 2452 4, 10 | you to make them in order to increase the fire of My 2453 4, 10 | truth which you desired to know; explaining to you 2454 4, 10 | desired to know; explaining to you how you might come to 2455 4, 10 | to you how you might come to the knowledge of it through 2456 4, 10 | was that I should do mercy to the world. In the third 2457 4, 10 | desire in your person. As to this I explained that no 2458 4, 10 | of the heart. How this is to be done I have explained 2459 4, 10 | be done I have explained to you. I have also told you 2460 4, 10 | also told you that I wish to do mercy to the world, proving 2461 4, 10 | that I wish to do mercy to the world, proving to you 2462 4, 10 | mercy to the world, proving to you that mercy is My special 2463 4, 10 | which I had for man, I sent to the earth the Word, My only-begotten 2464 4, 10 | quite clearly, I represented to you under the figure of 2465 4, 10 | Bridge, reaching from earth to heaven, through the union 2466 4, 10 | I also showed you, to give you further light concerning 2467 4, 10 | steps I also represented to you, as you know, under 2468 4, 10 | Devil's road, when I spoke to you of their wretchedness. 2469 4, 10 | Wherefore I invite you to endure, Myself lamenting 2470 4, 10 | in which I wish seculars to hold them, showing you the 2471 4, 10 | latter, and how displeasing to me is such diminution of 2472 4, 10 | angels. And while speaking to you on this subject, I also 2473 4, 10 | And further wishing you to know of the states of tears 2474 4, 10 | whence they proceed, I spoke to you on the subject and told 2475 4, 10 | pointed out their causes to you in order. ~ 2476 4, 10 | explained My providence to you, in general and in particular, 2477 4, 10 | and permitting everything to happen to you, both tribulations 2478 4, 10 | permitting everything to happen to you, both tribulations and 2479 4, 10 | that I created you in order to possess eternal life, and 2480 4, 10 | your desire and My promise to speak of the perfection 2481 4, 10 | destroyed. I have shown it to you as a universal key, 2482 4, 10 | it is. I have also spoken to you of particular obedience, 2483 4, 10 | condition of each distinctly to you, and of the peace given 2484 4, 10 | made a Bridge, the road to Heaven being broken. And 2485 4, 10 | you and My other servants to grief, for by your grief 2486 4, 10 | continual prayer I will do mercy to the world. Die to the world 2487 4, 10 | mercy to the world. Die to the world and hasten along 2488 4, 10 | way of truth, so as not to be taken prisoner if you 2489 4, 10 | for now I have manifested to you My Truth. Beware that 2490 4, 11 | of faith brings this work to an end. ~ 2491 4, 11 | majesty and gave thanks to Him, saying, "Thanks, thanks 2492 4, 11 | saying, "Thanks, thanks to You, oh eternal Father, 2493 4, 11 | same charity constrain You to illuminate the eye of my 2494 4, 11 | which You have manifested to me. Grant that my memory 2495 4, 11 | in me that I give my body to blood, and that by that 2496 4, 11 | which Godhead gave value to the Blood of Your Son, You, 2497 4, 11 | eternal Trinity, desiring to see You with light in Your 2498 4, 11 | water, so my soul desires to leave the prison of this 2499 4, 11 | Your truth, constrains me to long to abandon the heaviness 2500 4, 11 | truth, constrains me to long to abandon the heaviness of