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1501 3, 28 | hope that they had placed in My Providence, they were 1502 3, 28 | sign that a creature hopes in Me and not in himself, is 1503 3, 28 | creature hopes in Me and not in himself, is that he does 1504 3, 28 | servile fear. They who hope in themselves are the ones 1505 3, 28 | these, and a perverted hope in their own small knowledge, 1506 3, 28 | much miserable solicitude in acquiring and preserving 1507 3, 28 | measure that My creatures hope in Me, will My providence be 1508 3, 28 | labor may be reputed to be in vain, who watches the city 1509 3, 28 | have bestowed upon you, in virtue using the free-will 1510 3, 28 | their love hoped so greatly in Me that they feared nothing. 1511 3, 28 | could be against him; and in the same way the others 1512 3, 28 | accompanied, because being in the enjoyment of love, they 1513 3, 28 | enjoyment of love, they were in Me, and from Me they acquired 1514 3, 28 | himself to be alone, and hopes in himself, deprived of the 1515 3, 28 | and hope they had placed in Me. Your tongue would not 1516 3, 28 | fruit which they receive in everlasting life, and that 1517 3, 28 | will receive who follow in their footsteps. They are 1518 3, 28 | and as such do they stand in My presence, because I have 1519 3, 28 | with the odor of virtues in the mystic body of the holy 1520 3, 28 | of the holy Church. And in the life eternal I have 1521 3, 28 | eternal I have placed them in the greatest dignity, and 1522 3, 28 | receive blessing and glory in My sight, because they gave 1523 3, 28 | the dignity which I placed in them, and because this Treasure 1524 3, 28 | Treasure which I placed in their hands they did not 1525 3, 28 | souls, having placed them in so much excellency they 1526 3, 28 | to give them more courage in exposing their infirmity, 1527 3, 28 | preserving the good and rejoicing in their virtues, not being 1528 3, 28 | which they had conceived in Me. They ran to feed on 1529 3, 28 | faith, they put themselves in the midst of the thorns 1530 3, 28 | so made, being received in humility." ~ 1531 3, 29 | told you of the dignity in which I have placed them, 1532 3, 29 | wish seculars to hold them in due reverence, not for their 1533 3, 29 | reverence should never diminish in the case of priests whose 1534 3, 29 | grows weak, any more than in the case of those virtuous 1535 3, 29 | perfect priests are themselves in a condition of light, that 1536 3, 29 | spring up and bear fruit in the souls of their subjects. 1537 3, 29 | have appointed them to be in very truth your guardian 1538 3, 29 | you My doctrine reflected in the mirror of their life, 1539 3, 29 | obliged to possess, and in what great reverence you 1540 3, 29 | and shine each as a sun in the mystical body of the 1541 3, 29 | ministry which I have placed in their hands. You should 1542 3, 29 | those who live miserably in sin, but not on that account 1543 3, 29 | themselves filthy and clothed in garments ragged with vice 1544 3, 29 | receiving Them worthily (in spite of the great defects 1545 3, 29 | great defects there may be in them) through love of Me, 1546 3, 29 | that I may re-clothe them in My goodness, with the garment 1547 3, 29 | the Sun being themselves in darkness, not that they 1548 3, 29 | of virtue, foully living in dishonor; on the contrary 1549 3, 29 | will that they should be in this state, you should pray 1550 3, 30 | I wish to speak to you in more detail on this point ( 1551 3, 30 | because if their will were in accordance with mine they 1552 3, 30 | and his conscience remains in peace; for during his life 1553 3, 30 | guards by its barking, for in this way the dog of conscience 1554 3, 30 | does not gnaw but remains in peace. ~ 1555 3, 30 | for the soul recollected in herself, is caused by it 1556 3, 30 | neither can nor will hope in his own virtues, but only 1557 3, 30 | his own virtues, but only in the Blood in which he has 1558 3, 30 | virtues, but only in the Blood in which he has found mercy; 1559 3, 30 | found mercy; and as he lived in the memory of that Blood, 1560 3, 30 | memory of that Blood, so in death he is inebriated and 1561 3, 30 | is inebriated and drowned in the same. How is it that 1562 3, 30 | acquire anything, and appear in horrible shapes in order 1563 3, 30 | appear in horrible shapes in order to frighten him with 1564 3, 30 | poison of sin not being in his soul, their aspect causes 1565 3, 30 | another who had lived wickedly in the world. Wherefore the 1566 3, 30 | eternal life, as I said to you in another place, for with 1567 3, 30 | before she actually does so, in the way which I have narrated 1568 3, 30 | which I have narrated to you in another place. Passing suddenly, 1569 3, 30 | Passing suddenly, drowned in the Blood, by the narrow 1570 3, 30 | arrived at this pass, for in Truth she tastes the happiness 1571 3, 30 | received by all those who pass in this sweet manner, but to 1572 3, 30 | have lived like angels, for in this life have they lived 1573 3, 30 | virtue which all can have in general, but of the supernatural 1574 3, 30 | always discourse to you in general. ~ 1575 3, 30 | the office of eating souls in My honor. For just as everyone 1576 3, 30 | the office of remaining in charity with his neighbor, 1577 3, 30 | faith they have incarnated in their very marrow, and with 1578 3, 30 | see their place of repose in Me. The hope with which 1579 3, 30 | they have lived, confiding in My providence and losing 1580 3, 30 | providence and losing all trust in themselves, in that they 1581 3, 30 | all trust in themselves, in that they did not hope in 1582 3, 30 | in that they did not hope in their own knowledge, and 1583 3, 30 | knowledge, and having lost hope in themselves, placed no inordinate 1584 3, 30 | placed no inordinate love in any fellow-creature or in 1585 3, 30 | in any fellow-creature or in any created thing; having 1586 3, 30 | created thing; having lived in voluntary poverty, causes 1587 3, 30 | earthly angel! happy you are in that you have not been ungrateful 1588 3, 30 | Door, bathed and drowned in His blood, with your troop 1589 3, 30 | have left many behind you in a state of grace. ~ 1590 3, 30 | trouble or any fear, because in them is not the poison of 1591 3, 30 | There is no servile fear in them, but holy fear. Wherefore 1592 3, 30 | gloriously pass, bathed in the blood, with hunger for 1593 3, 30 | goodness each one is arranged in his place, and to each one 1594 3, 31 | sinners, and of their pains in the hour of death. ~ 1595 3, 31 | other poor wretches who are in great misery as I have related 1596 3, 31 | is their death! Because in the moment of death, as 1597 3, 31 | pain that can be suffered in this world than see it; 1598 3, 31 | In his life he lived unfaithfully 1599 3, 31 | torments him with infidelity in order to bring him to despair. 1600 3, 31 | its marrow. Wherefore now in the great battle they know 1601 3, 31 | They are not nourished in hope, because they have 1602 3, 31 | because they have not hoped in Me, neither in the Blood 1603 3, 31 | not hoped in Me, neither in the Blood of which I made 1604 3, 31 | made them ministers, but in themselves alone, and in 1605 3, 31 | in themselves alone, and in the dignities and delights 1606 3, 31 | injustice which he practiced in his life accuses him to 1607 3, 31 | and confusion that unless in their life they have taken 1608 3, 31 | taken the habit of hoping in My mercy, that is, have 1609 3, 31 | arm of My mercy has a hope in mercy, but rather has presumption), 1610 3, 31 | would arrive with the Devil in eternal damnation. ~ 1611 3, 31 | should dilate themselves in charity, and in the consideration 1612 3, 31 | themselves in charity, and in the consideration of My 1613 3, 31 | My goodness. But they act in a contrary way, because 1614 3, 31 | because they offend Me in the hope which they have 1615 3, 31 | the hope which they have in My mercy. And nevertheless, 1616 3, 31 | nevertheless, I keep them in this hope so that at the 1617 3, 31 | them, and if they grieve in the right way their grief 1618 3, 31 | but intolerable suffering in it. One who despairs despises 1619 3, 31 | offense done to Me, and hoped in My mercy, he would have 1620 3, 31 | that I wish them to hope in My mercy at the point of 1621 3, 31 | making them hope greatly in My mercy, for when, having 1622 3, 31 | because they have used it in the darkness of self-love, 1623 3, 31 | they have not known it in truth, but in so far as 1624 3, 31 | not known it in truth, but in so far as they have turned 1625 3, 31 | their conscience gives them in the likeness of the Devil, 1626 3, 31 | the Devil, reproving them in that they should have used 1627 3, 31 | the breadth of My mercy in which they hoped, in charity 1628 3, 31 | mercy in which they hoped, in charity and love of virtue, 1629 3, 31 | love should have been spent in holiness, whereas with all 1630 3, 31 | your talent which I placed in your hands in order that 1631 3, 31 | which I placed in your hands in order that you might gain 1632 3, 31 | gain more with it, but you in your presumption would not 1633 3, 31 | Oh, wretch! the dignity in which I placed you, you 1634 3, 31 | that you have held and used in such guilty darkness the 1635 3, 31 | Whereas you should have lived in voluntary poverty. ~ 1636 3, 31 | towards nourishing them in virtue, giving them the 1637 3, 31 | account of pleasant words, nor in order to please creatures, 1638 3, 31 | these wretches, to these in particular and to all others 1639 3, 31 | particular and to all others in general, for at death when 1640 3, 31 | I wish you to know that in this knowledge which dying 1641 3, 31 | comes on him who has lain in the darkness of mortal sin. 1642 3, 31 | woman increases thereby in joy and in knowledge of 1643 3, 31 | increases thereby in joy and in knowledge of My love, for 1644 3, 31 | of having followed virtue in the doctrine of My truth 1645 3, 31 | himself, wherefore he exalts in Me, with this truly illuminated 1646 3, 31 | the sweet end of his being in the way which I have related 1647 3, 31 | which I have related to you in another place. So that the 1648 3, 31 | just man, who has lived in ardent charity, exults in 1649 3, 31 | in ardent charity, exults in joy, while the wicked man 1650 3, 31 | darkened and confounded in sorrow. ~ 1651 3, 31 | their lives lasciviously and in many sins, receive both 1652 3, 31 | the blindness of man, and in particular of these ministers, 1653 3, 31 | just as good men are placed in a higher degree of excellence. 1654 3, 31 | Christian, who is placed in Hell in greater torment 1655 3, 31 | Christian, who is placed in Hell in greater torment than a pagan, 1656 3, 31 | had the light of science, in order to discern the truth 1657 3, 32 | sin and self-love found in the soul, not afflicting 1658 3, 32 | constrains You to create us in Your image and similitude, 1659 3, 32 | with so much burning love in particular to me beyond 1660 3, 32 | to it the entire God- Man in the mystic body of the holy 1661 3, 32 | ask for. Wherefore I know in truth that the heart of 1662 3, 32 | for she cannot desire it in itself, nor in the way in 1663 3, 32 | desire it in itself, nor in the way in which You can 1664 3, 32 | in itself, nor in the way in which You can and will satisfy 1665 3, 32 | the whole human race, and in particular for Your anointed 1666 3, 32 | ought to be earthly angels in this life. You have shown 1667 3, 32 | with the Pearl of Justice in the holy Church. And by 1668 3, 32 | many sins -- I am plunged in intolerable grief. ~ 1669 3, 32 | over those who are dead in that they live miserably. 1670 3, 32 | eyes fail through tears, in desiring Your honor and 1671 3, 32 | me! You cause them to cry in order to hear their voices! 1672 3, 32 | door of Your truth, because in the truth of Your only-begotten 1673 3, 32 | to Your creatures. Place in the balance the price of 1674 3, 32 | and praise will be Yours in saving so many creatures, 1675 3, 32 | so many creatures, than in leaving them obstinate in 1676 3, 32 | in leaving them obstinate in their hardness of heart. 1677 3, 32 | therefore, that we are in existence, do mercy to us, 1678 3, 32 | Re-create them to Grace in Your mercy and the Blood 1679 4, 1 | reply that you will find it in its completeness in the 1680 4, 1 | find it in its completeness in the sweet and amorous Word, 1681 4, 1 | only-begotten Son. So prompt in Him was this virtue, that, 1682 4, 1 | Him was this virtue, that, in order to fulfill it, He 1683 4, 1 | that obedience may be kept in two ways, of which one is 1684 4, 1 | obedience and placed them in the hands of My sweet and 1685 4, 1 | Porter. Wherefore He said in the Holy Gospel that 'no 1686 4, 1 | outside His obedience is in a state of damnation, as 1687 4, 1 | I have already told you in another place. Now I wish 1688 4, 1 | this most excellent virtue in that humble and immaculate 1689 4, 1 | possessed them all, but in a different way from that 1690 4, 1 | different way from that in which you do. Among the 1691 4, 1 | sign, whether a soul be in a state of grace and truly 1692 4, 1 | therefore a soul is obedient in proportion to her humility, 1693 4, 1 | her humility, and humble in proportion to her obedience. 1694 4, 1 | Where does she find this? In sweet Christ Jesus, My only-begotten 1695 4, 1 | He caused pain to Himself in His bodily life, in order 1696 4, 1 | Himself in His bodily life, in order to please Me. And 1697 4, 1 | His cry was never heard in murmuring, but He patiently 1698 4, 1 | Eternal Father. Wherefore in Him you will find obedience 1699 4, 1 | travels by that way, travels in the light, and being enlightened 1700 4, 1 | All this you should read in that glorious book, where 1701 4, 2 | together, and of obedience in general, which is the obedience 1702 4, 2 | obedience of the precepts; and in particular, which is that 1703 4, 2 | your fidelity. You are all in general by My truth to obey 1704 4, 2 | enough that it should be only in word, and not practiced 1705 4, 2 | which key My Son placed in the hands of His vicar. 1706 4, 2 | vicar. This vicar placed it in the hands of everyone who 1707 4, 2 | obey. So that each man has in his own person that very 1708 4, 2 | if a man does not unlock in the light of faith, and 1709 4, 2 | never will enter there, in spite of its having been 1710 4, 2 | Wherefore you must take the key in your hand and walk by the 1711 4, 2 | to say, placing your love in finite things, as do foolish 1712 4, 2 | taken this key of obedience in His hands and purified it 1713 4, 2 | His hands and purified it in the fire of divine love, 1714 4, 2 | admitted to the marriage feast in foul and disordered garments? 1715 4, 2 | defiled garment and, clothed in the shining nuptial robe, 1716 4, 2 | hasten, the key of obedience in your hand, to open the door. 1717 4, 2 | the light of faith that in no other way can they escape 1718 4, 2 | damnation; but they hold it in their hand without wearing 1719 4, 2 | but rather take delight in the praise of men. Such 1720 4, 2 | obedience does not dwell in their soul. Oh! how sweet 1721 4, 2 | the interior of the soul in whom she dwells. Such a 1722 4, 2 | of worldly riches. And so in all things which would be 1723 4, 2 | food of souls, dwelling in the love of your neighbor, 1724 4, 2 | happiness of patience, and even in its fortitude you are great 1725 4, 3 | should not put such trust in this hope as to delay repentance. 1726 4, 3 | impatient, as has been said, and in their impatience endure 1727 4, 3 | the law, rejoice and exult in My eternal vision with the 1728 4, 3 | obedience. Observing this law in this life they taste peace 1729 4, 3 | receive and clothe themselves in the most perfect peace, 1730 4, 3 | truly. What has placed them in so blessed a state? The 1731 4, 3 | seem like pigs to wallow in the mire of your own lust. 1732 4, 3 | extinguish the hatred which is in your heart against your 1733 4, 3 | will see that remaining in hatred you injure Me by 1734 4, 3 | of faith, walk no longer in such darkness or cold, but 1735 4, 3 | cold, but observe obedience in the fire of love, so that 1736 4, 4 | some, My dearest daughter, in whom the sweet and amorous 1737 4, 4 | observers of the counsels both in deed and in thought. Such 1738 4, 4 | counsels both in deed and in thought. Such as these wish 1739 4, 4 | through self-hatred, and in order to restrain in everything 1740 4, 4 | and in order to restrain in everything their own will. 1741 4, 4 | under the yoke of obedience in holy religion, or, without 1742 4, 4 | spoken to you of obedience in general, and as I know it 1743 4, 5 | herself, as has been said, in this general kind of obedience 1744 4, 5 | faith she would have learnt, in the blood of the humble 1745 4, 5 | wanders, seeking by that light in what place and in what way 1746 4, 5 | light in what place and in what way she can pay her 1747 4, 5 | her own will. Enlightened in her search by faith, she 1748 4, 5 | Spirit, who never fails in Himself through the defects 1749 4, 5 | it by exercising herself in the virtue of obedience; 1750 4, 5 | are some who enter already in perfection, others in the 1751 4, 5 | already in perfection, others in the childhood of virtue, 1752 4, 5 | they exercise themselves in virtue, and persevere till 1753 4, 5 | turned back, or remained in the order with much imperfection, 1754 4, 5 | ordained by Me, who call men in different ways, does not 1755 4, 5 | true. Wherefore, see that in the days when the religious 1756 4, 5 | possessions and to fail in obedience, their temporal 1757 4, 5 | come. It is just that even in the smallest matters they 1758 4, 5 | pearls of virtue, steering it in the way of lofty perfection, 1759 4, 5 | his will, clothing himself in insults, sufferings, and 1760 4, 5 | singular grace there appeared in his body the very wounds 1761 4, 5 | wounds of your Truth, showing in the vessel of his body that 1762 4, 5 | his body that which was in the love of his soul, so 1763 4, 5 | they are all founded on it, in no other is this the principal 1764 4, 5 | nevertheless, as I explained to you in another place, one virtue 1765 4, 5 | and yet they all remain in charity, so with the principal 1766 4, 5 | foundation of his order in love for this poverty, and 1767 4, 5 | sins they are multiplied in numbers and deficient in 1768 4, 5 | in numbers and deficient in virtue, not through defect 1769 4, 5 | possessions, either privately or in community, as a sign that 1770 4, 5 | took the light of science in order to extirpate the errors 1771 4, 5 | errors which had arisen in his time, thus taking on 1772 4, 5 | he appeared as an apostle in the world, and sowed the 1773 4, 5 | by means of Mary, placed in the mystical body of the 1774 4, 5 | salvation of souls. And in order that they might do 1775 4, 5 | is true that some failed in faith, fearing that they 1776 4, 5 | he never. Being clothed in faith, and hoping with firm 1777 4, 5 | hoping with firm confidence in My providence, He wishes 1778 4, 5 | this light can be darkened in itself, but only in their 1779 4, 5 | darkened in itself, but only in their souls, for there, 1780 4, 5 | that a man's humility is in proportion to his obedience, 1781 4, 5 | vow of continence, either in thought or deed; so that 1782 4, 5 | observe the order are perfect in kind, yet one possesses 1783 4, 5 | perfect or imperfect live well in this ship. He allied himself 1784 4, 5 | that the order itself is in this condition, for it still 1785 4, 5 | possesses every delight, but in the beginning its subjects 1786 4, 5 | he not only confessed it in his life but even at the 1787 4, 5 | death-blow, he dipped his finger in his blood, and this glorious 1788 4, 5 | ground. His heart burnt in the furnace of My charity, 1789 4, 5 | martyrdom, were martyrs in will like Dominic; great 1790 4, 5 | sent by My Father to labor in His vineyard to extirpate 1791 4, 5 | vice, planting the virtues in their stead. Of a truth 1792 4, 6 | these ships, which are built in the light of the most holy 1793 4, 6 | disobedience of those who travel in such a ship, speaking of 1794 4, 6 | that is, one order -- in particular, showing you 1795 4, 6 | for obedience soon dies in a soul deprived of this 1796 4, 6 | told you that I call souls in diverse ways), he should 1797 4, 6 | the little door which is in the panel of the door of 1798 4, 6 | a low and narrow opening in the great door. This small 1799 4, 6 | great door, as you may see in any real door. They should 1800 4, 6 | keep. The disobedient walk in pride, holding their heads 1801 4, 6 | self-contempt, they live in their own pleasure richly 1802 4, 6 | this narrow door, and that in such a state he would die 1803 4, 6 | places self-hatred as servant in the house of his soul to 1804 4, 6 | drives out the enemy and puts in his place the nurse and 1805 4, 6 | love of obedience places in the house of his soul the 1806 4, 6 | been exiled. She dwells in the garden of true continence, 1807 4, 6 | intellectual light shining in, the eye of holy faith fixed 1808 4, 6 | which the soul should have in Me; injustice cannot be 1809 4, 6 | conversation of those who live in sin to the good conversation 1810 4, 6 | the others are preserved in life, he remains free and 1811 4, 6 | life, he remains free and in peace without any war, for 1812 4, 6 | herself that which kept her in bitterness and in sadness. 1813 4, 6 | kept her in bitterness and in sadness. What makes war 1814 4, 6 | of faith he sees My will in him, believing truly that 1815 4, 6 | exulting with delight and joy in the company of his spouse, 1816 4, 6 | from My Will, it is not in order to conform himself 1817 4, 6 | brotherly love which he has in his heart towards them he 1818 4, 6 | weariness which he feels in his mind, and resisting 1819 4, 6 | who permit this suffering in order that he may be more 1820 4, 6 | for he despises himself in his own mind with hatred 1821 4, 6 | passes over this stormy sea in the ship of his order, dwelling 1822 4, 6 | his order, dwelling thus in his cell as has been said, 1823 4, 6 | than himself he regards him in his eagerness with a holy 1824 4, 6 | stealing from him the virtue in which he excels, not wishing, 1825 4, 6 | And in order that he may better 1826 4, 6 | to fulfill his obedience in his own way, or to choose 1827 4, 6 | He passes with this key in his hand through the narrow 1828 4, 6 | the labors of the order in a faith which despises nothing, 1829 4, 6 | inflicted on him by his superior in the order, but calling him 1830 4, 6 | for all their labors, and in this life also do they taste 1831 4, 7 | In them is fulfilled the saying 1832 4, 7 | Word, My only-begotten Son, in the gospel when He replied 1833 4, 7 | have done well, Peter, for in no other way could you follow 1834 4, 7 | could you follow Me. And I, in this life, will give you 1835 4, 7 | who gives alms to multiply in temporal goods? In return 1836 4, 7 | multiply in temporal goods? In return for what do I this? 1837 4, 7 | return for what do I this? In return for the gift of his 1838 4, 7 | increasing many hundredfold in merit; but you always necessarily 1839 4, 7 | of their own will, both in general obedience, and in 1840 4, 7 | in general obedience, and in the particular obedience 1841 4, 7 | the religious life. And in addition to this hundred 1842 4, 7 | into Me, the eternal life, in whom the obedient taste 1843 4, 7 | life, for they experience in its essence that which they 1844 4, 7 | for there is no sadness in charity, but the joy of 1845 4, 7 | does not appear one thing in face and tongue while her 1846 4, 8 | wicked disobedient man dwells in the ship of a religious 1847 4, 8 | himself and others, that in this life he tastes the 1848 4, 8 | hell, he remains always in sadness and confusion of 1849 4, 8 | religious order, living in disobedience, to which he 1850 4, 8 | For how can this wretch be in any other state than suffering, 1851 4, 8 | erect, all his desires are in discord with the will of 1852 4, 8 | of an incarnate devil, as in another place I related 1853 4, 8 | world. He left the world in body, but remained there 1854 4, 8 | body, but remained there in his affections, and because 1855 4, 8 | him he wishes to disobey in order to avoid weariness; 1856 4, 8 | it to him; for when he is in a nice pleasant resting 1857 4, 8 | order, and thus remains in continual torment. See, 1858 4, 8 | of his own arms, trusting in his own miserable knowledge, 1859 4, 8 | and will not navigate it in the arms of his order, and 1860 4, 8 | superior. Such a one is indeed in the ship of the order in 1861 4, 8 | in the ship of the order in body, and not in mind; he 1862 4, 8 | the order in body, and not in mind; he has quitted it 1863 4, 8 | mind; he has quitted it in desire, not observing the 1864 4, 8 | his profession; he swims in the tempestuous sea, tossed 1865 4, 8 | masquerader, a man only in appearance. His life is 1866 4, 8 | than the good religious in the ship, or that he is 1867 4, 8 | the ship, or that he is in danger of eternal death; 1868 4, 8 | his affection is planted in pride, which he has drawn 1869 4, 8 | they would be out of place in the mouth of a ribald secular; 1870 4, 8 | My doctrine, he does so in polished terms, not simply, 1871 4, 8 | but rather seeking them in order to be able to accomplish 1872 4, 8 | stench of disobedience, for, in the secret of his heart, 1873 4, 8 | impurity, for he takes delight in many foul conversations, 1874 4, 8 | he may make to you, but in such a case you immediately 1875 4, 8 | your soul and body living in pain. Why has your brother 1876 4, 8 | wherefore you can not remain in your material cell. You 1877 4, 8 | cell. You will not appear in the refectory against your 1878 4, 8 | nourishes both body and soul in peace and quiet. The obedient 1879 4, 8 | taste it is painful to eat in the refectory, wherefore 1880 4, 8 | Disobedience. He does not watch in prayer, and not only does 1881 4, 8 | his order, to drown him in the sea, making him swim 1882 4, 8 | the sea, making him swim in the strength of his own 1883 4, 8 | to dwell with every evil in life it gives him the earnest 1884 4, 8 | they rebelled against Me. In the same way have you, oh! 1885 4, 9 | virtue; and of discretion in obedience, and of the works 1886 4, 9 | appointed you all to labor in the vineyard of obedience 1887 4, 9 | the vineyard of obedience in different ways, and every 1888 4, 9 | late, as My Truth told you in the holy gospel by the example 1889 4, 9 | first: My Truth showing you in this way that you are rewarded 1890 4, 9 | your love. Many are placed in their childhood to work 1891 4, 9 | their childhood to work in the vineyard; some enter 1892 4, 9 | vineyard; some enter later in life, and others in old 1893 4, 9 | later in life, and others in old age; sometimes these 1894 4, 9 | rejoin those who entered in their childhood, because 1895 4, 9 | the vessel of her heart in Me, the Sea Pacific. There 1896 4, 9 | as it were, so incarnate in them, that not only do they 1897 4, 9 | they wish to see reason in what is ordered them by 1898 4, 9 | of his superior is fixed in My will, and that therefore 1899 4, 9 | first spiritually obeyed in affection his superior's 1900 4, 9 | Mine. This is well shown in the lives of the fathers, 1901 4, 9 | religious, who at once obeyed in his affection the command 1902 4, 9 | other half of the letter in gold. This glorious virtue 1903 4, 9 | In order to show how pleasing 1904 4, 9 | by obedience to plant it in the earth and water it every 1905 4, 9 | fulfilled his obedience in such virtue of faith that 1906 4, 9 | true physician of the soul, in order that he might not 1907 4, 9 | as to fire, you have read in the holy scripture that 1908 4, 9 | scripture that many were placed in the fire, rather than transgress 1909 4, 9 | children, who remained happily in the furnace -- and of many 1910 4, 9 | and so saved the disciple. In everything, if you open 1911 4, 9 | obedience. If you were lifted up in such contemplation and union 1912 4, 9 | speaking generally, and not in a particular case, which 1913 4, 9 | or obedience. I say this in order that you may see how 1914 4, 9 | serves. How is he guided in the choir, in the refectory, 1915 4, 9 | he guided in the choir, in the refectory, or his cell? 1916 4, 9 | Reposing with obedience in the ship, allowing himself 1917 4, 9 | eating and knowing My Truth in the Incarnate Word. What 1918 4, 9 | does she drink? The Blood, in which the Word has shown 1919 4, 9 | with the light of faith in holy obedience. ~ 1920 4, 9 | value Myself truly. And in My own estimate and comprehension 1921 4, 9 | joy, the good which I have in Myself, I share with you, 1922 4, 9 | comprehends and knows My goodness in the measure in which it 1923 4, 9 | goodness in the measure in which it is given to him. 1924 4, 9 | with the light of faith in the truth burning in the 1925 4, 9 | faith in the truth burning in the furnace of charity, 1926 4, 9 | inebriated with the Blood, in company with his sister 1927 4, 10 | caused you to make them in order to increase the fire 1928 4, 10 | increase the fire of My love in your soul: one for yourself, 1929 4, 10 | should do mercy to the world. In the third you prayed for 1930 4, 10 | iniquities at own desire in your person. As to this 1931 4, 10 | that no penalty inflicted in finite time can satisfy 1932 4, 10 | the most perfect state, in which the soul arrives at 1933 4, 10 | I have shown you clearly in each state the means of 1934 4, 10 | clemency delivers -- one in this life, the second at 1935 4, 10 | at death on those who die in mortal sin without hope, 1936 4, 10 | given her, and the reverence in which I wish seculars to 1937 4, 10 | out their causes to you in order. ~ 1938 4, 10 | explained My providence to you, in general and in particular, 1939 4, 10 | providence to you, in general and in particular, showing you 1940 4, 10 | your life for your good, in order that you may be sanctified 1941 4, 10 | that you may be sanctified in Me, and My Truth be fulfilled 1942 4, 10 | and My Truth be fulfilled in you, which truth is that 1943 4, 10 | truth is that I created you in order to possess eternal 1944 4, 10 | I have also in My last words fulfilled 1945 4, 10 | imperfect, and of those in religion, and of those in 1946 4, 10 | in religion, and of those in the world, explaining the 1947 4, 10 | of the whole matter, that in the obedience of the only- 1948 4, 10 | cell of self-knowledge, but in this cell preserve and spend 1949 4, 10 | sweet Christ Jesus, clothed in light which scatters darkness, 1950 4, 10 | beloved and sweetest daughter, in the truth." ~ 1951 4, 11 | the many others which are in me. Having known the truth 1952 4, 11 | benefits, that my will may burn in the fire of Your charity, 1953 4, 11 | and may that fire so work in me that I give my body to 1954 4, 11 | rational creature, both in general and in particular, 1955 4, 11 | creature, both in general and in particular, in the mystical 1956 4, 11 | general and in particular, in the mystical body of the 1957 4, 11 | soul cannot be satiated in Your abyss, for she continually 1958 4, 11 | desiring to see You with light in Your light. As the hart 1959 4, 11 | this dark body and see You in truth. How long, oh! Eternal 1960 4, 11 | have given me of Yourself in Your truth, constrains me 1961 4, 11 | the light of the intellect in Your light, the abyss of 1962 4, 11 | for, looking at myself in You, I saw myself to be 1963 4, 11 | only-begotten Son, shining in my intellect and my will, 1964 4, 11 | which You have given me in the blood of Your Son, that 1965 4, 11 | being consumed; You consume in Your heat all the soul's 1966 4, 11 | that my soul is alive, and in this light receives You -- 1967 4, 11 | faith I have acquired wisdom in the wisdom of the Word -- 1968 4, 11 | Your only-begotten Son. In the light of faith I am 1969 4, 11 | constant, and persevering. In the light of faith I hope, 1970 4, 11 | which I should still walk in darkness, teaches me the 1971 4, 11 | sea, for the soul revels in You, Eternal Trinity, the 1972 4, 11 | creature, there represented in You, and Yourself in me 1973 4, 11 | represented in You, and Yourself in me through the union which 1974 4, 11 | angels, have given Yourself in a fire of love to men; You, 1975 4, 11 | Eternal Trinity, I have known in Your light, which You have 1976 4, 11 | may no longer serve You in darkness, but with light, 1977 4, 11 | have hitherto served You in darkness. I have not known 1978 4, 11 | benefits as You have given me in this doctrine of truth, 1979 4, 11 | a ray of grace, so that in that light I may give You 1980 Lette | Sister Catherine Petriboni in the Monastery of San Piero 1981 Lette | Monticelli near Florence. In the Name of Jesus Christ. ~ 1982 Lette, 0| Dearest Mother in Christ Jesus, and Sister 1983 Lette, 0| Christ Jesus, and Sister in the holy memory of our blessed 1984 Lette, 0| narration, I will write in any case what my feeble 1985 Lette, 0| feel so great a change both in soul and body, that she 1986 Lette, 0| which, however, she remained in very good health, robust 1987 Lette, 0| robust and fresh as usual. In these conditions we reached 1988 Lette, 0| onwards she was no longer in health. Towards the night 1989 Lette, 0| travail and bitter pains in her body, and, Lent having 1990 Lette, 0| having arrived, she began, in spite of her infirmity, 1991 Lette, 0| fervent that one hour spent in prayer by her reduced that 1992 Lette, 0| persist for two whole days in prayer. Meanwhile, every 1993 Lette, 0| she arose from the earth in such a state that any one 1994 Lette, 0| she would place herself in prayer, so remaining until 1995 Lette, 0| up till the third Sunday in Lent, when she finally succumbed, 1996 Lette, 0| externally tormented. She lay in this state for eight weeks, 1997 Lette, 0| at their pleasure." And, in truth, it evidently was 1998 Lette, 0| In this way her body continued 1999 Lette, 0| it seemed like a corpse in a picture, though I speak 2000 Lette, 0| of the bosom and limbs, in which nothing could be seen