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1001   4,      6  |        intellect on Me, and seeing with the light of faith that
1002   4,      6  |         prayers, or busies himself with some corporal exercises,
1003   4,      6  |           idleness. He looks at Me with the light which I give him
1004   4,      6  |            himself in his own mind with hatred and self-reproach,
1005   4,      6  |           providence fail him, but with faith and the key of obedience
1006   4,      6  |       regards him in his eagerness with a holy envy, stealing from
1007   4,      6  |         delights at being at table with the poor. And as a sign
1008   4,      6  |          use, but freely shares it with his brethren, not thinking
1009   4,      6  |    refusing labor, but serving all with charity. The obedient man
1010   4,      6  |       weariness of mind. He passes with this key in his hand through
1011   4,      6  |         impatience, but is patient with fortitude and enduring perseverance,
1012   4,      6  |           delights and clothing it with the labors of the order
1013   4,      6  |             hatred, or rancor, but with meekness and benevolence. ~
1014   4,      6  |            subjected through love, with true and holy obedience,
1015   4,      6  |        supreme and eternal Father, with the true citizens of the
1016   4,      7  |           like a mistress bringing with her the fruit of all the
1017   4,      7  |       which they had hoped, and so with all the other virtues, Queen
1018   4,      7  |           act towards her neighbor with dissembling and ambition,
1019   4,      7  |     affliction of sadness, or jars with obedience, remains obedient
1020   4,      8  |          ship of a religious order with so much pain to himself
1021   4,      8  |           the sting of conscience, with hatred of his order and
1022   4,      8  |           he has made his mistress with her companion impatience,
1023   4,      8  |         his desires are in discord with the will of the order. The
1024   4,      8  |            his intellect is fixed, with a dead faith, on pleasing
1025   4,      8  |     navigate this tempestuous sea, with the strength of his own
1026   4,      8  |            he labors more swimming with his arms, than the good
1027   4,      8  |          he has darkened his light with the cloud of self-love,
1028   4,      8  |          one who should feed souls with the seed of My Word, but
1029   4,      8  |           the seed of My Word, but with eloquent language. Look
1030   4,      8  |            he voluntarily welcomes with delight and pleasure, not
1031   4,      8  |         and the first to leave it; with his lips he approaches Me,
1032   4,      8  |         his lips he approaches Me, with his heart he is far from
1033   4,      8  |            be there, he is covered with shame and confusion for
1034   4,      8  |          but himself, and that not with a reasonable but with a
1035   4,      8  |          not with a reasonable but with a bestial love. So great
1036   4,      8  |           Disobedience clothes him with every misery, causes him
1037   4,      8  |         good, causing him to dwell with every evil in life it gives
1038   4,      8  |        eternal damnation, together with the devils who fell from
1039   4,      8  |           instead the door of hell with the key of disobedience." ~
1040   4,      9  |       sometimes these latter labor with such fire of love, seeing
1041   4,      9  |           is out of his mouth, for with the light of faith they
1042   4,      9  |            patience, sent him away with harsh words, saying: 'Beast
1043   4,      9  |        brought along another beast with yourself.' And as to fire,
1044   4,      9  |          himself, but thought only with the light of faith of how
1045   4,      9  |    contemplation and union of mind with Me, that your body was raised
1046   4,      9  |            his cell? By obedience, with the light of the most holy
1047   4,      9  |            of the most holy faith, with which light he has slain
1048   4,      9  |   self-will, and abandoned himself with self-hatred to the arms
1049   4,      9  |       order and superior. Reposing with obedience in the ship, allowing
1050   4,      9  |      tempestuous sea of this life, with calm and serene mind and
1051   4,      9  |          so she becomes inebriated with the love and obedience of
1052   4,      9  |         grace, tasting Me by love, with the light of faith in holy
1053   4,      9  |            have in Myself, I share with you, and with all, according
1054   4,      9  |      Myself, I share with you, and with all, according to the measure
1055   4,      9  |            then, the obedient man, with the light of faith in the
1056   4,      9  |       furnace of charity, anointed with humility, inebriated with
1057   4,      9  |          with humility, inebriated with the Blood, in company with
1058   4,      9  |         with the Blood, in company with his sister patience, and
1059   4,      9  |           his sister patience, and with self- contempt, fortitude,
1060   4,      9  |            other virtues (that is, with the fruit of the virtues),
1061   4,     10  |          made four petitions of Me with anxious desire, or rather
1062   4,     10  |        satisfied, illuminating you with My Truth, and showing you
1063   4,     10  |          Good, unless it is united with the desire of the soul and
1064   4,     10  |           the union of My divinity with your human nature. ~
1065   4,     10  |           endure, Myself lamenting with you over her iniquities.
1066   4,     10  |          life, and manifested this with the blood of My only-begotten
1067   4,     10  |           which scatters darkness, with which doctrine clothe yourself,
1068   4,     11  |        Then that soul, having seen with the eye of the intellect,
1069   4,     11  |             hearing and tasting it with love and ecstatic desire,
1070   4,     11  |            the eye of my intellect with the light of faith, so that
1071   4,     11  |        love of the Blood, together with the key of obedience, I
1072   4,     11  |          Heaven. I ask this of You with all my heart, forevery rational
1073   4,     11  |      ineffable, as if You were mad with love for Your creature.
1074   4,     11  |       Trinity, desiring to see You with light in Your light. As
1075   4,     11  |         for I have tasted and seen with the light of the intellect
1076   4,     11  |   intellect and my will, being one with Your Holy Spirit, who proceeds
1077   4,     11  |         which takes away all cold; with Your light You do illuminate
1078   4,     11  |            You have illuminated me with the light of holy faith.
1079   4,     11  |            bid me gaze, holding it with the hand of love, that I
1080   4,     11  |           You made of Your godhead with our humanity. For this light
1081   4,     11  |         nakedness, feed the hungry with Your sweetness. Oh! Sweet,
1082   4,     11  |            which You have given me with the light of holy faith,
1083   4,     11  |         serve You in darkness, but with light, and that I may be
1084   4,     11  |          Because I did not see You with the glorious light of the
1085   4,     11  |            dissipated the darkness with Your light. Who can attain
1086   4,     11  |            servant, penetrating me with a ray of grace, so that
1087   4,     11  |       thanks. Clothe me, clothe me with You, oh! Eternal Truth,
1088   4,     11  |           may run my mortal course with true obedience and the light
1089   4,     11  |           the light of holy faith, with which light I feel that
1090 Lette,      0|            your letter and read it with much pleasure, and communicated
1091 Lette,      0|           to her, that it was only with the greatest difficulty
1092 Lette,      0|          breath seemed to be fire, with all which, however, she
1093 Lette,      0|         infirmity, to give herself with such application of mind
1094 Lette,      0|        called around her, and she, with singular humility and devotion,
1095 Lette,      0|          and to make various signs with her head and her arms as
1096 Lette,      0|           the above-mentioned time with many other formulas of prayer
1097 Lette,      0|           succeeded in rising, and with a little help began to sit
1098 Lette,      0|          offended You so miserably with my negligence, ignorance,
1099 Lette,      0|         not observed Your precept, with which You commanded me to
1100 Lette,      0|            salvation of souls, and with this food alone, taken from
1101 Lette,      0|          them, You would use mercy with the world, and give new
1102 Lette,      0|         one, have not corresponded with Your desire, but have remained
1103 Lette,      0|            that I should love them with singular love and direct
1104 Lette,      0|             I have not helped them with continuous and humble prayer
1105 Lette,      0|           mean creature that I am! with how little reverence have
1106 Lette,      0|            nor have I endured them with that burning desire and
1107 Lette,      0|     burning desire and ardent love with which You sent them to me.
1108 Lette,      0|            to love You immediately with all its strength." ~
1109 Lette,      0|           began afresh to adore it with the greatest devotion, and
1110 Lette,      0|            on account of the grief with which I was laboring and
1111 Lette,      0|           laboring and the anguish with which her throat was oppressed,
1112 Lette,      0|                   Oh! had you seen with what humility and reverence
1113 Lette,      0|         life for that truth. Then, with the greatest fervor, she
1114 Lette,      0|   disciples to the Father, praying with such affection, that, at
1115 Lette,      0|         spirit," and thus sweetly, with a face all shining and angelical,