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1001   4,     10  |        obtained and how destroyed. I have shown it to you as
1002   4,     10  |       universal key, and so it is. I have also spoken to you
1003   4,     10  |      disobedience of Adam, and how I, the Eternal Father, supreme
1004   4,     10  |          Man, sweet Jesus, of whom I made a Bridge, the road
1005   4,     10  |       Heaven being broken. And now I urge you and My other servants
1006   4,     10  |        humble and continual prayer I will do mercy to the world.
1007   4,     10  |         prisoner if you go slowly. I demand this of you now more
1008   4,     10  |        more than at first, for now I have manifested to you My
1009   4,     10  |           spend the treasure which I have given you, which is
1010   4,     11  |         the many miseries of which I am full; You, who are the
1011   4,     11  |     Infinite, have overlooked that I am finite; You, who are
1012   4,     11  |       truth through Your clemency, I have found Your charity,
1013   4,     11  |            light of faith, so that I may know and understand
1014   4,     11  |            fire so work in me that I give my body to blood, and
1015   4,     11  |         with the key of obedience, I may unlock the door of Heaven.
1016   4,     11  |         unlock the door of Heaven. I ask this of You with all
1017   4,     11  |           body of the holy Church. I confess and do not deny
1018   4,     11  |           that You loved me before I existed, and that Your love
1019   4,     11  |         Sea, into which the deeper I enter the more I find, and
1020   4,     11  |            deeper I enter the more I find, and the more I find
1021   4,     11  |          more I find, and the more I find the more I seek; the
1022   4,     11  |           the more I find the more I seek; the soul cannot be
1023   4,     11  |           praise of Your Name, for I have tasted and seen with
1024   4,     11  |          looking at myself in You, I saw myself to be Your image,
1025   4,     11  |          You and Your Son, by whom I am able to love You. You,
1026   4,     11  |       Trinity, are my Creator, and I am the work of Your hands,
1027   4,     11  |            work of Your hands, and I know through the new creation
1028   4,     11  |           do illuminate me so that I may know all Your truth;
1029   4,     11  |  abundantly and so perfectly, that I see that my soul is alive,
1030   4,     11  |       light. By the Light of faith I have acquired wisdom in
1031   4,     11  |         Son. In the light of faith I am strong, constant, and
1032   4,     11  | persevering. In the light of faith I hope, suffer me not to faint
1033   4,     11  |          This light, without which I should still walk in darkness,
1034   4,     11  |          me the road, and for this I said, Oh! Eternal Father,
1035   4,     11  |        with the hand of love, that I may see myself, who am Your
1036   4,     11  |           humanity. For this light I know to represent to myself
1037   4,     11  |       bitter, oh! Eternal Trinity, I have known in Your light,
1038   4,     11  |        supreme perfection, so that I may no longer serve You
1039   4,     11  |           but with light, and that I may be the mirror of a good
1040   4,     11  |   miserable sins, for through them I have hitherto served You
1041   4,     11  |            served You in darkness. I have not known Your truth
1042   4,     11  |         have not loved it. Why did I not know You? Because I
1043   4,     11  |            I not know You? Because I did not see You with the
1044   4,     11  |       grace, so that in that light I may give You thanks. Clothe
1045   4,     11  |            oh! Eternal Truth, that I may run my mortal course
1046   4,     11  |            faith, with which light I feel that my soul is about
1047 Lette,      0|          blessed mother Catherine, I, Barduccio, a wretched and
1048 Lette,      0|        death of so great a mother. I received your letter and
1049 Lette,      0|          end of our common mother, I am constrained to satisfy
1050 Lette,      0|          your desire; and although I know myself to be but little
1051 Lette,      0|          to give such a narration, I will write in any case what
1052 Lette,      0|       following Monday, just after I had written a letter, she
1053 Lette,      0|          appeared to us a miracle. I think, too, that you know
1054 Lette,      0|          evidently was so; for, if I were to attempt to explain
1055 Lette,      0|     terrible and unheard-of agony, I should fear to injure, by
1056 Lette,      0|          explained. This only will I say, that, every time that
1057 Lette,      0|        corpse in a picture, though I speak not of the face, which
1058 Lette,      0|        silence, she began to say: "I have sinned! Oh Lord, have
1059 Lette,      0|         mercy on me!" And this, as I believe, she repeated more
1060 Lette,      0|      joyous, in such a manner that I could not doubt that, like
1061 Lette,      0|           oh eternal Trinity, that I have offended You so miserably
1062 Lette,      0|         other defects. Wretch that I am! for I have not observed
1063 Lette,      0|     defects. Wretch that I am! for I have not observed Your commandments,
1064 Lette,      0|  particular! Oh mean creature that I am!" Saying which, she struck
1065 Lette,      0|        confession, and continued: "I have not observed Your precept,
1066 Lette,      0|      labors for my neighbor, while I, on the contrary, have fled
1067 Lette,      0|             to comfort myself? But I have sought my own consolation.
1068 Lette,      0|         beauty to Your Spouse; but I, wretched one, have not
1069 Lette,      0|                   Oh, unhappy that I am! You have placed me in
1070 Lette,      0|            many beloved sons, that I should love them with singular
1071 Lette,      0|            by the way of Life, but I have been to them nothing
1072 Lette,      0|          mirror of human weakness; I have had no care of them;
1073 Lette,      0|          have had no care of them; I have not helped them with
1074 Lette,      0|            Your presence, nor have I given them sufficient examples
1075 Lette,      0|             Oh, mean creature that I am! with how little reverence
1076 Lette,      0|          how little reverence have I received Your innumerable
1077 Lette,      0|        this fragile body, nor have I endured them with that burning
1078 Lette,      0|     beginning of my childhood, but I was not faithful enough;
1079 Lette,      0|          faithful enough; in fact, I was unfaithful to You, because
1080 Lette,      0|         unfaithful to You, because I did not keep my memory faithful
1081 Lette,      0|            high benefits; nor have I fixed my intelligence on
1082 Lette,      0|         accuse herself, rather, as I think, for our example than
1083 Lette,      0|            of all these sins which I have confessed in the presence
1084 Lette,      0|            of all the others which I cannot remember." That done,
1085 Lette,      0|            the Blood of Christ. So I did what she asked, and
1086 Lette,      0|         very profound things which I, for my sins, was not worthy
1087 Lette,      0|            of the grief with which I was laboring and the anguish
1088 Lette,      0|         sorrowful mother, all that I can say is that it was a
1089 Lette,      0|         You, oh Lord, call me, and I come to You, not through
1090 Lette,      0|            Your mercy alone, which I ask of You, in virtue of
1091 Lette,      0|            Father, into Your Hands I commend my soul and my spirit,"
1092 Lette,      0|            time, which in my hurry I omit. Her tomb is visited
1093 Lette,      0|            His blessed spouse, and I doubt not that there will
1094 Lette,      0|          great by hearing of them. I say no more. Recommend me
1095 Lette,      0|           and all the sisters, for I have, at present, the greatest