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501 3, 15 | hunger without suffering, for, in Me, no perfection is 502 3, 15 | Me with anything finite. For I, who am the Infinite God, 503 3, 15 | pain or physical weeping, for physical tears have evaporated 504 3, 16 | It remains for Me to tell you of the fruit 505 3, 16 | and this is the truth, for the heart grieves in proportion 506 3, 16 | is the tree of the soul. For you are all trees of love, 507 3, 16 | without love you cannot live, for you have been made by Me 508 3, 16 | you have been made by Me for love. The soul who lives 509 3, 16 | the foulness of its root, for no good actions done by 510 3, 16 | mortal sin are of value for eternal life, for they are 511 3, 16 | value for eternal life, for they are not done in grace. 512 3, 16 | that which I give them for life, to have been given 513 3, 16 | to have been given them for death. They condemn and 514 3, 16 | to their weak intellect; for they have blinded the eye 515 3, 16 | not yet know himself. And, for an action which he may see, 516 3, 16 | action which he may see, or for a word he may hear, he will 517 3, 16 | these always judge badly, for they are founded on evil. 518 3, 16 | used in love of virtue, and for the salvation of the neighbor. 519 3, 16 | temporal loss may not occur! For you have all heard and seen 520 3, 16 | a space not large enough for a knife. ~ 521 3, 16 | can be fed by the earth; for their hunger is insatiable, 522 3, 17 | devout soul, thanking God for His explanation of the above-mentioned 523 3, 17 | servant of Yours to ask for counsel, how should I teach 524 3, 17 | occasion, when I am praying for Your creatures, and in particular 525 3, 17 | creatures, and in particular for Your servants, and I seem 526 3, 17 | of spiritual self-love; for if it were so, I would humbly 527 3, 17 | creatures and servants. For it seems to me that the 528 3, 18 | can increase My delight, for I am the cause of you and 529 3, 18 | it by your own defects. For, in baptism, and through 530 3, 18 | arrive at Me, the True Light, for, without it, you would plunge 531 3, 18 | It is necessary for you to have two lights derived 532 3, 18 | prove the love which she has for Me, her Creator. How does 533 3, 18 | and is in no way matter for pride, but rather for true 534 3, 18 | matter for pride, but rather for true and perfect humility. 535 3, 18 | possess, as has been said, for, without it, the soul would 536 3, 18 | state of damnation. And, for this reason, because the 537 3, 18 | an instrument and means for you to receive My grace, 538 3, 18 | necessary is this light, for your sins consist in nothing 539 3, 18 | a one walks as if blind, for he knows not the cause of 540 3, 19 | and reaching the perfect. For, if the soul truly have 541 3, 19 | two kinds of perfection; for they may be called perfect 542 3, 19 | the Devil, not, indeed, for my own pleasure, but in 543 3, 19 | tribulations as they may be needed for your salvation, and to complete 544 3, 20 | is the rule of the road for perfect and imperfect alike. 545 3, 20 | which I have made straight for you by means of My Truth, 546 3, 20 | promptly, and follow Him, for no one can reach Me, the 547 3, 20 | mercenary love, that is of love for Me based on interested motives, 548 3, 20 | with no other regard than for the praise and glory of 549 3, 20 | Name, serving neither Me for her own delight, nor her 550 3, 20 | delight, nor her neighbor for her own profit, but purely 551 3, 20 | no one scandalizes them, for they have cut away that 552 3, 20 | temptations, and do not hurt them, for they remain attached to 553 3, 20 | compassion, interceding with Me for sinners and saying, with 554 3, 20 | glorious light and holiness, for they have holy minds, and 555 3, 20 | murmurings of men, either for their own sake or that of 556 3, 20 | content to endure anything for My Name's sake; and when 557 3, 20 | by the affection of love, for I am the Supreme and Eternal 558 3, 20 | fall into such iniquities, for they are separated from 559 3, 20 | Another thing is necessary for you to arrive at this union 560 3, 20 | frequently have a good intention, for no one can judge the secrets 561 3, 20 | you may arrive at the end for which I created you. And 562 3, 20 | and not their evil will, for I am their Judge, not you, 563 3, 21 | and hunger without pain, for from that divine hunger 564 3, 21 | disgust is far from satiety, for I am the flawless Food of 565 3, 21 | the soul begins to hunger for the honor of the Eternal 566 3, 21 | of the Eternal God, and for the food of the salvation 567 3, 21 | causes her hunger and desire, for the love of the neighbor 568 3, 21 | arrived at Me, Eternal Life, for, as has been said, their 569 3, 21 | grief through compassion for their neighbor, and because 570 3, 22 | herself; then she prays for the whole world and particularly 571 3, 22 | whole world and particularly for the mystical body of the 572 3, 22 | of the holy Church, and for her spiritual children, 573 3, 22 | spiritual children, and for the two fathers of her soul; 574 3, 22 | the Blood which You gave for the diseased human race 575 3, 22 | and I do not beseech You for myself alone, Father, but 576 3, 22 | myself alone, Father, but for the whole world, and particularly 577 3, 22 | world, and particularly for the mystical body of the 578 3, 22 | I beseech You especially for all those whom You have 579 3, 22 | another petition to You for my two fathers, the supports 580 3, 22 | reverence and holy fear, for love of You, in a way that 581 3, 22 | the neighbor. I now know for certain, Eternal Truth, 582 3, 22 | so as to have material for increasing my grief, compassion, 583 3, 22 | compassion, and anxious desire for their salvation; for I remember 584 3, 22 | desire for their salvation; for I remember that You said, 585 3, 23 | ignorance or negligence; for a fault of yours would be 586 3, 23 | yourself attentively to pray for all rational creatures, 587 3, 23 | all rational creatures, for the mystical body of the 588 3, 23 | of the holy Church, and for those friends whom I have 589 3, 23 | grant you the opportunity, for without Me you can do nothing, 590 3, 24 | excellence than the angels, for I took your human nature 591 3, 24 | especially chosen My ministers for the sake of your salvation, 592 3, 24 | perfect is their union; for, the sun, never leaving 593 3, 24 | impurity on which it shines, for its light and heat and color 594 3, 24 | Father, or from Him, the Son; for He is one thing with us, 595 3, 24 | to others, with gratitude for the benefits received from 596 3, 24 | whiteness of the bread; for as the sun cannot be divided 597 3, 24 | white mantle of the host; for even if the host should 598 3, 24 | it. The material is love, for through love I created you, 599 3, 24 | of the Blood of the Word, for, in no other way, could 600 3, 24 | created by Me, so fitted for love, that, without love, 601 3, 24 | which it brings to the fire; for although you all have one 602 3, 24 | it while you have time, for when time is past you can 603 3, 24 | I have given you as Food for your service, through My 604 3, 24 | brought near the flame, for no sooner has the fire touched 605 3, 24 | disposed as she should be for so great a mystery, does 606 3, 24 | only greater confusion, for her light is extinguished 607 3, 24 | defect of the Light Itself, for that can receive no hurt, 608 3, 25 | into the abyss of My love, for there is no rational creature 609 3, 25 | whose heart would not melt for love in contemplating and 610 3, 25 | remained. I showed it to you for your enlightenment in the 611 3, 25 | the sight of the bread, for neither its whiteness, nor 612 3, 25 | pupil of the holy faith, for this eye should be your 613 3, 25 | but not those of the soul, for she is illuminated and assured 614 3, 25 | in her own perceptions, for she touches with the hand 615 3, 26 | that soul grace dwells, for, since she has received 616 3, 26 | Abyss of My loving desire for your salvation has given 617 3, 27 | himself has no such dignity, for I have given it to those 618 3, 27 | those men whom I have chosen for My ministers, and whom I 619 3, 27 | of charity, and a hunger for the salvation of souls, 620 3, 27 | the salvation of souls, for the glory and honor of My 621 3, 27 | their fellow-creatures; for, if by sin they are cruel 622 3, 28 | you, who are like the sun, for the odor of their virtues 623 3, 28 | the warmth and the color, for they are united together 624 3, 28 | and ordered in My Name. For, as soon as the eye of the 625 3, 28 | the condition of the Sun, for, having clothed themselves, 626 3, 28 | humility. And, as if famished for such food, they feed upon 627 3, 28 | He should give His life for you. These have followed 628 3, 28 | their members become putrid for want of correcting, but 629 3, 28 | were not guilty of sin), for My gardeners corrected them 630 3, 28 | it, and without any sin, for they balanced exactly the 631 3, 28 | self-love, or by their desire for lordship and prelacy, and 632 3, 28 | themselves find the excuse for the guilty ones not to be 633 3, 28 | They fear not to correct, for he who does not desire lordship 634 3, 28 | humility, and cared not for scorn or villainies, or 635 3, 28 | thoughts, and offering up for them before Me, sweet and 636 3, 28 | not fearing, or caring if for them and their subjects 637 3, 28 | there were some even who, for the sake of the poor, left 638 3, 28 | the spiritual, caring not for them. But they, miserable, 639 3, 28 | provides all things necessary for the soul and the body, and 640 3, 28 | he believed that I being for him, no one could be against 641 3, 28 | beloved, have full experience, for nothing could injure their 642 3, 28 | virtues; and because I, for the salvation of souls, 643 3, 28 | even out of love and hunger for souls they gave themselves 644 3, 28 | with the broadness of love for their neighbors, and those 645 3, 28 | and giving them penance for the sins they committed -- 646 3, 28 | penance -- together with them. For through love, they who gave 647 3, 28 | thus? The hunger and desire for My honor and the salvation 648 3, 28 | any labor, but with zeal for souls and for the good of 649 3, 28 | with zeal for souls and for the good of the holy Church 650 3, 29 | excellence of good priests (for what I have shown you is 651 3, 29 | them, having elected them for My ministers, on account 652 3, 29 | of any personal defect, for those who punish them offend 653 3, 29 | them in due reverence, not for their own sakes, as I have 654 3, 29 | sakes, as I have said, but for Mine, by reason of the authority 655 3, 29 | goodness I have spoken to you; for all alike have been appointed 656 3, 29 | reverence you should hold them, for they are My beloved children 657 3, 29 | receive it, and you to pray for it; for it is not according 658 3, 29 | and you to pray for it; for it is not according to My 659 3, 29 | this state, you should pray for them, and not judge them, 660 3, 29 | the cause of their ruin. For if they do not accept the 661 3, 30 | perfection of his soul. For I wish you to know that 662 3, 30 | entirely lost all tenderness for his body, which tenderness 663 3, 30 | conscience remains in peace; for during his life his conscience 664 3, 30 | the guards by its barking, for in this way the dog of conscience 665 3, 30 | but rather profitable, for the soul recollected in 666 3, 30 | to you in another place, for with the eye of the intellect 667 3, 30 | reaches Me, the Sea Pacific. For sea and door are united 668 3, 30 | sweetly arrived at this pass, for in Truth she tastes the 669 3, 30 | have lived like angels, for in this life have they lived 670 3, 30 | and with greater hunger for the salvation of souls. 671 3, 30 | eating souls in My honor. For just as everyone has the 672 3, 30 | the extremity of death! For they have been the defenders 673 3, 30 | have not been ungrateful for the benefits received from 674 3, 30 | in the blood, with hunger for the salvation of souls, 675 3, 30 | souls, all on fire with love for the neighbor, having passed 676 3, 31 | to despair. Oh! how hard for them is this battle, because 677 3, 31 | this is great presumption, for you cannot truly say that 678 3, 31 | thus arrive at despair; for this final sin of despair 679 3, 31 | and they sometimes grieve for them, and if they grieve 680 3, 31 | which moves you to despair, for there is no pleasure and 681 3, 31 | and does not truly grieve for his offense against Me as 682 3, 31 | should, grieving indeed for his own loss, but not for 683 3, 31 | for his own loss, but not for the offense done to Me, 684 3, 31 | hell, where he is punished for this and all the other sins 685 3, 31 | he grieved and repented for the offense done to Me, 686 3, 31 | would have found mercy, for, as I have said to you, 687 3, 31 | hope greatly in My mercy, for when, having fed themselves 688 3, 31 | are not hid from you now, for the worm of conscience sleeps 689 3, 31 | vessels and other adornments for your house. Whereas you 690 3, 31 | to please creatures, nor for the sake of gifts, but solely 691 3, 31 | so you are reproved, and for your greater pain and confusion 692 3, 31 | to all others in general, for at death when the soul begins 693 3, 31 | sins that he has committed, for his conscience places them 694 3, 31 | practiced. Why the virtues? For his greater shame. For vice 695 3, 31 | For his greater shame. For vice being placed on a ground 696 3, 31 | wherefore he grieves the more, for he sees that his own life 697 3, 31 | self-knowledge and shame for his sins, with hope, so 698 3, 31 | and knowledge he may pay for his sins, and appease My 699 3, 31 | in knowledge of My love, for he attributes the grace 700 3, 31 | causes no harm or fear, for fear and harm can only be 701 3, 31 | particular of these ministers, for the more they have received 702 3, 31 | confusion do they receive for not fulfilling them; the 703 3, 31 | more than other Christians for the same sin, on account 704 3, 31 | to discern the truth both for themselves and others had 705 3, 31 | wretches do not know this, for did they consider their 706 3, 31 | ought to be and are not. For the whole world has thus 707 3, 31 | according to their state; for with their stench they defile 708 3, 31 | nothing but stripping her for their own advantage, seizing 709 3, 32 | thanking GOD, made a prayer for the Holy Church. ~ 710 3, 32 | be thankful and grateful for me, that is, that the affection 711 3, 32 | even than I knew how to ask for. Wherefore I know in truth 712 3, 32 | creature cannot desire enough; for she cannot desire it in 713 3, 32 | filling her with things for which she does not ask You. 714 3, 32 | the love which You have for the whole human race, and 715 3, 32 | race, and in particular for Your anointed ones, who 716 3, 32 | done to the whole world, for they do harm to the world, 717 3, 32 | thanks to You, oh! Father, for having granted me that which 718 3, 32 | neither knew nor asked, for by thus giving me matter 719 3, 32 | by thus giving me matter for grief You have invited me 720 3, 32 | refuse it to him who asks for it. Your servants knock 721 3, 32 | ineffable love which You have for man, wherefore the fire 722 3, 32 | hearts of Your creatures, not for their sakes who do not knock, 723 3, 32 | servants who knock at You for their sakes. Grant the prayer 724 3, 32 | of Your truth and pray. For what do they pray? For with 725 3, 32 | For what do they pray? For with the Blood of this door -- 726 3, 32 | sin. The Blood is ours, for You have made it our bath, 727 3, 32 | to any one who truly asks for it. Give, then, the fruit 728 3, 32 | obedience, laid down His life for Your lambs, and made for 729 3, 32 | for Your lambs, and made for us a bath of His Blood. ~ 730 3, 32 | the love which You have for Your rational creatures, 731 3, 32 | of Your mercy towards us, for You must first reply to 732 3, 32 | before even we can knock, for it is with the affection 733 3, 32 | Son, which they ask of You for the praise and glory of 734 3, 32 | the salvation of souls. For more glory and praise will 735 3, 32 | and dispose them to wish for that for which they do not 736 3, 32 | dispose them to wish for that for which they do not wish; 737 4, 1 | is also good and perfect; for no one at all can reach 738 4, 1 | life if he be not obedient, for the door was unlocked by 739 4, 1 | sweet key of obedience; for as you know He left His 740 4, 1 | Word? The love which He had for My honor and your salvation. 741 4, 1 | this vision most perfectly for Him, which vision you imperfectly 742 4, 1 | Jesus, My only-begotten Son. For who abased Himself more 743 4, 1 | was more patient than He? for His cry was never heard 744 4, 1 | doctrine, which gives you life, for it is the straight way, 745 4, 1 | the Truth, and the Life.' For he who travels by that way, 746 4, 1 | without perceiving it. For He has cast from Himself 747 4, 1 | fell into disobedience; for as I spoke to you of a companion 748 4, 2 | founded upon obedience, for by it you prove your fidelity. 749 4, 2 | to Me and his neighbor, for he loves Me and My creature, 750 4, 2 | the law, and to creatures for My sake, and with humble 751 4, 2 | been opened by the Word; for though I created you without 752 4, 2 | blinder than the blind, for, having spoiled the key 753 4, 2 | not imagine that you can, for it is a fantastical delusion; 754 4, 2 | bind your loins with it, for fear you lose it. Know, 755 4, 2 | the cord of self-contempt, for they do not desire to be 756 4, 2 | are apt to lose their key; for if they suffer a little 757 4, 2 | have lost it? Impatience, for patience was united to obedience, 758 4, 2 | which contains all the rest, for she is conceived and born 759 4, 2 | erect, without bending, for your heart is sincere and 760 4, 2 | produce life-giving fruit for yourself and your neighbor. 761 4, 2 | You are even cheerful, for your face is never wrinkled 762 4, 2 | that no one can rule you, for you have come out of the 763 4, 3 | providence as I have told you, for by My providence the Word 764 4, 3 | disobedience, it is very hard for them to do so, on account 765 4, 3 | the moment of his death, for although everyone may and 766 4, 3 | endure intolerable pain, for it has seduced them from 767 4, 3 | the most perfect peace, for there they possess every 768 4, 3 | of the mud of impurity, for you seem like pigs to wallow 769 4, 3 | the object of your hate, for you deprive him of your 770 4, 4 | those who have such love for obedience that they do not 771 4, 4 | first, but is more perfect, for, as I have already told 772 4, 5 | brought her to the first, for by the light of the most 773 4, 5 | ineffable love which I have for her, and her own fragility, 774 4, 5 | and persevere till death, for no true judgment can be 775 4, 5 | only on their perseverance, for many have appeared to be 776 4, 5 | does not supply material for a real judgment, but only 777 4, 5 | so that there is no need for the subject to think about 778 4, 5 | either temporal or spiritual, for if he is truly obedient, 779 4, 5 | order, he will be provided for by his Master, who is the 780 4, 5 | beggars. No more are these, for they find everything they 781 4, 5 | the fruit of disobedience, for had they been obedient and 782 4, 5 | first to give his order for spouse, true and holy poverty, 783 4, 5 | poverty, whom he had chosen for himself, embracing self-contempt 784 4, 5 | sufferings, and jibes, for love of the humble Lamb, 785 4, 5 | foundation of his order in love for this poverty, and made it 786 4, 5 | and made it very strict for those who were perfect, 787 4, 5 | those who were perfect, for the few and the good, not 788 4, 5 | the few and the good, not for the majority. I say few 789 4, 5 | sign that he had chosen for his spouse Queen Poverty. 790 4, 5 | spouse Queen Poverty. But for his more immediate and personal 791 4, 5 | desire, when souls are eaten for My honor. Dominic does not 792 4, 5 | nothing else, he chose poverty for them, so that they might 793 4, 5 | they would not be provided for, but he never. Being clothed 794 4, 5 | but only in their souls, for there, where pride is, can 795 4, 5 | true light, he provided for those who should be less 796 4, 5 | should be less perfect, for though all who observe the 797 4, 5 | itself is in this condition, for it still possesses every 798 4, 5 | science infused by grace, for he obtained it rather by 799 4, 5 | the moment of his death, for when he was at the last 800 4, 5 | knew that he was to die, for I had revealed to him his 801 4, 6 | Now that places suitable for obedience have been found, 802 4, 6 | medium of their superiors, for, as I told you, the Holy 803 4, 6 | take the nurse of humility, for without this nurse obedience 804 4, 6 | would perish of hunger, for obedience soon dies in a 805 4, 6 | however he may enter it (for I have told you that I call 806 4, 6 | refusing to possess anything, for they see by the light of 807 4, 6 | the neck of their will, for they fulfill their obedience 808 4, 6 | ruined on another point, for they transgress the vow 809 4, 6 | transgress the vow of continence, for he who does not constrain 810 4, 6 | of friends who love him for their own profit. From these 811 4, 6 | body they tend luxuriously, for being without either the 812 4, 6 | they have money to spend, for if they had it not they 813 4, 6 | mental and physical impurity, for if sometimes from shame 814 4, 6 | indulge themselves mentally, for it is impossible for a man 815 4, 6 | mentally, for it is impossible for a man with many worldly 816 4, 6 | obedience wherewith to open it, for as I said to you, he is 817 4, 6 | the enemy of self-love, for he does not wish that his 818 4, 6 | possesses peace and quiet, for her enemies have been exiled. 819 4, 6 | the object of My Truth, for her object is My Truth, 820 4, 6 | in peace without any war, for there is no one to make 821 4, 6 | one to make war on him, for the soul has cut off from 822 4, 6 | obedience? Injuries? No, for the obedient man is patient, 823 4, 6 | observances of the order? No, for obedience causes him to 824 4, 6 | obedience give him pain? No, for he has trampled on his own 825 4, 6 | the will of his superior, for with the light of faith 826 4, 6 | held at little worth? No, for he has conceived love for 827 4, 6 | for he has conceived love for self- contempt and self-hatred. 828 4, 6 | spouse, true obedience, for the only thing which saddens 829 4, 6 | them out of their misery, for through the brotherly love 830 4, 6 | draws forth true humility, for he deems himself unworthy 831 4, 6 | but rather worthy of pain, for he despises himself in his 832 4, 6 | never endure enough pain, for neither his hope nor My 833 4, 6 | should have less thereof, for if he wished this he would 834 4, 6 | poverty that he blames himself for considering even the necessities 835 4, 6 | not think of laying it by for his own use, but freely 836 4, 6 | which despises nothing, for as a child who does not 837 4, 6 | them should be the greater, for calling a child, He said: ' 838 4, 6 | little ones to come to Me, for of such is the kingdom of 839 4, 6 | enter the kingdom of heaven. For he who humbles himself, 840 4, 6 | when they are rewarded for all their labors, and in 841 4, 7 | obedient receive a hundredfold for one, and also eternal lift; 842 4, 7 | we have left everything for your love's sake, and have 843 4, 7 | will give you a hundredfold for one, and you shall possess 844 4, 7 | You have done well, Peter, for in no other way could you 845 4, 7 | will give you a hundredfold for one.' And what is this hundredfold, 846 4, 7 | temporal goods? In return for what do I this? In return 847 4, 7 | what do I this? In return for the gift of his own will. 848 4, 7 | own will. This is the one for which I repay him a hundredfold. 849 4, 7 | also possess eternal life, for charity alone enters into 850 4, 7 | they taste eternal life, for they experience in its essence 851 4, 7 | through faith; nor by hope, for they possess that for which 852 4, 7 | hope, for they possess that for which they had hoped, and 853 4, 7 | ones receive a hundredfold for one, and also eternal life, 854 4, 7 | and also eternal life, for here they receive the fire 855 4, 7 | wonderful and hearty joy, for there is no sadness in charity, 856 4, 8 | has made himself a slave, for of disobedience he has made 857 4, 8 | issues from self-love. For him everything is the contrary 858 4, 8 | contrary to what it would be for the obedient man. For how 859 4, 8 | be for the obedient man. For how can this wretch be in 860 4, 8 | other state than suffering, for he is deprived of charity, 861 4, 8 | greatest weariness of all, for he is obliged to obey either 862 4, 8 | gives himself displeasure, for the actions which he will 863 4, 8 | continually proves it to him; for when he is in a nice pleasant 864 4, 8 | he would like to remain for the pleasures and delights 865 4, 8 | the change gives him pain, for his will was active against 866 4, 8 | how he deludes himself; for, wishing to fly pain, he 867 4, 8 | contrary falls into it, for his blindness does not let 868 4, 8 | that is his own passion for disobedience. Such a man 869 4, 8 | danger of eternal death; for if his clothes should be 870 4, 8 | remedy. No, he does not see, for he has darkened his light 871 4, 8 | stench of disobedience, for, in the secret of his heart, 872 4, 8 | will; a stench of impurity, for he takes delight in many 873 4, 8 | have not chosen the virtues for your children as does the 874 4, 8 | your hurt which was done for your good, and thus taking 875 4, 8 | displeased you? Because you live for your own sensual pleasure, 876 4, 8 | as if it were a prison, for you have abandoned the cell 877 4, 8 | table, or of providing food for himself like this wretched 878 4, 8 | with shame and confusion for the faults which he felt 879 4, 9 | does, or the length of time for which he works, that is 880 4, 9 | of the vineyard to labor; for he gave as much to those 881 4, 9 | word is out of his mouth, for with the light of faith 882 4, 9 | miraculous signs and testimonies, for it proceeds from the height 883 4, 9 | the obedient man. And as for the obedience of the earth, 884 4, 9 | animals obey the obedient man; for a certain disciple, commanded 885 4, 9 | else should be abandoned for the sake of obedience. If 886 4, 9 | never leave prayer, except for necessity, charity, or obedience. 887 4, 9 | ineffable love which I have for her, and the obedience imposed 888 4, 9 | can value or understand, for, being the infinite good, 889 4, 10 | My love in your soul: one for yourself, which I have satisfied, 890 4, 10 | In the third you prayed for the mystical body of the 891 4, 10 | finite time can satisfy for a sin committed against 892 4, 10 | is My special attribute, for through the mercy and the 893 4, 10 | inestimable love which I had for man, I sent to the earth 894 4, 10 | request, that I would provide for the particular case of an 895 4, 10 | circumstance of your life for your good, in order that 896 4, 10 | other servants to grief, for by your grief and humble 897 4, 10 | now more than at first, for now I have manifested to 898 4, 11 | praising God, makes prayer for the whole world and for 899 4, 11 | for the whole world and for the Holy Church, and commending 900 4, 11 | You, oh eternal Father, for You have not despised me, 901 4, 11 | that by that blood given for love of the Blood, together 902 4, 11 | existed, and that Your love for me is ineffable, as if You 903 4, 11 | if You were mad with love for Your creature. Oh, eternal 904 4, 11 | satiated in Your abyss, for she continually hungers 905 4, 11 | body, and to give my life for the glory and praise of 906 4, 11 | and praise of Your Name, for I have tasted and seen with 907 4, 11 | beauty of Your creature, for, looking at myself in You, 908 4, 11 | teaches me the road, and for this I said, Oh! Eternal 909 4, 11 | truth this light is a sea, for the soul revels in You, 910 4, 11 | causes no fear to the soul, for she knows the truth; it 911 4, 11 | godhead with our humanity. For this light I know to represent 912 4, 11 | Wisdom above all wisdom -- for You are wisdom itself. You, 913 4, 11 | from my miserable sins, for through them I have hitherto 914 4, 11 | Greatness, and give You thanks for such immeasurable gifts 915 Lette, 0| who, supremely grateful for your great charity and tender 916 Lette, 0| recommend themselves greatly, for their part, to your prayers, 917 Lette, 0| the action of taking food for her sustenance becoming 918 Lette, 0| water could she swallow for refreshment, whence came 919 Lette, 0| dead, remaining under it for a long time without giving 920 Lette, 0| Then, rising, she stood for an equal space of time, 921 Lette, 0| by one who should persist for two whole days in prayer. 922 Lette, 0| tormented. She lay in this state for eight weeks, unable to lift 923 Lette, 0| physical, but not natural; for it seems that God has given 924 Lette, 0| truth, it evidently was so; for, if I were to attempt to 925 Lette, 0| You, oh eternal Spouse, for granting such graces afresh 926 Lette, 0| receive Holy Absolution for her faults and the pains 927 Lette, 0| in this calamitous state for an hour and a half, half 928 Lette, 0| defects. Wretch that I am! for I have not observed Your 929 Lette, 0| to spend myself in labors for my neighbor, while I, on 930 Lette, 0| humble and continuous prayers for the salvation of the whole 931 Lette, 0| salvation of the whole world and for the reformation of the holy 932 Lette, 0| excessive goodness You chose me for Your spouse, from the beginning 933 Lette, 0| herself, rather, as I think, for our example than for her 934 Lette, 0| think, for our example than for her own need, and then, 935 Lette, 0| turning to the priest, said: "For the love of Christ crucified, 936 Lette, 0| That done, she asked again for the plenary indulgence, 937 Lette, 0| this as one an hungered for the Blood of Christ. So 938 Lette, 0| profound things which I, for my sins, was not worthy 939 Lette, 0| most humbly pardon of all for the slight care which she 940 Lette, 0| began to pray especially for the Catholic Church, for 941 Lette, 0| for the Catholic Church, for which she declared she was 942 Lette, 0| her life. She prayed again for Pope Urban VI., whom she 943 Lette, 0| hesitate to give their life for that truth. Then, with the 944 Lette, 0| prayer to the end of her life for which she had so longed, 945 Lette, 0| Prioress and all the sisters, for I have, at present, the