Chapter, Paragraph

501   3,     31  |               and hoped in My mercy, he would have found mercy,
502   3,     31  |          remind him of the sins that he has committed, for his conscience
503   3,     31  |      together with the virtues which he ought to have practiced.
504   3,     31  |           the virtue, and the better he knows his sin, the greater
505   3,     31  |              comparison with his sin he knows better the perfection
506   3,     31  |      perfection of virtue, wherefore he grieves the more, for he
507   3,     31  |             he grieves the more, for he sees that his own life was
508   3,     31  |           him this knowledge so that he may despair, but so that
509   3,     31  |             may despair, but so that he may come to a perfect self-knowledge
510   3,     31  |              that pain and knowledge he may pay for his sins, and
511   3,     31  |            knowledge of My love, for he attributes the grace of
512   3,     31  |            not to himself, wherefore he exalts in Me, with this
513   3,     31  |        torment than a pagan, because he had the light of faith and
514   3,     32  |              goodness! You alone are He who is Supremely Good, and
515   3,     32  |              and amorous Father, are He who will be thankful and
516   3,     32  |          lies, because You alone are He who is. And my being and
517   3,     32  |              thus I see that You are He who is the Supreme and Eternal
518   4,      1  |              in order to fulfill it, He hastened to the shameful
519   4,      1  |             his innocence, wherefore he fell into impurity and great
520   4,      1  |           great misery, and not only he, but the whole human race,
521   4,      1  |            can reach eternal life if he be not obedient, for the
522   4,      1  |             Word -- the Truth -- and He becoming the porter of that
523   4,      1  |           and that Porter. Wherefore He said in the Holy Gospel
524   4,      1  |         Father, if not by Him.' When He returned to Me, rising to
525   4,      1  |             of men at the Ascension, He left you this sweet key
526   4,      1  |           obedience; for as you know He left His vicar, the Christ,
527   4,      1  |             the Word? The love which He had for My honor and your
528   4,      1  |             the light of holy faith. He was faithful to Me, His
529   4,      1  |           draw their life from love, He possessed them all, but
530   4,      1  |             you do. Among the others he possessed patience, which
531   4,      1  |             abased Himself more than He did! He was sated with insults,
532   4,      1  |            Himself more than He did! He was sated with insults,
533   4,      1  |        insults, jibes, and mockings. He caused pain to Himself in
534   4,      1  |            who was more patient than He? for His cry was never heard
535   4,      1  |              heard in murmuring, but He patiently embraced His injuries
536   4,      1  |              perfectly accomplished. He left you this rule and this
537   4,      1  |         first observed them Himself. He is the way, wherefore He
538   4,      1  |             He is the way, wherefore He said, 'He was the Way, the
539   4,      1  |             way, wherefore He said, 'He was the Way, the Truth,
540   4,      1  |            Truth, and the Life.' For he who travels by that way,
541   4,      1  |           without perceiving it. For He has cast from Himself the
542   4,      1  |      darkness of self-love, by which he fell into disobedience;
543   4,      2  |      observing or transgressing all. He who observes this principal
544   4,      2  |             observes all the others; he is faithful to Me and his
545   4,      2  |             Me and his neighbor, for he loves Me and My creature,
546   4,      2  |             and with humble patience he endures every labor, and
547   4,      2  |         heaven by means of this key, he never will enter there,
548   4,      2  |           own body. So perfectly did He repair it that no matter
549   4,      2  |     free-will, assisted by My grace, he can repair it with the same
550   4,      2  |         hatred when injured, because he wishes to obey the precept
551   4,      2  |              precept of forgiveness, he suffers not when his appetites
552   4,      2  |          satisfy all his desires, if he strip himself of worldly
553   4,      2  |         would be too long to relate, he who has chosen as spouse
554   4,      3  |           and should hope as long as he has life, he should not
555   4,      3  |              as long as he has life, he should not put such trust
556   4,      5  |        temporal or spiritual, for if he is truly obedient, and observes
557   4,      5  |              and observes his order, he will be provided for by
558   4,      5  |          true and holy poverty, whom he had chosen for himself,
559   4,      5  |           the humble Lamb, with whom he was fastened and nailed
560   4,      5  |             the love of his soul, so he prepared the way. ~
561   4,      5  |             Dominic, My beloved son: he ordered it most perfectly,
562   4,      5  |              of science, which light he laid as his principal foundation,
563   4,      5  |             also. And as a sign that he had it truly, and that the
564   4,      5  |             contrary displeased him, he left as an heirloom to his
565   4,      5  |            community, as a sign that he had chosen for his spouse
566   4,      5  |        immediate and personal object he took the light of science
567   4,      5  | only-begotten Son, the Word. Rightly he appeared as an apostle in
568   4,      5  |           darkness and giving light. He was a light which I gave
569   4,      5  |         goodness. At what table does he feed his sons with the light
570   4,      5  |          they might do nothing else, he chose poverty for them,
571   4,      5  |             not be provided for, but he never. Being clothed in
572   4,      5  |         confidence in My providence, He wishes his sons to observe
573   4,      5  |     intellect, but also of the body, he does not wish them to obscure
574   4,      5  |          light of science; wherefore he imposed on them the third
575   4,      5  |        humility, and similarly, when he transgresses the vow of
576   4,      5  |               it rarely happens that he does not also transgress
577   4,      5  |             thought or deed; so that he has rigged his ship with
578   4,      5  |        continence, and true poverty; he made it a royal ship, not
579   4,      5  |    illuminated by Me the true light, he provided for those who should
580   4,      5  |              live well in this ship. He allied himself with My truth,
581   4,      5  |          with My truth, showing that he did not desire the death
582   4,      5  |              sinner, but rather that he should be converted and
583   4,      5  |       intellect at My Truth, whereby he acquired supernatural light
584   4,      5  |        science infused by grace, for he obtained it rather by means
585   4,      5  |          prayer than by human study. He was a brilliant light, illuminating
586   4,      5  |             took his life; yet while he lived he applied himself
587   4,      5  |             life; yet while he lived he applied himself to nothing
588   4,      5  |               to such an extent that he not only confessed it in
589   4,      5  |        moment of his death, for when he was at the last extremity,
590   4,      5  |             received his death-blow, he dipped his finger in his
591   4,      5  |       furnace of My charity, so that he never slackened his pace
592   4,      5  |         turned his head back, though he knew that he was to die,
593   4,      5  |            back, though he knew that he was to die, for I had revealed
594   4,      5  |               but like a true knight he fearlessly came forth on
595   4,      6  |              with the other, and how he should walk if he would
596   4,      6  |            and how he should walk if he would enter the ship of
597   4,      6  |          religious order. How should he walk who wishes to enter
598   4,      6  |              of holy faith, by which he will know that he must slay
599   4,      6  |              which he will know that he must slay his self-will
600   4,      6  |            the sister, patience; and he must also take the nurse
601   4,      6  |              dead to himself, should he who is old enough enter
602   4,      6  |         religious order, but however he may enter it (for I have
603   4,      6  |              souls in diverse ways), he should acquire and preserve
604   4,      6  |           the vow of continence, for he who does not constrain his
605   4,      6  |        weighed down by his own will; he also sees that he is obliged
606   4,      6  |              will; he also sees that he is obliged to pass by this
607   4,      6  |             and that in such a state he would die before he would
608   4,      6  |            state he would die before he would be able to pass it,
609   4,      6  |            it, for as I said to you, he is obliged to pass through
610   4,      6  |         Wherefore it is that whether he will or no he should not
611   4,      6  |           that whether he will or no he should not leave the ship
612   4,      6  |              enemy of self-love, for he does not wish that his spouse,
613   4,      6  |               should be offended; so he drives out the enemy and
614   4,      6  |             traditions of his order. He has also those other cruel
615   4,      6  |                            And since he knew by the light of faith
616   4,      6  |              spouse, holy obedience, he appointed hatred to drive
617   4,      6  |             with the knife of hatred he slew his perverse self-will,
618   4,      6  |        others are preserved in life, he remains free and in peace
619   4,      6  |     obedience give him pain? No, for he has trampled on his own
620   4,      6  |              with the light of faith he sees My will in him, believing
621   4,      6  |              subject's salvation. Is he disgusted and angry at having
622   4,      6  |             at little worth? No, for he has conceived love for self-
623   4,      6  |           and self-hatred. Wherefore he rejoices with patience,
624   4,      6  |            who truly fear Me, and if he should converse with those
625   4,      6  |             the brotherly love which he has in his heart towards
626   4,      6  |            in his heart towards them he would like to give them
627   4,      6  |             give them the good which he possesses, seeing that more
628   4,      6  |            doing so alone. Wherefore he endeavors to convert religious
629   4,      6  |              by every means by which he can draw them out of the
630   4,      6  |             his charity. Of his cell he makes a heaven, delighting
631   4,      6  |              crowding into his cell, he does not sit down on the
632   4,      6  |           opinions of his heart, but he flies sloth, rising above
633   4,      6  |         enduring the weariness which he feels in his mind, and resisting
634   4,      6  |              suffering in order that he may be more eager to fly
635   4,      6  |         mental prayer is impossible, he recites vocal prayers, or
636   4,      6  |               so that by these means he may avoid idleness. He looks
637   4,      6  |         means he may avoid idleness. He looks at Me with the light
638   4,      6  |             forth true humility, for he deems himself unworthy of
639   4,      6  |           rather worthy of pain, for he despises himself in his
640   4,      6  |         self-reproach, thinking that he can never endure enough
641   4,      6  |             and the key of obedience he passes over this stormy
642   4,      6  |           last to leave it, and when he sees a brother more obedient
643   4,      6  |           more obedient than himself he regards him in his eagerness
644   4,      6  |              him the virtue in which he excels, not wishing, however,
645   4,      6  |            have less thereof, for if he wished this he would be
646   4,      6  |       thereof, for if he wished this he would be separated from
647   4,      6  |             poor. And as a sign that he delights therein, and so
648   4,      6  |            reason to remain without, he has abandoned his temporal
649   4,      6  |              the vow of poverty that he blames himself for considering
650   4,      6  |         poverty, and not of clothes; he has no fear that thieves
651   4,      6  |            anything is given to him, he does not think of laying
652   4,      6  |      depriving himself today of what he needs, thinking only of
653   4,      6  |            kingdom of heaven and how he may best observe true obedience. ~
654   4,      6  |                    And in order that he may better keep to the path
655   4,      6  |             to the path of humility, he submits to small and great,
656   4,      6  |          pain and weariness of mind. He passes with this key in
657   4,      6  |            without violence, because he observes the vows of poverty,
658   4,      6  |          obedience through humility. He does not break his neck
659   4,      6  |           friends of obedience. Thus he passes by the assaults of
660   4,      6  |        greater, for calling a child, He said: 'Allow the little
661   4,      6  |           the kingdom of heaven. For he who humbles himself, dearest
662   4,      6  |       daughter, will be exalted, and he who exalts himself will
663   4,      7  |              Son, in the gospel when He replied to Peter's demand, '
664   4,      8  |            others, that in this life he tastes the earnest of hell,
665   4,      8  |          tastes the earnest of hell, he remains always in sadness
666   4,      8  |            in disobedience, to which he has made himself a slave,
667   4,      8  |           slave, for of disobedience he has made his mistress with
668   4,      8  |            state than suffering, for he is deprived of charity,
669   4,      8  |              is deprived of charity, he is obliged by force to incline
670   4,      8  |              commands obedience, and he loves disobedience; the
671   4,      8  |      commands voluntary poverty, and he avoids it, possessing and
672   4,      8  |           continence and purity, and he desires lewdness. By transgressing
673   4,      8  |              on things of the world. He left the world in body,
674   4,      8  |     obedience seems wearisome to him he wishes to disobey in order
675   4,      8  |             avoid weariness; whereby he arrives at the greatest
676   4,      8  |       greatest weariness of all, for he is obliged to obey either
677   4,      8  |          without it. Oh! how deluded he is, and no one else deceives
678   4,      8  |            Wishing to please himself he only gives himself displeasure,
679   4,      8  |   displeasure, for the actions which he will have to do, through
680   4,      8  |              him, do not please him. He wishes to enjoy delights
681   4,      8  |           proves it to him; for when he is in a nice pleasant resting
682   4,      8  |        pleasant resting place, where he would like to remain for
683   4,      8  |           the pleasures and delights he finds there, he is transferred
684   4,      8  |             delights he finds there, he is transferred elsewhere,
685   4,      8  |       against his obedience, and yet he is obliged to endure the
686   4,      8  |         torment. See, therefore, how he deludes himself; for, wishing
687   4,      8  |            for, wishing to fly pain, he on the contrary falls into
688   4,      8  |        removed pain from it, so that he walks by the road of lies,
689   4,      8  |              of lies, believing that he will find delight there,
690   4,      8  |            in body, and not in mind; he has quitted it in desire,
691   4,      8  |             nor the three vows which he promised to observe at the
692   4,      8  |              time of his profession; he swims in the tempestuous
693   4,      8  |          lower than an animal's, and he does not see that he labors
694   4,      8  |             and he does not see that he labors more swimming with
695   4,      8  |       religious in the ship, or that he is in danger of eternal
696   4,      8  |              at the moment of death, he will have no remedy. No,
697   4,      8  |             will have no remedy. No, he does not see, for he has
698   4,      8  |             No, he does not see, for he has darkened his light with
699   4,      8  |         seeing his misery, wherefore he miserably deceives himself.
700   4,      8  |              planted in pride, which he has drawn from self-love.
701   4,      8  |             a ribald secular; and if he have to preach My doctrine,
702   4,      8  |          have to preach My doctrine, he does so in polished terms,
703   4,      8  |              various thoughts, which he voluntarily welcomes with
704   4,      8  |             the secret of his heart, he wishes to examine and judge
705   4,      8  |              stench of impurity, for he takes delight in many foul
706   4,      8  |           superior when you see that he denies you something which
707   4,      8  |      smallest word and reproof which he may make to you, but in
708   4,      8  |             the refectory, wherefore he avoids it; he is always
709   4,      8  |              wherefore he avoids it; he is always the last to enter
710   4,      8  |              leave it; with his lips he approaches Me, with his
711   4,      8  |        approaches Me, with his heart he is far from Me. He gladly
712   4,      8  |             heart he is far from Me. He gladly escapes from the
713   4,      8  |          from the chapter-house when he can through fear of penance.
714   4,      8  |        through fear of penance. When he is obliged to be there,
715   4,      8  |              is obliged to be there, he is covered with shame and
716   4,      8  |       confusion for the faults which he felt it no shame to commit.
717   4,      8  |         cause of this? Disobedience. He does not watch in prayer,
718   4,      8  |            prayer, and not only does he omit mental prayer, but
719   4,      8  |           the Divine office to which he is obliged. He has no fraternal
720   4,      8  |              to which he is obliged. He has no fraternal charity,
721   4,      8  |           fraternal charity, because he loves no one but himself,
722   4,      8  |           the fruits of sorrow which he produces, that your tongue
723   4,      8  |           torments to endure, and if he do not amend before his
724   4,      9  |            not according to the work he does, or the length of time
725   4,      9  |             length of time for which he works, that is to say, that
726   4,      9  |          works, that is to say, that he who comes early will not
727   4,      9  |              will not have more than he who comes late, as My Truth
728   4,      9  |           the vineyard to labor; for he gave as much to those who
729   4,      9  |          wherefore I say to you that he rather obeys the intention
730   4,      9  |             intention than the word. He also obeys the word, having
731   4,      9  |           write the letter o, though he had not space to finish
732   4,      9  |       inquiring about possibilities, he fulfilled his obedience
733   4,      9  |              the soul, in order that he might not be tossed about
734   4,      9  |            save a drowning disciple; he did not think of himself,
735   4,      9  |          walked upon the water as if he had been on dry land, and
736   4,      9  |           source of merit to him. If he eats, obedience is his food;
737   4,      9  |            obedience is his food; if he sleeps, his dreams are obedience;
738   4,      9  |             dreams are obedience; if he walks, if he remains still,
739   4,      9  |           obedience; if he walks, if he remains still, if he fasts,
740   4,      9  |              if he remains still, if he fasts, if he watches --
741   4,      9  |       remains still, if he fasts, if he watches -- everything that
742   4,      9  |           watches -- everything that he does is obedience; if he
743   4,      9  |             he does is obedience; if he serve his neighbor, it is
744   4,      9  |       neighbor, it is obedience that he serves. How is he guided
745   4,      9  |     obedience that he serves. How is he guided in the choir, in
746   4,      9  |              faith, with which light he has slain and cast from
747   4,      9  |              guided by his superior, he has navigated the tempestuous
748   4,      9  |         taken all darkness from him; he remains strong and firm,
749   4,      9  |    sinfulness, and knowing that I am He who is, thus eating and
750   4,      9  |            So I, the Sea Pacific, am He who alone can comprehend
751 Lette,      0|            the particular task which he was to perform after her
752 Lette,      0|          which our Savior used, when He recommended the disciples
753 Lette,      0|          crowds of people, and lucky he thought himself who was