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attending to the consolation and necessities of all and
of each one in particular. She exhorted and animated the
Apostles and the ministers of the divine word, fixing
their attention upon the prodigious manifestation of the
divine power, by which her most holy Son began to plant
the faith of his Church; the virtue which the Holy Ghost
had communicated to them in order to make them fit
ministers; the ever present assistance of the divine right
hand. She exhorted them to acknowledge and praise Him
as the author of all these wonderful works and to render
Him humble thanks for all of them ;
to follow up in secure
confidence their preaching and exhortation, the exaltation
of the name of the Lord, in order that He might be
known, extolled and loved by
herself practiced what She taught and inculcated, by
prostrating and humiliating Herself before the Most
High and by breaking forth in canticles of praise and
exaltation. These duties She fulfilled with such pleni
tude, that for none of the converted did She ever omit
all the faithful. She
giving thanks and offering fervent prayers to the eternal
Father; all of them remained distinctly present in her
mind.
90. Not only did She do all these things for each one
of them; but She received all, listened to all, and enendeared
Herself to them with words of light and life.
During those days following upon the coming of the
Holy Ghost many conversed with Her in private, open
ing up their inmost souls, and the same happened also
with those who were converted afterwards in Jerusalem.
Not that She was ignorant of their secrets ;
for She knew
the hearts of all, their affections, inclinations and condi
tions, enabling her by this divine knowledge and wisdom
to accommodate Herself to the necessities and natural
character and to render salutary assistance against the
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