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always conducted Herself as a disciple anxious to listen
and learn. But saint Peter and saint John, perceiving
the diversity of opinion among the rest, besought the
heavenly Mother to show them the right way in their
doubts and to declare what should be most pleasing to
her divine Son.
106. She obeyed and speaking to the whole gathering,
She said masters and :
"My brethren, I was in the school
of our true Teacher, my divine Son, from the time when
He was conceived in my womb, until He died and as
cended into heaven; I have never seen Him touch or
handle money, nor accept a gift of much value or price.
When, shortly after his birth, He accepted the presents
offered to Him by the Kings
at their adoration (Matth.
2, 11), it was because of the mysterious signification
connected with them and in order that He might not
frustrate the pious intentions of those Kings, who were
the first-fruits among the heathens. But without delay,
while resting on my arms, He ordered me immediately
to distribute them among the poor and the temple, as I
also did. Many times during his life He told me, that
one of the high purposes of his coming into the world
was to raise up poverty and to teach it to mortals, who
stand in horror of it. In his conversations, his teachings
and his most holy life He manifested to me, and made
me understand, that the holiness and perfection, which
He had come to teach, was to be founded on the most
perfect voluntary poverty and the contempt of riches.
The more earnestly these were cultivated in the Church,
so much greater would be her sanctity in the course of
the ages; and this will be evident in the coming times."
107. "Since we are to follow the footsteps of our true
Master and practice his teachings, in order that we may
found his Church by imitating his it
example
is neces-
;
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