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144 CITY OF GOD
out a doubt (according to what was made known to me)
was greater than to be in the company of the saints. O
extraordinary, singular and exalted privilege! Thou by
Thyself wert more pleasing to the Creator than the high
heavens He had made for his habitation (Ps. 113, 16).
He who cannot be contained in those illimitable
spaces,
measured and enclosed Himself in Thee alone, and found
a pleasant throne and resting-place, not only in thy vir
ginal womb, but in the immensity of thy capacious love.
Thou alone wast a heaven from the first of thy existence,
so that God lived in Thee after He gave Thee being and
shall rest in Thee in fullest delight through all the ages of
his eternity. Let all
the nations know Thee; for in Thee
they know and praise their true God and Redeemer, since
through Thee alone He has visited us and repaired our
unfortunate fall (Luke 1, 68).
131. Who of mortals, or even of the angels, can de
scribe the conflagration of love burning in the purest
heart of this great Queen so full of wisdom? Who can
comprehend the impetus of the river of the Divinity,
which inundated and absorbed this City of God? (Ps.
44, 5). What aspirations and acts of virtue did She not
enter into while exercising the measureless gifts of grace
showered upon Her! What prayers and petitions did
She not send forth for the holy Church ! What entrancements
of love for us did not overwhelm Her! What gifts
did She not merit and obtain for us !
Only the Author of
this prodigy could know them. But let us on our part
raise our hopes, enliven our faith, and incite our love in
union with this kind Mother; let us solicit her interces
sion and assistance, since He, who is her Son and our
to Her whom He has so
Brother, will deny nothing
singled out for his love, as I have described, and will de
scribe further on.
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