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THE CORONATION 177
to understand my just decrees concerning
those two
souls, for whom thou prayest, and concerning others,
who are to enter my Church. These two, who have
apostatized from my true faith, might do more harm than
good among the other faithful, if they continue their in
tercourse with them ;
for they have very depraved habits
and have become still more hardened in their evil inclina
tions. Hence in my infinite knowledge I
foresee that they
will be reprobates and that it will be better to separate
them from the flock of the faithful and cut them off
from the mystical body of the Church. Thus they shall
be prevented from infecting others by their contagion.
It has already become necessary, my beloved One, that, in
conformity with my most high Providence, both the pre
destined and of the foreknown should join my Church :
some, who by their sins shall incur damnation, and others,
who, through my grace, are to save themselves by good
works.
are to be as the
My teachings and my Gospel
net, which gathers in all kinds of fish, good and bad, the
wise and the foolish, and the enemy
is to sow his cockle
among the pure grain of truth (Matth. 13, 28), in order
that the just may justify themselves so much the more,
and the impure, if so they choose in their malice, may de
file themselves still more."
173. This was the answer given by the Lord to this
prayer of the most holy Mary. At the same time He re
newed within Her the participation in his knowledge, in
order that She, perceiving the equity of the Most High
in condemning those unworthy of his friendship and
glory, might dilate her afflicted heart. But as the heaven
ly Mother alone held the measure of the sanctuary in her
most eminent wisdom, knowledge and charity, She alone
also, among all creatures, estimated and pondered fully
what it meant to lose God eternally and to be condemned
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