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conference; for She understood only in general, that
their fury was directed against Her in an especial man
ner. Divine Providence concealed from Her some of
their designs, in order that the triumph She would gain
over hell might afterwards be so much the more glorious.
Nor was it
necessary to prepare Her for temptations
and persecutions, as was conceded to other faithful,
whom She so excelled in high and magnanimous spirit,
and of whose trials and tribulations She had a clearer
knowledge. According to her wont in all affairs, she
resorted to prayer, consulting about them with God in
pursuance of the example and teaching of the Lord. For
this purpose She retired and, prostrating Herself in ad
mirable reverence and fervor upon the ground, thus be
sought Him :
310. "Most
high Lord and eternal God, holy and in
comprehensible, behold here prostrate before Thee thy
humble handmaid and vile wormlet of the earth, suppli
cating Thee, eternal Father, through thy onlybegotten
Son and my Lord Jesus Christ. Do not despise my peti
tions and sighs, which from my inmost soul I present to
thy immense charity in union with that which, derived
from the furnace of thy own love, Thou hast communi
cated to thy slave. In the name of all thy holy Church, of
thy Apostles and thy faithful servants, I present to Thee,
O Lord, the sacrifice of the passion and death of thy
Onlybegotten; that of his sacramental body, the most
acceptable petitions and prayers He offered to Thee dur
ing the time of his mortal and passible life, the love
with which He assumed flesh for the Redemption of the
there and his rear
world in my womb, his imprisonment
ing at my breast all this I offer in order to be
;
permitted
to ask Thee for that which Thou seest in the desire of
my heart."
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