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pendent and undisturbed, enjoying the abstractive vision
of the Divinity without interruption, either awake or
asleep, working* or at rest, without need of forethought
or reasoning about what was most perfect, or more agree
able to the Lord, about the necessities of the Church, or
the time and manner coming to its aid. All this was
present to her mind in the vision of the Divinity, just like
to the blessed through the beatific vision. And just as
the least important of the knowledge of the blessed is
that concerning the creatures; so also (besides what our
great Queen knew concerning the state of the Church,
its
government and of all the souls), the principal object
of her knowledge were the incomprehensible mysteries
of the Divinity, which She comprehended more deeply
than the highest seraphim and saints. With this heavenly
bread and nourishment She was sustained in that soli
tude prepared for Her by the Lord. In it She was
solicitous
for the Church without being disturbed, busily
employed without inquietude, attentive without distrac
tion, and in all things She was full of God within and
without, clothed with the purest gold of the Divinity,
immersed and absorbed in this incomprehensible sea. Yet
at the same time She was attentive to all her children and
their welfare, finding no rest except in the ministrations
of her maternal charity.
546. This was the reason why the two wings of an
eagle were given to Her; for by them She raised Herself
to the solitude where the thoughts of neither angels or
men could ever soar; and by them She descended from
that unattainable height and flew to the aid of mortals,
not haltingly, but with the lightest and swiftest flight.
prodigy of the omnipotence of God ! O unheard of
miracle, which so clearly manifests his infinite great
ness ! Our understanding fails us, our comprehension
is
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