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opportunities, in and for which they were established with
the assistance of the Holy Ghost. For He gives us our
spiritual nourishment in proper time for the glory of the
Lord and the increase of the holy Church. As I have
spoken of this matter in the course of this history, espe
cially in the second part, I need not repeat it here. From
her full knowledge and her corresponding holiness, there
arose within the heavenly Instructress a certain thankful
eagerness, to introduce into the Church militant the wor
ship, veneration and festivities observed by the holy
angels in the triumphant Jerusalem, and thus imitate, as
far as was possible, what She had so often seen done in
heaven for the praise and glory of the Most High.
613. In this more than seraphic spirit She commenced
to practice by Herself many of the ceremonies, rites and
exercises, which were afterwards introduced in the
Church ;
and these She also inculcated and impressed up
on the Apostles, in order that they might introduce them
as far as the circumstances then allowed. She not only
invented the exercises of the Passion, of which I have
spoken above, but many other customs and ceremonies,
which were later on received in the churches, in the con
gregations and religions. For whatever She knew as
pertaining to the worship of the Lord or the practice of
virtue, She performed, and in her wisdom She was igno
rant of nothing that ought to be known. Among these
exercises and rites was the celebration of the feasts of
the Lord and of Herself, in order to renew the memory
of the benefits for which She stood indebted, as well the
benefits relating in general to the human race, as those
especially referring to Herself, striving thus to give
thanks and adoration for all.
Although She had spent her
whole life in this pursuit without relaxation or forgetfulness,
yet, when She entered upon this new mysterious
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