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THE CORONATION 631
O my daughter! How greatly do mortals misunder
stand this truth, and how far they err from it in their
actions! The Lord gives them life in order that they
may free themselves from the effects of original sin, so
as to be unhampered by them at the hour of their death ;
and the ignorant and miserable children of Adam spend
all their life in loading upon themselves new burdens and
fetters, so that they die captives of their passions and in
the tyranny of their hellish foes. I had no share in orig
inal sin and none of its effects had any power over my
faculties; nevertheless I lived in the greatest constraint,
in poverty and detached from earthly things, most per
fect and holy; and this holy freedom I did indeed ex
perience at the hour of my death. Consider then, my
daughter, and be mindful of this living example; free
thy heart more and more each day, so that with advanc
ing years thou mayest find thyself more free, more de
tached and averted from visible things, and so that when
the Spouse shall call thee to his nuptials, thou wilt not
need to seek in vain the required freedom and prudence.
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