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662 CITY OF GOD
785. All this, my daughter, is true; but my kind and
clement love exceeds all this malice, detains justice and
still inclines the infinite Goodness toward men. The
Most High still wishes to give liberally of his infinite
treasures and resolves to favor those who know how to
intercession before God. This
gain my is the secure way
and the powerful means of advancing the Church, of im
proving the Catholic reigns, of spreading the faith, of
furthering the welfare of families and of states, of bring
ing the souls to grace and to the friendship of God. In
this work, my daughter, I have desired thee to labor
and assist according to thy power with the divine grace.
Thy labor shall consist not only in having written my
life, but in imitating it by following the counsels and
salutary teachings, which thou hast so abundantly re
ceived, both in what thou hast written and in other favors
and blessings of the Almighty. Consider well, my dear
est, thy strict obligation of serving me as thy only
Mother, as thy legitimate and true Teacher and Su
perior, who favors thee with all these and many other
condescensions. Thou hast likewise often renewed and
ratified the vows of thy profession into my hands, and
hast therein promised me especial obedience. Remem
ber the promises thou hast so often given to the Lord
and his angels. Many times We have manifested to thee
our will, that thou live and act as one of them, and that
thou, in carnal flesh, participate in the condition and
activity of an angel; that thy conversation and inter
course be with those purest spirits ;
and just as they con
verse with each other, and just as the higher enlighten
and illumine the lower, so they will enlighten and instruct
thee in the perfections of thy Beloved and in the exer
cise of all virtues, especially of the mistress of all of them,
charity, by which thou mayest be inflamed in the love of
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