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those of the Incarnation, adding many others, which
they had already been taught by the Master ;
at the same time that they would be enlightened by the
telling them
Holy Ghost for a deeper understanding of all these
things.
49. She taught them how to pray mentally, insisting
on the excellence and necessity of that kind of prayer;
how the principal duty and the most noble occupation
of the rational creature was to raise itself, by the under
standing and the will, above all that is created to the
knowledge and love of God; and that no other object or
occupation should ever be preferred or should ever inter
rupt this duty, so as not to deprive the soul of this su
preme benefit, the beginning of eternal life and happi
ness. She taught them also how to thank the eternal
Father for having given us his only Son for our Re
deemer and Master, and for the love with which the Lord
redeemed us at the cost of his Passion and Death. She
exhorted them to give thanks to God for having singled
them out as his Apostles, as his companions and as the
founders of his holy Church. Such were the exhorta
tions and teachings, with which the heavenly Mother at
that time enlightened the hearts of the eleven Apostles
and the other disciples and by which She prepared and
disposed them for the reception of the Holy Ghost and
his divine effects. As She saw into the inmost recesses
of their hearts and knew the natural condition and char
acter of each one, She accommodated Herself to the ne
cessities, the bent of mind and the graces of each in order
to fill them with joy, consolation and constancy in the
practice of virtue. She exhorted them to persevere in
humble prostrations and other actions of worship and
reverence in adoring the greatness and majesty of the
Most High.
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