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I tried to compassionate Him as much as I could, and with
all my heart I said to Him: “O! Holy Spouse, hold back the
scourges that Your Justice keeps prepared. If the multiplicity
of the iniquities of men is great, there is the Immense Sea
of Your Blood in which You can bury them; and so Your
Justice will be satisfied. If You have nowhere to go to delight
Yourself, come into me I give You all my heart, that You
may somehow rest and delight with it. It is true that I too am
a bilge of vices, but You can purify me and make of me what
You want. But, O please! placate Yourself. If the sacrifice of
my life is necessary O! how gladly I would make it for You,
as long as I may see Your own images spared.”
And the Lord, interrupting my speaking, continued
telling me: “Here is exactly where I wanted you if you offer
yourself to suffer, no longer every now and then as up until
now, but continuously, every day, for a certain given time, I
will spare men. See how I will do it: I will put you between
My Justice and the iniquities of the creatures, and when My
Justice sees Itself filled with iniquities to the point of not being
able to contain them, and is forced to send the thunderbolts of
the scourges in order to chastise the creatures, in finding you
in the middle, instead of striking them, you are the one who
will remain struck. Only in this way will I be able to content
you in sparing men not otherwise.”
I remained all confused; I didn’t know what to tell Him.
My nature did its part, being frightened and trembling, but I
saw that my Good Jesus was waiting for an answer whether
I accepted or not. So, seeing myself almost forced to speak,
I said to Him: “O! My Most Divine Spouse, on my part I
would be ready to accept, but how is it going to work out
with the confessor: if he does not want to come every once
in a while, how can it be possible that he will come every
day? Free me from this Cross that the confessor be needed
in order to free me and then everything will be arranged
between me and You.”
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