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everything, suffer everything hoping in Jesus, who forms
the object of all my hopes.”

Hope renders the soul almost Omnipotent, Invincible, and
it administers to her the Final Perseverance, so much so, that
only then does she cease to Hope and to Persevere, when she

has taken possession of the Kingdom of Heaven. Then, she
lays down Hope and plunges all of herself into the immense

Ocean of Divine Love.

While my soul would get lost in the Immense Sea of Hope,
my beloved Jesus would come back and speak about Charity,

telling me: “Faith and Hope give way to Charity, and Charity
connects the whole of the other two together, in such a way as
to make them one, while they are three. And here It is, O My

spouse, veiled in the Three Theological Virtues, the Trinity
of the Divine Persons.”

Then He continued: “If Faith makes one believe, and

Hope makes one hope, Charity makes one love. If Faith is
light and serves as the sight of the soul, and Hope, which is
the nourishment of Faith, provides the souls with Courage,

Peace, Perseverance and all the rest Charity, which is the
substance of this light and of this nourishment, is like that most
sweet and fragrant ointment which, penetrating everywhere,
relieves and soothes the pains of life. Charity renders suffering

sweet, and makes one reach the point of even desiring it. The
soul who possesses Charity diffuses fragrance everywhere;

her works, all done out of love, give off a most pleasant odour.

And what is this odour? It is the odour of God Himself. The
other Virtues render the soul solitary and almost unrefined

with creatures; Charity, on the other hand, being substance
that unites, unites the hearts. But where? In God. Being
a most fragrant ointment, Charity spreads everywhere and

with everyone. Charity makes one suffer the most ruthless
torments with joy, and one reaches the point of not being able
to be without suffering. And when she sees herself without

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