Oh!
How precious is
the sepulcher of Jesus, a sepulcher visited by the devotion of so many!
And, Oh!
How precious is
your own sepulcher in which devoted souls attain their salvation.
O most blessed
cloister which removed you from vice and occasions of evil, and which holds
you enclosed in security and merit and in noble virtue.
Noble castle,
strong and efficacious, of the King of the Heavens!
16,36, 38
O most blessed
enclosure.
O soul hidden
from everything created!
There is her only repose!
O precious and
safe cloister!
To be enclosed
in
a continual remembrance of the precious wounds of Jesus Christ.
43, 44
With the angels, praise God!
Exalt Him here
below in all things for the
inestimable alms of the
creation of man....and for the sovereign gift of the
sacred Incarnation of
our God who is so good that, after having created all
things for us, became
Himself true man and our loving Brother so as to repair
everything amiss for us by His glorious Passion and death.
O infinite good!
O
measureless beauty!
O ingratitude
which forgets so great a good. 46,477
Take note, my beloved daughters, that you have been called by grace
to perfect obedience,
so as to obey in all things all the time so long
as there is no sin....
For it does not
suffice to obey sometimes and in certain things only, but until death and in all
things....and this after the example of our merciful
Redeemer who made Himself obedient for us right up to His death.
9
O holy poverty!
the clothing of our Redemption! precious jewel!! of the kingdom of heaven
which lasts forever.
O my dearly
loved sisters - love, love, love very perfectly this most excellent virtue,
loved by God and loathed by the world. 18, 20
We ought faithfully to safeguard what we have promised; and if we
commit some fault through human frailty, let us hasten to get up each time
we fall and cleanse ourselves and make reparation
by holy penance. And our sweet Father, during this life, receives us back
without delay in His sweet reconciliation.
51
Among all the
virtues, I commend holy obedience to you first of all,
for in it is found the
fullness of charity when one renders
obedience to a creature in all things for love of the Creator. Oh, may
we be able to die with Jesus on the Cross in this virtue and obtain life
eternal.
15, 16
My beloved
daughters, the truly obedient person ought to dread losing
out on obedience more than some physical dying,
after the example of our blessed
Savior Jesus Christ of whom St. Bernard used to say; “Remember, my brothers,
that Jesus Christ held it a dearer thing to lose His life in His
bitter passion than to lose
obedience to God His Father.”
12
After the renunciation of self in full obedience, our Savior
wills that we
carry the Cross every
day.
This is our vow
of holy poverty, the demanding
cross of desiring
nothing under heaven save Him alone who carried the cross
on His shoulders and
deigned by His love to die on that Cross.
17
Let happy
penance be done before the end of this present life, for this alone,
my
dearly loved daughters, can bring about full reconciliation with the
beloved Father of those for whom our merciful Redeemer lived in most
high obedience, poverty and virginity, Himself the only
Fountain of all virtues.
35
Live and die
truly poor, my well-beloved daughters, as did our
sweet Savior upon the
Cross for us.
And if,
nonetheless, few people
esteem poverty, that is
for you the occasion to love it the more.
26
This most
beloved entrance into the fertile field of Gospel perfection
is called complete
renouncement of the world, the flesh and of one's own will.
So the blessed Son of
the pure virgin sets forth that: Whoever wishes to
come after Me, let him
completely renounce his very self and carry his cross.
8
In the words of the Testament of our Mother St. Colette
"I beg you to bring it about that Jesus is loved."
St.
Colette of Corbie
Praise, praise
all the time, praise without end, and love the Father,
the Son and the Holy Spirit; and the most humble
virgin who bore
Jesus Christ, the holy and exalted soul of our
Redeemer and His
precious body which for us was hung upon the
Cross.
52