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We did not harvest the wheat in the seventh month of the year and our vineyards were destroyed by the storm. 59). First she imagined Christ standing before her with a closed book in his hand; she could look at the cover but not at the inside until she has first studied the books of the humanity of Jesus and of her own conscience. She was born to noble parents in the French Beaujolais region.

Therefore let us follow holy Marguerite in this gaze fixed on Jesus. In the dynamism of mystical life, Marguerite valued the experience of natural affections, purified by grace, as a privileged means to understand more profoundly and to second divine action with greater alacrity and ardour. She lived a life rich in mystical experiences described with simplicity, allowing one to intuit the ineffable mystery of God, stressing the limits of the mind to apprehend it and the inadequacy of human language to express it.

81). giving birth to me, for a day or a night, but you, most gentle Lord, were tormented for me not only for one night or one day, but for more than 30 years!... And when the moment of delivery arrived, your work was so painful that your holy sweat became as drops of blood which ran down your whole body to the ground" (ibid., Meditazione I, 33, p.

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83). In the second, the book opens and reveals a vision of Paradise and the heavens, whence all goodness emanates. I have found what I so much desired: not to love anything other than you or in you or for love of you" (ibid., Meditazione p. ibid., II, 14-22; III, 23-40, pp. In one of her meditations she prays thus: "Most gentle Lord, when I think of the special graces that you have given me through your solicitude: first of all, how you took care of me since my childhood and how you removed me from the danger of this world and called me to dedicate myself to your holy service, and how you provided everything that was necessary for me: food, drink, dress and footwear (and you did so) in such a way that I had no occasion to think of these things but of your great mercy" (Marguerite d'Oingt, Scritti Spirituali, Meditazione V, 100, Cinisello Balsamo, 1997, p.

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    But all these pains...

    Of the things she saw in this book I will tell you only little, for I have neither the understanding that could conceive it, nor the mouth that could tell it. And, when she had looked at it well, she began to read the book of her own conscience, which showed the falsehoods and lies of her own life (cf. “In this book she found written the life that Jesus Christ led on earth, from his birth to his ascension into Heaven” (ibid., I, 12, p.

    ibid., II, 14-22; III, 23-40,
    pp. From her writings, however, we do not deduce particular stages in her spiritual itinerary. This body was so noble that one could see oneself reflected in it, more clearly than in a mirror.