From the The Revelations of St. Birgitta of Sweden. The Lord said: “I am the Lord of all things. My household is the world. All of humanity should rightfully be my servants. However, I, the Lord, am now despised in the world while humanity is honoured. You, therefore, whom I have chosen, take care to…
Now therefore saith the Lord: Be converted to me with all your heart, in fasting, and in weeping, and in mourning. Joel 2:12 And the men of Ninive believed in God: and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least. Jonas 3:5 And when he was come into the…
And he said: Let the earth bring forth the green herb, and such as may seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, which may have seed in itself upon the earth. And it was so done. And the earth brought forth grass, herb producing seed after its kind, and trees yielding fruit,…
For the salvation of souls
Images commanded by God in Holy Scripture Thou shalt make also two cherubims of beaten gold, on the two sides of the oracle. Exodus: 15:18 Two cherubims also of beaten gold, which he set on the two sides of the propitiatory: One cherub in the top of one side, and the other cherub in the…
Man’s free will often resists the grace of God… . Because I called, and you refused: I stretched out my hand, and there was none that regarded. Proverbs 1:24 What is there that I ought to do more to my vineyard, that I have not done to it? was it that I looked that it…
The sinners in Sion are afraid, trembling hath seized upon the hypocrites. Which of you can dwell with devouring fire? which of you shall dwell with everlasting burnings? Isaiah 33:14 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor and gather his wheat into the barn; but the chaff he will…
“Bridget by no means denies that God is merciful, on the contrary, she points it out again and again. But – and it is a great but – He is merciful only to those who repent. With Bridget there is no such thing as ‘sinning in relying on grace’ – each and every one gets…
