"for whoever wants to save his life will lose it,
but whoever loses his life for me will save it" luke 9:24
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content book 3
Advice to a Bishop about Temperance in His Daily Life.
On the Pitfalls of the Narrow, Thorny,
and Rocky Path That the Bishop Must Tread.
On the Bishop's Miter; on His Reputation As a Bouquet of Flowers.
Parable about a Prudent Canon Who Is Ridiculed
by His Slack Bishop;
the Humiliation of the Bishop after His Death.
A Helmsman Tosses His People in a Storm; on Birgitta's Calling.
An Allegory about an Adulterous Husband Who Spends
Nine Out of Every Ten Hours with His Housemaid
Rather Than His Wife.
The Same Bishop Is Like a Bellows and a Snail;
He Is Compared to St. Ambrose.
Mary Is Like a Nut; She Can Discern Wisdom;
Birgitta Must Ask a Scholar Three Questions.
Even for Those with Impaired Senses,
Disasters and Avalanches Still Occur.
The Church Is Near to Collapse;
Mary Is Like a Rainbow;
the Addendum Describes Papal Nuncios.
John the Baptist Describes a Bishop
Who Is Like a Monkey;
the Addendum Describes a Cardinal Legate.
Blessed Agnes Discusses a Bishop at a Crossroads;
Another Bishop Is Mentioned.
On a Treasure Locked Up in a Fortified Castle,
Which a Bishop Should Attempt to Penetrate.
Mary Compares a Bishop to a Butterfly.
Mary Continues about Another Bishop
Who Is Likened to a Gadfly,
and Condemns Both Men.
The Same Two Bishops Enter into Dialogue;
One Is Condemned at the End.
The Virgin Praises Saint Dominic and His Rule.
Contemporary Dominican Friars
Have Relaxed the Precepts of Their Rule.
Reassurance for Birgitta on Why the Above Dominican Bishop
Was Called but Not Chosen.
How St. Benedict Was Filled with the Holy Spirit in Creating His Rule.
More on St. Benedict, with the Images of Three Fires and Three Sparks.
About a Benedictine Abbot Who Is Attracted to Harlots.
A Deliberation on the Day's Epistle about the Trinity.
Allegory of a Maiden and Her Nine Brothers
and the Love of the King's Sons for the Maiden.
Mary Speaks of the World's Neglect of Her Little Son.
On the Mystery of the Trinity.
On the State of the City of Rome
Using a Grammatical Analogy;
A Vision of Some Gardens on Earth.
The Virgin Describes Four Cities
Where Four Types of Love Are to Be Found.
Mary Is Like the Temple of Salomon.
Blessed Agnes Encourages Birgitta in Her Studies.
On a Doctor, a King, and Two Imprisoned Men.
Mary Is Like a Magnet.
About Two Men, One Like a Square-set Stone,
the Other Like a Pilgrim to Jerusalem.
About a Ring That Is Too Tight, and an Unclean Filter for a Drink.