The mutual words of blessing and praise of the Mother and the Son, and about the grace conceded by the Son to his Mother for the souls in purgatory and those remaining in this world.
Chapter 50

Mary spoke to her Son saying: "Blessed be your name, my Son, without end and blessed be your divine nature that is with out beginning and without end! In your divine nature there are three marvelous attributes of power, wisdom, and virtue. Your power is like the hottest fire in the face of which anything solid and strong is to be reckoned as dry straw in a fire. Your wisdom is like the sea that can never be emptied by reason of its vastness and which covers valleys and mountains when it rises up and flows over. It is equally impossible to comprehend and fathom your wisdom. How wisely you created humankind and established them over all your creation!

How wisely you arranged the birds in the air, the beasts on the earth, the fishes in the sea, giving to each its own time and order! How wondrously you give life to all things and take it away! How wisely you give wisdom to the foolish and take it away from the proud! Your virtue is like the sunlight that shines in the sky and fills the earth with its light. Your virtue likewise satisfies high and low and fills all things. So, may you be blessed, my Son, who are my God and my Lord!" The Son answered:

"My dear Mother, your words are sweet to me, for they come from your soul. You are like the dawn that advances with serene weather. You outshine the heavens; your light and your serenity surpass all the angels. By your serenity you attracted to yourself the true sun, that is, my divine nature, so much so that the sun of my divinity came to you and settled on you. By its warmth you were warmed in my love beyond all others and by its splendor you were enlightened in my wisdom more than all others. The darkness of the earth was driven away and all the heavens were lit up through you. Upon my truth I say that your purity, more pleasing to me than all the angels, drew my divinity to you so that you were set on fire by the warmth of the Spirit.

In it you bore the true God and man hidden in your womb whereby mankind has been enlightened and the angels filled with joy. So, may you be blessed by your blessed Son! And therefore, no petition of yours will ever come to me with out being heard. Any who ask for mercy through you and have the intention of mending their ways will win grace. As heat comes from the sun, so too all mercy will be given through you. You are like a free-flowing spring from which mercy flows to the wretched." In turn the Mother answered the Son: "All power and glory be yours, my Son! You are my God and mercy. Every good that I have comes from you. You are like a seed never sown that still grew and yielded fruit a hundredfold and a thousandfold. All mercy comes from you and, being countless and ineffable, it can indeed be symbolized by the number one hundred, which symbolizes perfection, for everyone is perfected by you and perfection comes from you."

The Son answered the Mother: "Mother, you compared me quite rightly to a seed that was never sown but still grew, since in my divine nature I came to you, and my human nature was not sown by intercourse but still grew in you, and mercy flowed out from you to all people. You have spoken rightly. Now, then, since you draw mercy out of me by the sweet words of your lips, ask me what you will, and it shall be given to you." The Mother answered: "My Son, since I have won mercy from you, then I ask you to have mercy on the wretched and help them. After all, there are four places.

The first is heaven, where the angels and the souls of the saints need nothing but you whom they have, for they possess every good in you. The second place is hell, and those who live there are filled with evil and are excluded from every mercy. Thus, nothing good can enter into them any more. The third is the place of those being purged. These need a triple mercy, since they are triply afflicted. They suffer in their hearing, for they hear nothing other than sorrow, pain, and misery. They are afflicted in their sight, for they see nothing but their own misery. They are afflicted in their touch, for they feel only the heat of unbearable fire and of grievous suffering. Grant them your mercy, my Lord and my Son, for the sake of my prayers!" The Son answered:

"I will gladly grant them a triple mercy for your sake. First, their hearing will get relief, their sight will be eased, their punishment will be reduced and mitigated. Moreover, from this hour those who find themselves in the greatest punishment of purgatory shall advance to the middle stage. And those who are in the middle stage shall advance to the lightest punishment. Those who find themselves in the lightest punishment shall cross over into rest." The Mother answered: "Praise and honor to you, my Lord!"

And she immediately added: "The fourth place is the world. Its inhabitants need three things: first, contrition for their sins; second, reparation; third, the power to do good." The Son answered: "To everyone who invokes my name and has hope in you along with the purpose of amendment for his sins, these three things shall be given as well as the kingdom of heaven. Your words are so sweet to me that I cannot refuse the things you ask, since you want nothing other than what I want. You are like a shining, burning flame by which extinguished torches are re-enkindled, and once enkindled grow in strength. By means of your love, which rose up to my heart and drew me to you, those who are dead through sin will revive and those who are tepid and dark like smoke will grow strong in my love."

 
     

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