Chapter XX. How, without enduring tribulations with patience, it is impossible to please God; and how God comforts her and her spiritual father to endure with true patience.

Then God, replying to her third petition (namely, the prayer of her hunger for the salvation of the spiritual father of her soul), said:

“Daughter, this is what I wish him to seek, namely, to please Me, the Truth, in the hunger which he has for the salvation of souls with all solicitude. But this he could not have, neither he, nor thou, nor any one else, without many troubles, as I said to thee above, according to the measure in which I give them you. Wherefore, if thou desire to see My honour, in the Holy Church, thou oughtest so to love as to wish to endure with true patience; and, by this, I shall see that he and thou and My other servants seek My honour in truth. Then he will become My dearest son, and will repose himself and others upon the breast of My only-begotten Son, whom I have made the Bridge by which you may all arrive at your end, and receive the fruit of all your labours which you have endured for the love of Me. Bear yourselves then manfully.”