Chapter 17: For ike Third Sunday of Lent

How we may obtain a share in the merits of the Life of Jesus Christ.

ON the Sunday Oculi, as the Saint desired, as usual, to conform her devotions to the Church's offices, she asked our Lord to teach her how she should occupy herself daring this week. He replied: if As in chanting your Office during this week you record how Joseph was sold by his brethren for twenty pieces of silver,t recite the Pater nosier thirty-three times, and thus purchase the merit of My most holy Life, which lasted for three-and thirty years, during which I laboured for the salvation of men ; and communicate the fruit of what you thus acquire to the whole Church, for the salvation of men and My eternal glory." As the Saint complied with this direction, she per- f The Lessons of the i. Nocturn for the Third Sunday in Lent are taken from the 37th chapter of Genesis, which details the history of Joseph sold into Egypt. In an Italian translation of 1606 it is " trenta dinari ; " and in the French, " trente deniers ; " two Latin editions have " xxx. denariis " also — probably a mistake of a tran scriber, which has been thoughtlessly perpetuated.

ceived in spirit that the whole Church was like a spouse adorned and embellished in a marvellous manner with the fruit of the perfect life of Jesus Christ.