Chapter 29: For Easter Tuesday. Of the renewal of spiritual espousals

AT Communion on Easter Tuesday, St. Gertrude asked our Lord to renew the espousals which He had formed with her in spirit by faith, by religious profession, and by the entirety of her virginity. Our Lord replied caressingly, that He would not fail to do what she asked : and inclining towards her, He embraced her soul, renewing therein all her devotion. And as He thus embraced her, He gave her a brilliant necklace, adorned with precious stones, and thus reformed all her past negligences in her spiritual exercises.