Chapter 29: How our Lord authorised this work

After this work was finished, our Lord Jesus appeared to her who had completed it, holding it in His Hand ; and pressing it to His Heart, He said to her : " I have placed this book thus upon My Heart, that every word contained therein may be penetrated with Divine sweetness, even as honey penetrates bread. Therefore, whoever reads this book devoutly will receive great profit for his salvation." Then she besought our Lord to preserve this book from all error for His own glory, and He extended His adorable Hand, signing it with the sign of the Cross, saying : " I con secrate by My benediction all that is written in this book, that it may promote the salvation of those who read it with humble devotion." He added : " The labour of those who have written this book is also most agreeable to Me, par ticularly in three things : first, I taste therein the sweetness of My Divine love, by which all that is related therein has been effected ; second, I am exceedingly pleased with the good-will of those who wrote it ; third, I contemplate with singular pleasure My gratuitous mercy, which appears in all that is written in this book. I desire, therefore, that this work should be fructified by My most holy Life and My Five Wounds ; and the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost shall be the seven seals of Divine mercy with which it shall be sealed, so that none may be able to take it out of My Hand."

On another occasion, when the compiler * of this book communicated, she had it hidden in the sleeve of her habit, under her mantle, to offer it to our Lord for His eternal

'Compilatrix.' praise and glory. As she prostrated before receiving the Body of the Lord, one of the religious saw our Lord ap proaching her with great manifestations of joy and tender ness ; and He addressed her thus : " I will penetrate with My Divine sweetness and fertilise every word of this book which you have offered Me, and which you have written by the direction of My Spirit : and I will manifest to who ever reads this book with humble love what will be most useful for him, and will take him into My bosom, breath ing into his soul life and truth. But if any one reads it through vain curiosity, and a desire to pry into My secrets to censure and mock them, I will assuredly humble and cast him down shamefully."