titude makes any disorder, nor does their high position give rise to pride, nor does difference of standing cause confusion, nor inequality envy; because the glory of heaven is enough for all and fully satisfies all: each one has as much as he can have and wishes to have. “God will be all in all,”[1] says St. Augustine. And because each one of the blessed possesses God entirely, each one has everything in God without any want. O most delightful acquaintanceship and society! O most agreeable conversation! Behold there the holy apostles Peter and Paul, the princes and chiefs of the Church! See St. Joseph, the foster-father of Our Lord! O ye holy martyrs and invincible warriors of Christ! show me your glorious wounds. St. Ambrose, tell me of the labor and trouble you had to overcome the Arian heretics and to refute their errors! St. Francis Xavier, tell me of the long and wearisome journeys you made by land and sea to convert so many thousand Indians! And if I wish to see saints from foreign lands, there is a number of Indians, Japanese, Chinese, Africans, Americans, who are all now fellow-citizens and happy inhabitants of the heavenly city Jerusalem. And what joy! O most beautiful and pleasing countenance of Mary! I shall behold and contemplate thee for all eternity! Most loving heart of Mary, I shall praise, love, and bless thee without end! O Mary! I shall thank thee, as I am bound to do, a thousand thousand times! I am here, I shall say; to my great joy, I am here at last. O great Queen of heaven! my Advocate, my dearest Mother! it is for many years now that I have been constantly receiving thy benefits and blessings in abundance, and that I have heard and spoken to others of the power given thee, of the unspeakable graces bestowed on thee above all mere creatures; but now I am with thee myself; I see thee with my own eyes, and am always in thy presence like a child with its mother. Oh, what joy and happiness! But still more than all I find here Thy sacred humanity, Jesus Christ, my Saviour! During my life I have often honored Thee in pictures and images; many thousand times I have reverently kissed Thy sacred wounds; I have often received Thee, God and Man, in the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar. But away with the dark veil of faith! Away with the appearance of bread and wine! O beautiful, bright wounds of Christ! I behold you now with my own eyes. O exceedingly comely countenance of my Saviour! never shall I cease to behold and
- ↑ Erit Deus omnia in omnibus.
