of wonders. I did not grasp it, but the Blessed Virgin made me understand it. “That is the whole secret,” She said. The secret is in the renewal of this complete abandonment into Her hands, with total faith. The greater our faith in the Blessed Virgin, and the more this absolute confidence exists in our soul, then the more effects will we experience. All the rest results from that. Perhaps it seems unlikely, but this is the great secret of Mary. In the Mystical City of God, the Blessed Virgin goes on to say, “They should seek My most kind and powerful intercession and fear the judgments of the Most High; for in this lies the efficacious means of salvation and of meriting higher reward (that is, our sanctification). I wish to remind you once more that among the divine secrets which My most holy Son revealed at the Last Supper to John, His beloved and Mine, was also this: he had become the beloved disciple of Christ on account of his love toward Me, and Judas fell because he despised the mercy and kindness which I had shown him.”7 THE GREAT SECRET 11 ————— 7. The Mystical City of God, Vol. III, Bk. 2. chap. 5, no. 386.
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