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1566–1607 Italy
Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, OCarm (In Italian: Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi; born Caterina Lucrezia de' Pazzi; 2 April 1566 – 25 May 1607), was an Italian Carmelite nun and mystic. She has been declared a saint by the Catholic Church.
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Imagine that everything you do is the last act of your life, decisive in an eternity of good or an eternity of evil.
The cursed human respect is a hungry wolf, an enraged lion, who devours himself and swallows most good works.
The truth is indeed pure that if one were to admit a mixture of other things she would no longer be truth.
The vocation to religion is the greatest gratia that God can give to his elect after baptism.
When the priests live badly, the sun eclipses and the light turns to darkness, filling everything with disorder.
Dying to oneself and losing oneself in God is a sure commitment to eternity.
Religion purges, illuminates and perfects all internal and external man.
Or how much better it would be to stay in the century, than to damn oneself in religion.
Evangelical poverty not only commands one to leave, but to give as much as one has.
You must enter religion with the purest intention, and not be dragged into it by force or by fine and worldly interest.
Chastity is a rose, which blossoms only in closed gardens and among thorns.
And you must not go, but run; you must not run, but fly perfectly.
Religious poverty is little known and also less observed.
Religion is a traffic and a shop: you earn a hundred for one when you know how to handle its talent.
One must have envy of the land of Calvary wet, and soaked by the Blood of Jesus Christ.
The eyes of the religious person are closed and clenched to all things of the earth and open to those of heaven so as not to see that Jesus Christ.
Religion is an earthly paradise in which the soul unites with God more closely, participates more abundantly in the treasures of the Church, enjoys a very sweet peace that divinely embalms it and makes it become a small deity on earth.
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