If you would know by what means I continue so blithe and
healthy in my old age, it is because on rising I immediately take up the
Holy Scriptures (10) and read therein, and so perceive and contemplate
the goodness of God, who sent His Son into the world to proclaim to us
the Sacred Word and glad tidings by which He promises the remission of
all sins and the satisfaction of all debts by the gift that He has made
us of His love, passion, and merits.
10 Margaret read a portion of the Scriptures every day,
saying that the perusal preserved one "from all sorts of
evils and diabolical temptations" (_Histoire de Foix, Bearn,
et Navarre_, by P. Olhagaray, Paris, 1609, p. 502).--L.
"The thought of this gives me such joy that I take my Psalter and in all
humility sing with my heart and utter with my lips the sweet psalms and
canticles which the Holy Spirit put into the heart of David and of other
writers. And so acceptable is the contentment that this brings to
me, that any evils which may befall me during the day I look upon as
blessings, seeing that I have in my heart, through faith, Him who has
borne them all for me.
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