Chapter 61OrdV.1.61
Anima illa
Swallowed by Burning Sweetness
The soul cries out in compunction, confessing that a burning sweetness has overwhelmed it in its sins and kept it from entering.
Ah! Ah! A burning sweetness has swallowed me up in my sins, and so I haven't dared to enter.
Read the original Latin
Ach! ach! fervens dulcedo absorbuit me in peccatis, et ideo non ausa sum intrare.
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