Verba Matris et Filii benediccionis et laudis adinuicem et de gracia a Filio Matri concessa pro in purgatorio existentibus et in isto mundo manentibus.
A Dialogue of Divine Praise
Mary and her Son exchange beautiful, contemplative praises regarding the nature of the Divine.
Mary spoke to her Son, saying: "Blessed be your name, my Son, forever, along with your divinity, which has no beginning and no end!" In your divinity there are three wonders: power, wisdom, and virtue. Your power is like a blazing fire; before its face, everything that is firm and strong is considered like straw dried in the flames. Your wisdom is like a sea that cannot be drained because of its vastness; it even rises and overflows, covering both valleys and mountains. Your wisdom is like this: it can't be grasped or fully searched out. How wisely you created man and set him over all your creation! How wisely you arranged the birds in the air, the beasts on the earth, and the fish in the sea, and gave each its own time and order! How wonderfully you give life to all, and how wonderfully you take it away! How wisely you give wisdom to the foolish, and how wisely you take it from the proud! Your power is like the light of the sun, shining in the heavens and filling the earth with its radiance. In this way, your power satisfies both the heights and the depths, and fills all things. Therefore, may you be blessed, my Son, for you are my God and my Lord!
The Radiance of the Mother
The Son honors Mary's unique role in the Incarnation and her status as a fountain of mercy.
The Son replied: "Dearest Mother, your words are sweet to me, because they come from your soul." You are like the dawn rising in serenity. You have shone above all the heavens; your light and your serenity have surpassed all the angels. Through your serenity, you have drawn the true sun—my divinity—to yourself so completely that it has fixed itself within you. By its heat, you have been warmed with my love more than all others, and by its splendor, you have been illuminated with my wisdom more than anyone else. The darkness of the earth has been driven away, and all the heavens have been illuminated through you. In my truth, I say that your purity—which pleased me more than all the angels—drew my divinity into you so that you might be inflamed by the heat of the Spirit, through which you enclosed the true God and man in your womb, and through whom humanity has been enlightened and the angels have been made joyful. Therefore, may you be blessed by your blessed Son! Because of this, no request you make to me will go unheard, and through you, all who seek mercy with a desire to amend their lives will receive grace. For just as heat comes from the sun, so all mercy will be given through you. For you are like a fountain flowing with abundance, from which mercy flows to the miserable." The Mother answered her Son again: "All power and glory be to You, my Son!" You are my God and my mercy. Every good thing I have comes from You. You are like a seed that wasn't sown, yet it grew and yielded a hundredfold and a thousandfold harvest from within itself. For all mercy flows from you; and because this mercy is beyond counting and beyond words, it's well represented by the number one hundred, in which perfection is noted, since all that is perfect and perfection itself come from you. The Son answered his mother: "Truly, Mother, you have rightly compared me to a seed that wasn't sown and yet grew; for I came into you with my divinity, and my humanity wasn't sown through any commingling, yet it grew within you—and from it, mercy has flowed out to everyone." You have spoken well. Now, therefore, because you draw mercy from me through the sweetest words of your mouth, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be given to you."
Mercy for the Suffering and the Living
Mary intercedes for those in purgatory and those living in the world, and the Son grants her requests.
The Mother replied: "My Son, because I have received mercy from You, I therefore ask for mercy and help for those who are miserable." There are, in fact, four places. The first is heaven, where the angels and the souls of the saints lack nothing except You, whom they already possess. For in You they have every good thing. The second place is hell, and those who dwell there are filled with malice and cut off from all mercy. Because of this, nothing good can ever enter into them again. The third place is for those who are being purified. They need a threefold mercy, because they are afflicted in three ways. They are troubled by what they hear, for they hear nothing but the sorrows of their punishment and misery. They are troubled by what they see, because they see nothing but their own misery. They are afflicted by the touch of it, because they feel the heat of an intolerable fire and a heavy punishment. Grant them, my Lord and my Son, your mercy because of my prayers! The Son answered: "Willingly, for your sake, I will grant them a threefold mercy." First, their hearing will be relieved, their sight will be soothed, and their punishment will be lighter and milder. Furthermore, from this hour on, whoever is in the greatest pain of purgatory will move to the middle state. And those who are in the middle state will move into the lightest pain. But those who are in the lightest pain will pass on to rest. The Mother replied, "Praise and honor be to You, my Lord!" And the Mother immediately added to the Son, "The fourth place is the world, and its inhabitants are in need of three things: first, compunction for their sins; second, satisfaction; and third, fortitude to do good." The Son replied: "Everyone who calls upon your name and places their hope in you, with the intention of amending their past faults, will be given these three things, and on top of that, the kingdom of heaven." Your words are so sweet to me that I cannot refuse what you ask, because you want nothing other than what I want." Finally, you are like a burning, shining light that relights extinguished lamps and strengthens those that aren't yet burning. But through your love, which rises into my heart and has drawn me to you, those who are dead in their sins will come back to life, and the lukewarm—like black smoke—will be strengthened in my love.
Read the original Latin
Maria loquebatur ad filium dicens: "Benedictum sit nomen tuum, fili mi, sine fine cum deitate tua, que est sine principio et sine fine! In deitate tua sunt tria mirabilia, scilicet potencia, sapiencia et virtus.
Potencia tua est quasi ignis ardentissimus, ante cuius faciem omne, quodcumque est firmum et forte, tamquam stramen desiccatum in igne reputatur.
Sapiencia tua est quasi mare, quod pre magnitudine hauriri non potest, quod eciam, cum excrescit et effluit, valles et montes operit.
Sic sapiencia tua comprehendi et inuestigari non potest. Quam sapienter creasti hominem et constituisti eum super omnem creaturam tuam! Quam sapienter disposuisti aues in aere, bestias in terra, pisces in mari, et unicuique dedisti tempus suum et ordinem!
Quam mirabiliter das omnibus vitam et aufers! Quam sapienter insipientibus das sapienciam et aufers a superbis!
Virtus tua est quasi lumen solis, quod lucet in celis et terram sua luce replet. Sic virtus tua supera et infera saciat et omnia replet. Ideo sis tu benedictus, fili mi, qui es Deus meus et Dominus meus!"
Respondit filius: "Carissima mater mea, verba tua dulcia sunt michi, quia de anima tua procedunt. Tu es quasi aurora procedens cum serenitate.
Tu radiasti super omnes celos; lux tua et serenitas tua excessit omnes angelos. Tu attraxisti ad te serenitate tua solem verum, idest deitatem meam, in tantum, quod sol deitatis mee veniens in te fixit se in te, ex cuius calore calefacta es super omnes caritate mea, ex cuius splendore illuminata es plus omnibus sapiencia mea.
Tenebre terre fugate sunt et omnes celi illustrati sunt per te.
In veritate mea dico, quod puritas tua, que michi super omnes angelos placuit, traxit deitatem meam in te, ut ex calore Spiritus inflammareris, quo Deum verum et hominem in utero tuo conclusisti, quo homo illuminatus est et angeli letificati sunt.
Ideo benedicta sis tu a benedicto filio tuo! Propterea et nulla erit peticio tua ad me, que non exaudiatur, et per te omnes, qui petunt misericordiam cum voluntate emendandi, graciam habebunt. Quia sicut calor procedit a sole, sic per te omnis misericordia dabitur. Tu enim es quasi fons largifluus, de quo misericordia miseris fluit."
Respondit mater iterum filio: "Omnis virtus et gloria sit tibi, fili mi! Tu es Deus meus et misericordia. A te est omne bonum, quod habeo.
Tu es quasi semen, quod non est seminatum et tamen creuit et dedit ex se fructum centesimum et millesimum. De te enim procedit omnis misericordia, que, quia innumerabilis et indicibilis est, bene significari potest in centenario numero, in quo notatur perfeccio, quia a te est omnis perfectus et perfeccio."
Respondit matri filius: "Vere, mater, bene similasti me semini, quod non seminabatur et tamen creuit, quia cum deitate veni in te et humanitas mea non ex commixtione seminabatur et tamen creuit in te, ex qua omnibus profluxit misericordia. Ideo bene dixisti. Nunc ergo, quia per dulcissima verba oris tui trahis misericordiam a me, pete quodcumque vis, et dabitur tibi."
Respondit mater: "Fili mi, quia misericordiam ego a te consecuta sum, ideo misericordiam et auxilium peto miseris. Quatuor quippe sunt loca. Primus est celum, in quo angeli et sanctorum anime nullo indigent nisi te, quem habent. In te enim habent omne bonum.
Secundus locus est infernus, et habitantes in eo impleti sunt malicia et exclusi ab omni misericordia. Ideo nichil ad eos potest amplius intrare de bono.
Tercius locus est purgandorum. Ipsi enim indigent triplici misericordia, quia tripliciter affliguntur. Turbantur quippe auditu, quia nichil aliud audiunt nisi dolores pene et miserie.
Affliguntur visu, quia nichil vident nisi miseriam suam.
Affliguntur tactu, quia senciunt calorem ignis intolerabilis et grauis pene. Da eis, Domine mi et fili mi, misericordiam tuam propter preces meas!"
Respondit filius: "Libenter propter te dabo eis triplicem misericordiam. Primo auditus eorum alleuiabitur, visus mitigabitur, pena remissior et micior erit.
Insuper, quicumque ab ista hora sunt in summa pena purgatorii, venient ad mediam. Et qui sunt in media, venient in leuissimam penam. Qui autem sunt in leuissima pena, transibunt ad requiem."
Respondit mater: "Laus et honor sit tibi, Domine mi!" Et statim mater subiunxit ad filium: "Quartus locus est mundus et habitatores eius indigent tribus: primo contricione pro peccatis, secundo satisfaccione, tercio fortitudine ad faciendum bona."
Respondit filius: "Omnis, quicumque inuocauerit nomen tuum et spem habet in te cum proposito emendandi commissa, ista tria dabuntur ei, insuper et regnum celeste. Tanta enim est michi dulcedo in verbis tuis, ut non possim negare, que petis, quia nichil aliud vis, nisi quod ego.
Tu denique es quasi flamma lucens et ardens, qua luminaria extincta accenduntur et inaccensa conualescunt. Sed ex caritate tua, que ascendit in cor meum et attraxit me ad te, reuiuiscent, qui in peccatis sunt mortui, et tepidi, quasi fumus nigri, in caritate mea conualescent."
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