Verba Matris ad filiam, qualiter mores boni et opera iusticie per postes in amicis Dei designantur; et quomodo serui Dei debent carere a detraccione.
The Doorposts of the Soul
The friends of God are called to be like welcoming doorposts, characterized by justice and edifying conduct.
The Mother speaks: "The friends of God are said to be like two doorposts, through which others are to enter." Therefore, you must be diligent to ensure that nothing harsh or hard blocks those who are entering or causes them to be crushed. And what do these doorposts signify, if not well-ordered conduct, works of justice, and edifying words, which ought to be evident every day in the friends of God?
Guarding the Tongue and Conduct
God's friends must avoid disparaging speech and worldly behavior to ensure they do not repel those seeking the path of faith.
Therefore, be very careful that nothing harsh—that is, any disparaging or vulgar talk—is found in the mouths of God’s friends, and that no worldly behavior is noticed in their actions, because of which those who want to enter might turn away and find the very idea of entering repulsive.
Read the original Latin
Mater loquitur: "Amici Dei dicuntur esse quasi duo postes, per quos ingressuri sunt alii. Ideo cauendum est diligenter, ne quid asperum vel durum obsistat ingredientibus, aut unde comprimantur.
Quid autem significant postes nisi mores compositos operaque iusticie et verba edificatoria, que apparere debent cottidie in amicis Dei?
Ideo caueatur attente, ne quid durum, id est verbum detractorium vel scurrile inueniatur in ore amicorum Dei, aut in operibus eorum aliqua mundialia notentur, propter que ingredi volentes refugiant et ingredi abhominentur."
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