Christus reprehendit onerantes se multis vestibus propter frigus et superbientes de pulchris vestibus sicut pauo de pennis dicens, quod, si plene confiderent in eo, ipse daret eis pulchritudinem et calorem in corpore et anima.
The Warmth of Divine Trust
The bride experiences miraculous warmth in the bitter cold while waiting in prayer.
When the bride arrived by boat at an island in the middle of the bitter cold in the kingdom of Sweden, and everyone was already asleep, she stayed in the boat until daybreak, not wanting to disturb anyone. While the servants were suffering intensely from the cold, she felt such warmth that those who saw or touched her were amazed. The Lord spoke to her as she was praying near dawn:
The Vanity of Earthly Adornment
Christ rebukes those who rely on excessive clothing and vanity rather than trusting in His grace.
How little people trust in me when they weigh themselves down with clothes, like a hedgehog with apples or a peacock with its feathers! They take such pride in beautiful clothes, yet they couldn't even keep warm without me, nor do they appear beautiful except through my gifts. But if they would only place their hope in me, I would give them warmth of body and soul, and I would make them beautiful in the sight of my saints. But now they are deformed, because they aren't content with what is necessary, and they love created things more fervently than the Creator.
Read the original Latin
Cum sponsa in mediis frigoribus in regno Suecie venisset ad quandam insulam nauigando et iam omnes dormirent, nolens inquietare aliquos permansit ad diem in naui.
Cumque famuli vltra modum paterentur de frigore, ipsa tantum calorem senciebat, quod tangentes eam et videntes mirarentur. Cui oranti circa auroram dixit Dominus:
"O quam multum diffidunt homines de me, qui onerant se vestibus sicut erinacius pomis et sicut pauo pennis! Sic superbiunt ipsi de pulchris vestibus, cum tamen nec calefieri possent sine me, nec pulchri videntur nisi de meis.
Si autem ipsi ponerent spem suam in me, ego darem eis calorem corporis et anime et facerem eos pulchros in conspectu sanctorum meorum.
Nunc autem deformes sunt, quia non contentantur de necessariis et feruencius diligunt creata quam creatorem."
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