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The Lord, however, calling the soul to Him, placed His hands upon the hands of the soul, granting her the labor and exercise of all the works He perfected in His most holy humanity. Then He applied His most kind eyes to the eyes of the soul, giving her the exercise of His most holy eyes and the copious shedding of tears. Then, adapting His ears to the ears of the soul, He gave her the exercise of all His ears. After this, pressing His rose-colored mouth to the mouth of the soul, He handed over to her the exercise of praise and thanksgiving, of prayer and preaching, as a supplement for her negligence. Finally, He united His mellifluous heart to the heart of the soul, bestowing upon her all the exercise of meditation, devotion, and love, and enriched her abundantly with all goods. And thus, the soul being entirely incorporated into the Lord Jesus and liquefied by divine love, just as wax is impressed by a seal, she displayed the likeness of Him, so that blessed soul was made entirely one with her Beloved.
Concerning the Gospel, "He was sent," and concerning the Blessed Virgin.
When the Gospel "The angel was sent" Luke 1:26, referring to the Annunciation was read, she saw the archangel Gabriel, the tutor of the Blessed Virgin, coming into Nazareth, holding a royal banner inscribed with golden letters. Following him was an innumerable multitude of angels, who all arranged themselves around the house in which the glorious Virgin was, like a wall from the earth up to the heaven; namely, so that inside the angels were the archangels, inside whom were the virtues, then the other orders of angels, in such a way that each order surrounded that house like a wall. After