Opera nuper in lucem prodeuntia

and rough in this world: which Christ the blessed, with His mother, was the first to show, and handed down to men as an example of true religion. The soul, however, as it seemed to her, was sitting beside the Blessed Virgin, desiring with great longing to kiss the lovable little infant. The virginal mother, after she had handed him over to the soul to be embraced, the soul, receiving the boy with ineffable love, pressed him to her heart with these words which she had never before thought of, greeting the boy.

¶ Prayer. "Hail, most sweet marrow of the heart, most blessed wisdom and refreshment of the languishing soul, I offer to you the marrow of my heart and soul in eternal praise and glory." And she understood, divinely inspired, how the Son is the marrow of the paternal heart. And just as marrow is restorative, healing, and most sweet, so is God through His Son, who is His virtue and sweet savior and most potent and sweet consoler. The marrow of the soul, however, is that most sweet thing which the soul deserves to feel from God alone through the infusion of love: to which all the sweetness that a man could experience would not be comparable. From the face of the boy, four rays shone, which filled the four parts of the world: through which was figured the most holy conversation of Christ and His doctrine, which illuminated the entire world.

Also concerning the Nativity, from the same.
Item, when the mass (The Lord said to me, You are my Son; today I have begotten you) was being sung in memory and