Opera nuper in lucem prodeuntia

thily, let him take me as an associate; that is, let him do all things in the union of that love with which God took human nature into Himself. And thus, whatever he does will be most pleasing to God."

Concerning the four pulses of the heart of Christ.
AND while the mass (Lux fulgebit The light shall shine) was being sung, she was illuminated with an ineffable cognition. She understood also how the Son of God was that light, and how He had illuminated the whole world and every man in His luminous nativity. She recognized also how the fullness of all divinity dwelt in that little infant. And how the omnipotent power of God contained that little body, lest it be entirely dissipated. Also, how the inscrutable Wisdom of God lay hidden in Him: because He was of such great wisdom while lying in the manger as He is now reigning in heaven. And how the sweetness and love of the Holy Spirit were totally infused into that little infant: so that the soul who would feel this would be ineffable and beyond the capacity of human sense. Then she, taking the boy, pressed Him to her heart with embraces so that she heard and felt the beating of His heart. And He had at the same time, in one impulse, three strong pulses, and after this, one light pulse. Upon which, while the soul wondered, the infant said to her: "The pulses of my heart were not like those of other men, but I always had such pulses from infancy until death. Whence it happened that I died so quickly on the cross. The first pulse proceeded from the omnipotent love of my heart, which was so prevailing in me that I conquered all the adversities of the world and the cruelty of the Jews with a sweet heart and patience. The second came from the wise love with which I