Opera nuper in lucem prodeuntia

ON the feast of Saint John the Evangelist, when the first bells for matins were ringing, it seemed to her that the boy Jesus, as a youth of ten years, was waking the sisters with great joy. Saint John also was seen by her in the dormitory standing before the bed of a certain person who loved him greatly. An angel, truly magnificent and most venerable, who was of the Seraphim, preceded John with a light in humble service, with an innumerable multitude of angels accompanying him, who were all present in the service of John and led him into the choir with lights. Those, however, who rose joyfully out of love had much greater glory than the others who did this out of fear. That principal angel, however, provided this service to John because he loved God with seraphic love on earth. She understood also that the angel still administers love to the hearts of all who love John, out of reverence for the special love with which Christ loved him; and that the Spirit of God still excites men to love him. During matins, however, Saint John, circling the choir, placed a chalice to the mouth of each, gathering in it the devotion and intention of those chanting, which he joyfully offered to Christ. To her, however, thinking and desiring to know what merit John had for this, because he had written the Gospel concerning the divinity of Christ more loftily than the others, she heard this response from God: "In all senses, he
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