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feel more deeply that which we cannot express!

At other times, the Christ appeared to be alive. His head was erect, His eyes open, and He seemed
to be on the cross of His own accord. At times, too, He appeared to speak: He seemed to show that
He was on the cross for our sake, out of love for us, to draw us to His love, and that He always
has more love to give us, that His love in the beginning and in the year 33 is always that of
today and will be for ever more.

The Holy Virgin was crying nearly the whole time she was speaking to me. Her tears flowed gently,
one by one, down to her knees, then, like sparks of light, they disappeared. They were
glittering and full of love. I would have liked to comfort Her and stop Her tears. But it
seemed to me that She needed the tears to show better Her love forgotten by men. I would have
liked to throw myself into Her arms and say to Her:

 "My kind Mother, do not cry! I want to love
you for all men on earth." But she seemed to be
saying to me:

"There are so many who know me not!"

I was in between life and death, and on one
side, I saw so much desire by this Mother to be loved, and on another side, so much cold and in­
difference ... Oh! my Mother, most beautiful and lovable Mother, my love, heart of my heart!

The tears of our sweet Mother, far from lessening her air of majesty, of a Queen and a Mis­
tress, seemed, on the contrary, to embellish Her,