205 part i: sunday meditations for the entire year O Lord! From now on, may I be able to understand Your teaching immediately. What is more, may it be that after suffering so many losses I would, albeit late, remember Your words, and I would be converted to You along with David in the time of Your visitation: so that I would come to my senses along with so many other holy sinners; so that I would not remain with Judas, would not persevere in my obstinacy, foolishness, and blindness, and would not be condemned for that reason. 3. “they told all this” (Lk 24:9). Reflect that those devout women told the apostles everything they had seen at the tomb, partly because they were ordered to do so by the angel and partly because they feared being deceived by the evil spirit under the guise of an angel. And you, either because of fear or because of an excessive self-confidence, will you doubt whether you should reveal your conscience to another? If you are afraid, you are foolish; if you have excessive self-confidence and presume that you are very experienced in spiritual matters, be on your guard lest you fall down! For even Christ the Lord did not guide Himself, but had the Spirit by whom He was led and by whom He fulfilled the will of His eternal Father most exactly. Notice how many benefits you receive by revealing your conscience; and how many losses you suffer by concealing it. Are you not constantly tormented by whatever you concealed? And yet, do you not enjoy the fullest peace and the greatest delight whenever you reveal it? Therefore, learn from the holy women, spoken of today, to reveal all your interior matters to those with whom you ought to do so, and to be obedient to their advice.
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