grief. Nevertheless, I so tempered my grief and joy, that I never omitted aught of God’s services. And I so dwelt among men, as not to expect nor take even aught of what is pleasing to man, except scanty food. That my Assumption was not known to many, nor proclaimed by many, God, who is my Son, so willed, that faith in his own Ascension should be first implanted in men’s hearts, because the hearts of men were hard and loth to believe his Ascension; how much more would they have been so, had my Assumption been proclaimed in the very beginning of the faith. — Lib. vi., c. 61.
Some years after the Ascension of my Son, I was one day much afflicted with a longing to rejoin my Son; then I beheld a radiant angel, such as I had before seen, who said to me: “Thy Son, who is our Lord and God, sent me to announce to thee, that the time is at hand, when thou shalt come bodily to him, to receive the crown prepared for thee.” “Dost thou,” I replied, “know the day or hour when I shall leave the world?” The angel answered: “The friends of thy Son will come and inter thy body.” Saying this, the angel disappeared, and I prepared for my departure, going, as was my wont, to all the
