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Chapter XLVII Of the perfect manner of obedience that he taught Themost holy father would say unto his brethren: “My best-beloved

Complete three-work composite: CCEL Fioretti; Salter 1904 Life and Miracles; Evans 1899 / Goretti 2025 Mirror
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Chapter XLVII Of the perfect manner of obedience that he taught Themost holy father would say unto his brethren: “My best-beloved
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brethren, fulfil my injunction at the first word, and wait not for
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what is said unto you to be repeated. Argue not, nor be ye judges of the injunction, for nought is there impossible therein, seeing that, even if it were that I should command you aught beyond your strength, yet holy obedience will never be lacking in strength.”

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Chapter XLVI That even until his death he was fain to have one of his companions as warden, and to live in subjection Beingminded to persevere even to the death in perfect humility and Chapter XLVIII How he spoke of the perfectly obedient under the similitude of a dead body Ona time this was what he sighed forth before his companions: “Scarce