(Y)ou have received the gift of intelligence, the gift of wealth and the gift of compassion and charity from the Holy Trinity. Yet while you are incessantly distracted by secular cases and are occupied by continual trials, you fail to read each day the words of our Redeemer. But what is Holy Scripture other than a letter of almighty God to his creation? And certainly if your Glory has been established anywere else, and you were accepting a letter from an earthly emporer, you would not cease, you would not rest, you would not allow any sleep for your eyes, unless you had first acknowledged what your earthly emperor had written to you. The Emperir of Heaven, the Lord of men and angels, sends his own letters to you for the sake of your life, and yet, glorious son, you fail to read those same letters with passion.
Study, I beg you, and each day meditate n the words of your Creator. Learn the heart of God inthe words of God, so that you long more ardently for eternity, so that your mind is inflamed with greater desires for the joys of Heaven.
For your rest will be all the greater then, as now you have no rest from love of your Creator. But for this to be done, may almighty God pour on you his Spirit, the Comforter. May He fill your mind with his presence, and by filling it, may he give you relief.
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