Preliminary Remarks:

      “The happiness of the elect in Heaven is in direct ratio to the degree of knowledge each possesses of God. Each one is perfectly happy. But a single degree of knowledge of God, I should say, the smallest degree, is worth infinitely more than all the imaginable treasures of created worlds, since it is a participation in the secrets of the Infinite……All the suffering, the physical and moral tortures that might befall a human being during millions of years, would never attain by their combined merits the value of one of these degrees.”

—Blessed Dina Belanger, RJM

      “O Holy Trinity, eternal God, I thank You for allowing me to know the greatness and the various degrees of glory to which souls attain. Oh, what a great difference of depth in the knowledge of God there is between one degree and another! Oh, if people could only knew this! O my God, if I were thereby able to attain one more degree, I would gladly suffer all the torments of the martyrs put together. …At that moment, I knew the great majesty of God, and I understood that nothing could be compared with one single perception of God. Outward greatness dwindles like a speck of dust before one act of a deeper knowledge of God.

—Saint Faustina Kowalska

      "If you knew what it means to know more about my Will, to do one more act in It, to remain in It, to act in that known Will of mine where the creature is already established—the office, the beauty, the superiority of each creature—oh, how you would appreciate more the different levels of knowledge I have revealed to you about my Will! Just a little more knowledge about my Will elevates the soul to such a sublime height that the Angels themselves become astonished and enraptured, and they proclaim to Me incessantly: 'Holy, Holy, Holy.'

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†   FIAT!   †

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