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The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich
4.3 JOY AT MARY'S BIRTH IN HEAVEN.
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In the moment when the newborn child lay in the arms of her holy mother
Anna, I saw that at the same time the child was presented in heaven in
the sight of the Most Holy Trinity, and greeted with unspeakable joy by
all the heavenly host. Then I understood, that there was made known to
her in a supernatural manner her whole future with all her joys and
sorrows. Mary was taught infinite mysteries, and yet was and remained a
child. This knowledge of hers we cannot understand, because our
knowledge grows on the tree of good and evil. She knew everything in
the same way as a child knows its mother's breast and that it is to
drink from it. As the vision faded in which I saw the child Mary being
thus taught in heaven through grace, I heard her weep for the first
time.
I often see pictures like this, but for me they are inexpressible and
probably for most people not quite comprehensible; therefore I do not
relate them.
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