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Revelations of St. Bridget
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After the abovesaid friar had received from Lady Bridget the last revelation above,
he asked her to pray to God concerning the matter of Christ's private property, and
also concerning the authority of the supreme pontiff and of the celebrating priests.
As the lady was praying, the Virgin Mary appeared to her and answered all these
points as follows.
"Say to my friend the friar that it is not licit for you to know whether the soul
of Pope John XXII is in hell or in heaven. Nor indeed is it licit for you to know
anything about the sins that the same pope took with him when, after his death, he
came before God's judgment. But tell the same friar that those decretals that the
same Pope John made or established concerning Christ's private property contain
no error in the Catholic faith nor any heresy.
I, indeed, who gave birth to the true God himself, bear witness to the fact that
the same Jesus Christ, my Son, had one personal possession and that he alone
possessed it. This was that tunic that I made with my own hands. And the prophet
witnesses to this fact, saying in the person of my Son: 'Over my garment, they cast
lots.' Behold and be attentive to the fact that he did not say 'our garment' but 'my
garment.'
Know too that, as often as I dressed him in that tunic for the use of his most
holy body, my eyes then filled at once with tears and my whole heart was wrung
with trouble and grief and was afflicted with intense bitterness. For I well knew the
manner in which that tunic would in future be separated from my Son, namely, at
the time of his passion when, naked and innocent, he would be crucified by the
Jews. And this tunic was that garment over which his crucifiers cast lots. No one
had that same tunic while he lived, but only he alone.
Know too that all those who say that the pope is not the true pope and that the
priests are not true priests or rightly ordained and that what is consecrated by the
priests in the celebration of Masses is not the true Body of my blessed Son, yes, all
those who assert such errors are puffed up with the spirit of the devil in hell.
For truly these same heretics have committed such serious acts of malice and
frightful sins against God that, because of their very great demerits, they are
damnably filled with diabolic wickedness, and, through their heresy, they are cut
off and cast out from the number of the whole flock of Christianity in the just
judgment of the divine majesty, just as Judas was shut out and cut off from the
sacred number of the apostles because of his wicked demerits: for he betrayed
Christ my Son. Know that, even so, all those who want to amend their lives will
obtain mercy from God."
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Revelations and Prophesies Imparted to St. Bridget of Sweden Book Seven: Chapter Eight
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