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reluctant to strike, willing to the last to forgive.
He even sent down His own Son to their wicked
world to teach men mildness and love and to
pray for them: you know what they did to
Him. Hurling defiance against Heaven they
soon set their whole world ablaze with the flames
of Hell. With Satanic cunning they forged
themselves new weapons to murder each other.
They harnessed death to swoop down upon
their dwellings from the very sky, they polluted
the life giving air with the vapours of Hell.
The thunderous roar of their battles shakes their
whole earth. When the firmament is wrapped
in night we up here can see the very light of
their star shining red as if stained with blood
and we can hear the moaning of their wounded.
One of the angels who surround the throne of
God has told me that the eyes of the Madonna
are red with tears every morning and that the
wound in the side of Her Son has opened again.”
“But God himself who is the God of mercy,
how can He suffer these torments to go on?”
I asked. “How can He listen impassive to these
cries of anguish?”
The aged archangel looked around uneasily
lest his answer might be overheard.
“God is old and weary,” he whispered as if
awestruck by the sound of his own words, “and
His heart is grieved. Those who surround Him
and watch over Him with their infinite love, have
not the heart to disturb His rest with these never
ending tidings of horror and woe. Often He
wakes up from His haunted slumber and asks
what causes the roar of thunder that reaches His
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