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 would not accept it! Therefore, depart for ever from my friendship, from my protection, from my kingdom, from my paradise, from my clear sight, and from the copious river of my delights." And since whosoever is separated from Christ is also separated from those who go with Christ, in saying to them " Depart from me" He says likewise, " Depart from the hierarchies and choirs of my angels, depart from my apostles, martyrs, confessors and virgins, and depart from the sweet company of my holy Mother, who would also have been yours, but you would not have her! I did sufficient to draw you to my service and to my house, but you, through your perverse will, separated yourselves and made yourselves strangers. Therefore, in punishment of this, I, by my just will, do banish and separate you from me and all mine, without hope ever to have any part in me, or aught whatsoever that is mine."

Colloquy. — O my Saviour, let not such a punishment fall upon me, to separate me from Thee for ever! Chastise me with what punishment Thou wilt, so that, united with Thee in love, I may always be near Thee! Amen.

ii. "You cursed. — The second word is "You cursed," with which, being very effectual, He pours upon them all the eternal maledictions and miseries that they have deserved by their sins. Cursed shall their soul be, and cursed their body; cursed their powers, and cursed their senses. There shall light upon them the malediction of hunger and thirst, of sickness and sorrow, of infamy and dishonour. Cursed in the "city" 11 where they shall live, in the house where they shall dwell, in the company they shall keep, and in all things that shall happen to them. And He calls them not cursed of His Father, as He called the righteous blessed of His Father, that they may understand