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 and sincerity to his own father; and the father ought to rejoice at it. Our state of mind at this moment is the same as that which spurred St. Catherine of Siena to display her indignation against Urban VI. (when with a passionate unfeelingness he sought to blunt her eagerness in her schemes of reform) by hurhng at him these words, so living in their present application: "Justice without mercy would be injustice rather than justice. Do what you do in measure, and not without measure (for to act without measure destroys rather than mends), and with benevolence and peaceful heart. For the love of Christ Crucified, moderate a little those sudden movements to which Nature urges you."

For us, profoundly Christian souls, religion, far from being a vague, mystical feeling which soothes the spirit and isolates it in a barren egoism, is a Divine reality, which kindles into life and exalts the souls of men, and, knitting them