The Venerable Sister Mary of Jesus of Ágreda tells us how the holy travelers, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph arrived in Egypt and after some wandering, they came to Heliopolis, where great miracles occurred. The Blessed Virgin Mary reminds us that our love and trust in God has many fruits, saying, "My daughter, great and above all else to be esteemed, is the consolation of the faithful friends of my most holy Son, when they with lively faith and assurance are permitted to serve the Lord of lords and the God of gods, who alone holds power and dominion over all creation and who triumphs and reigns over his enemies. In this feeling of assurance, the intellect is delighted, the memory is recreated, the will rejoices and all the powers of the devout soul enjoy the sweetness of the most exalted activity. For they are entirely taken up with this supreme Goodness, Holiness and infinite Power, which has need of none outside Itself and whose will governs all created things (II Maccabees 14:35, Revelations 4:11). O how many thousandfold blessings do those creatures lose who, forgetful of their true happiness, employ all the time of their life and all their powers in attending upon visible things, pursuing the momentary pleasures, and seeking the apparent and deceitful goods of this world! In the knowledge and light granted to you, I would wish, my daughter, that you withdraw yourself from this danger, and that your intellect and memory occupy themselves continually with the reality of the existence of your God. In this endless sea, engulf and annihilate yourself, repeating without cessation: “Who is like to God our Lord, that dwells on high and looks upon the humble in heaven and on earth?” (Psalm 112:5). Who is like to Him, that is almighty and depends upon no one? That humbles the proud, and casts down those whom the blind world calls powerful, that triumphs over the demon and hurls him to the abyss?"
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