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III.

NOTES ON THOUGHTS OF PRIDE
1
AND OTHER DEFECTS
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1 - 4 FEBRUARY (Year uncertain)
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I am writing for the greater glory of God, in obedience. I
pray that the Lord may make me write with all simplicity what
he wishes me to write, so that he (spiritual director) who acts
on His behalf may come to know my inner dispositions and my
behaviour.

1 In Bartolomea’s script, the vowels in italian a, e, i, o, u are replaced by
numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, a habit which Venerable Bartolomea sometimes uses in
other writings on her conscience, so that only her Confessor, who had the key to
the reading, could understand.
It must be kept in mind that, strictly speaking, these are not defects but rather
temptations overcome with generosity by Bartolomea, and so they point to real
acts of virtue.

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