The Venerable Sister Mary of Jesus of Ágreda describes how the Lord prepared the Blessed Virgin Mary for the flight into Egypt. The Angel speaks to St. Joseph and other events leading up to the flight into Egypt. The Blessed Virgin Mary tells us how to address difficulties saying, "In addition to this offering is the resignation with which souls embrace and bear with equanimity and patience the labors and difficulties of mortal life. My most holy Son and I were eminent Masters in the practice of this doctrine. My Son began to teach it from the moment in which He was conceived in my womb. For already then He began to suffer, and as soon as He was born into the world He and I were banished by Herod into a desert, and his sufferings continued until He died on the Cross. I also labored to the end of my life, as you will be informed more and more in the writing of this history. Since, therefore, We suffered so much for creatures and for their salvation, I desire you to imitate Us in this conformity to the divine will as being his spouse and my daughter. Suffer with a magnanimous heart, and labor to increase the possessions of your Lord and Master, namely, souls, which are so precious in his sight and which He has purchased with his life-blood. Never should you fly from labors, difficulties, bitterness and sorrows, if by any of them you can gain a soul for the Lord, or if you can thereby induce it to leave the path of sin and enter the path of life. Let not the thought that you are so useless and poor, or that your desires and labor avail but little, discourage you; since you can not know how the Lord will accept of them and in how far He shall consider Himself served thereby. At least you should wish to labor assiduously and eat no unearned bread in his house (Proverbs 31 27)."
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