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O YE virgins, I have but a word to say to you. If you look to
married life in this life, guard your first love jealously for
your husband. It seems to me a miserable fraud to give a husband a
worn-out heart, whose love has been frittered away and despoiled
of its first bloom instead of a true, whole-hearted love.
But if you are happily called to be the chaste and holy bride
of spiritual nuptials, and purpose to live a life of virginity,
then in Christ's Name I bid you keep all your purest, most
sensitive love for your Heavenly Bridegroom, Who, being Very
Purity Himself, has a special love for purity; Him to Whom the
first-fruits of all good things are due, above all those of love.
S. Jerome's Epistles will supply you with the needful counsels;
and inasmuch as your state of life requires obedience, seek out a
guide under whose direction you may wholly dedicate yourself, body
and soul, to His Divine Majesty.
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