His Heart was Her Heart

The following is a fragment of the Virgin's words to Saint Bridget, explaining her own sorrow at the Passion of Christ, and about how the world was sold through Adam and Eve and bought back through Christ and His Virgin Mother. “Jesus came and was in me through love. The Word and Love created Him in me. He was for me like my own heart. This is why, when I gave birth to Him, I felt as though half my heart was being born and going out of me. When He was suffering, it felt like my own heart was suffering. When something is half outside and half inside and the part outside gets hurt, the part inside feels a similar pain. In the same way, when my Son was being scourged and wounded, it was as though my own heart was being scourged and wounded.” “I was the person closest to Him at His Passion and was never separated from Him. I was standing near His Cross and, as that which is closest to the heart hurts the worst, so His pain was worse for me than for the others. As He gazed down at me from the cross and I gazed at Him, my tears gushed from my eyes like blood from veins. When He saw me overwhelmed by pain, He grew so distressed over my pain that all the pain of His own wounds subsided when He saw the pain in me.” “I can therefore boldly say that His pain was my pain and His heart my heart. Just as Adam and Eve sold the world for a single apple, you might say that my Son and I bought the world back with a single heart. And so, my daughter, think of me as I was at the death of my Son, and it will not be hard for you to give up the world.”