1. I say further that I see, on God's part, that Paradise has no gate: but whoever wishes to enter, enters; for God is all mercy, and stands toward us with open arms to receive us into His glory.
2. But I indeed see that divine essence to be of such purity and cleanness (and far more than can be imagined) that a soul which has in itself so much imperfection as would be a tiny speck, would cast itself sooner into a thousand Hells than find itself in the presence of the divine majesty with that stain.
3. And therefore, seeing Purgatory ordained to remove those stains from it, it casts itself into it, and it seems to it to find a great mercy, in being able to remove that impediment.
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Remember Eternity · remembereternity.org. AI-assisted English translation drafted with SWE-2 Max from the Italian; selected source comparisons and corrections only. No complete independent translation audit or ecclesiastical approval is claimed. Catherine’s teaching was transmitted by her disciples and first printed in 1551. This translation follows the supplied Italian transcription; the introductory note is editorial. No general reuse licence is specified for this modern translation or its source transcription.