1. But the souls being purified have their will in all things conformed to the will of God: and therefore God answers them with His goodness, and they remain content (as regards the will) and purified from original and actual sin, as regards guilt.
2. Those souls thus remain purified as when God created them: and because they departed this life displeased with themselves, having confessed all the sins they had committed, with the will never to commit them again, God at once forgives them the guilt, and nothing remains to them but the rust of sin, of which they are then purified in the fire with pain.
3. And thus purified from every guilt, and united to God by their will, they see God clearly, according to the degree He grants them to know; and they also see how much the fruition of God matters, and that the souls were created for this end.
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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.