The exile is continuing, and the silence is continuing (for others). I shall later tell you orally what Jesus said to me in this regard. There is no danger that I will forget to! But it is something to be said face to face. Too special to be entrusted to letters. I know how to act.
Last week I really was not able to observe the Hour of Mary’s Desolation. Friday was that... dear little day I described for you.797 On Saturday I was exhausted on that account, and at night I plunged into a sopor which ended at dawn, with utter heaviness, but was prolonged as a daze until almost 8 a.m. on Sunday. And I was thus unable to do anything. I am sorry because since I became a Servite,798 I have never omitted this accompanying of Mary in her desolation.799
797 November 25.
798 A member of the Third Order of the Servants of Mary, also called “Servites.”
799 The original notebook at this point contains the episode involving “The Lullaby of the Virgin,” to be found in the Preparation cycle.