Note 431 — APPENDIX TO PART II CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT AND CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE MATERIALS FOR THE RE-CONSTITUTION OF SAINT CATHERINE’S LIFE AND TEACHING. (continued 2)
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The “scintilla,” “stilla,” and “immersion in the sweetness of Love”: Dialogo, p. 252a, b, c. In the Vita-proper “scintilla” is but once (and in a doubtful passage) so used, p. 148b; in the other passages “non una minima scintilla” means there “not a glimpse” of this or that, pp. 5c, 62a. “Stilla” of Blessedness, p. 119c; “goccia” of Love, pp. 94b-95c; “gocciola” of spiritual water (refreshment), p. 135b. “Ocean” and immersion therein, pp. 59b, 60b.