Again the same religious appeared on his rung as before and said: “O Judge, I ask you:”…
“Why did you not cause all your words to be heard in a single moment? Then it would not have been necessary for them to be preached through the intervals of time.”…
“As to why I did not speak all my words in one hour, I answer you: Just as, materially, it goes against the body for it to take in one hour as much food as might content it for many years, so it is against the divine arrangement that my words, which are the food of the soul, would all have been spoken in one hour. But just as bodily food is taken in little by little, to be chewed and, when chewed, to be carried to the interior, so my words were not to be spoken in one hour, but rather through the intervals of time, in accord with the intelligence of those who were making progress, in order that the hungry might have something by which to be satisfied and that when satisfied, they might be excited to higher things.”…
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Saint Bridget
Saint Bridget (1373) was a widow and a religious foundress. She is the patron saint of Sweden and co-patron of Europe.