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Dante's Beatrice and the Beauty of the Christian Faith | Dr. George Corbett

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In a Sorbonne, Dante and Oscar Pachin

The first two souls with whom Dante speaks, Medianti Biotrithi, are two nuns. They were forcibly removed from a life devoted entirely to God in a mystical marriage with Christ. In other words, with all souls receiving the Biotitude Commission, how can you have degrees of Biotitude? He asks, tell me you souls were happy here, do you not desire a higher place so as to see more and to share more love? Smiling a little, Biotitude explains that were she to decide more, how will be discordant with God's will? To be in God's will is, she says, the peace of paradise. In his will is

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