The Son of God speaks to Saint Bride thus: 'Daughter, do not be afraid; this woman who is sick shall not die, for her work pleases me'. And when the woman was dead, the Son of God said again to Saint Bride: 'So, daughter, it is true what I said, this woman is not dead, for her bliss is great. For the separation of body and soul of just men is only a sleep, for they awake in endless life. But it is truly to be called death when the soul, separated from the body, lives in death everlasting. There are many who take no heed of things to come, desiring to die in Christian death. But what is Christian death, but to die as I died, innocently, willingly and patiently?

Am I therefore to be despised, because my death was despicable and harsh? Or are my chosen therefore fools, because they suffered despicable torments? Or does it come because of Fortune, or was it wrought by the course of planets and of stars? No, but therefore I and my chosen suffered great passion to show in word and by example that the way to Heaven is hard, and that it should be intensely borne in mind how much need the wicked have to be cleansed since the innocent and chosen suffered such poignant things.

Therefore you are well aware that he dies despicably and evilly who, living dissolutely, dies in the state of sin, and likewise he who goes out into the world desiring to live longer and not thanking God; but he who loves God with all his heart and is troubled innocently with despicable death or weighed down with longer sickness, he lives and dies blessedly. For a poignant death lessens sin and the punishment for sin, and increases the reward in Heaven.

'So, I bring two men to your mind who after men's judgment died in bitter and contemptible death, who, unless they had obtained such deaths by my great mercy; should never have been saved. But because God does not punish twice those who are contrite in heart, therefore they gained the crown of endless reward. Therefore the friends of God ought not to despair, though they have their temporal tribulation or though they die a bitter death. For it is most blessed to sorrow here for a time and to be troubled in this world, that they do not come to more grievous Purgatory, where there is no fleeing nor time of labouring'.