Living cloistered in Mary’s Heart is a state of the soul who has entered union with God and no longer belongs to this world. She now lives in Mary’s silence in her interior crucifixion with Christ. The gift of the soul’s “long-suffering” continues to purify her of all resentments, frustrations, repulsions, disappointments, and anger, so that she is left in the union of sorrows with God. This state of union with God’s pure sorrows lived with Mary, and in Mary is finally the union of Love.

The soul enters the SILENCE OF RECEIVING. She can receive the good, as well as the brokenness, sins, and oppressions of the other without feeling any resentment, anger, frustration, or disappointment. No human desire exists to agree, disagree, react, explain, or justify. The soul solely RECEIVES the other as the other is, and chooses only pure, undefiled love, God’s fire of divine love. The soul now only desires to REMAIN in Christ’s agony of love with Him—consumed with the fire of divine Love and in the groans of His excruciating sorrows. There are no more words but only the SILENCE OF LOVE.

When Jesus’s agony began, there were no more words from Jesus and Mary. Jesus entered the SILENCE OF RECEIVING all our brokenness into His Sacred Heart to GIVE us the outpouring of His precious Blood, the Sacrament of the Holy Spirit.

In the cloister of Mary’s Heart, in her “Soledad,” the soul enters the silence of God. The soul lives in God’s grief, generosity, and waiting with expectant faith and hope. Love is transmitted through the silence of the gaze of “tenderness in mercy.”

She lives now in the silence of having become Abba’s “living white cloth” in Mary and with Mary, soaking up Jesus’s Blood discarded by souls. This is perfect love, heaven on earth.