Status Updates From La Divina Comedia (Tomo II)

“142-144. Mary is presented as wanting to be sure others are fed properly at the marriage feast in Cana of Galilee (the same biblical scene [John 2:1-7] that furnished, in Purg. XIII.29, her charitable answer to Envy); she was not herself interested in eating, and her mouth is rather presented as being preserved for her later task, as intercessor, of intervening for sinners with her prayers.”

“there is a tremor when a soul knows it is ready to ascend to heaven—and then everyone cries out
(c) then the will is no longer hindered by the desire to suffer justly, as it has been”