Letter 1008. To Sister Anne Baptiste Chauvel

. My very dear Daughter,—I thank you most affectionately for all your little Agnus. We have plenty now, thank God, so you need not send any more. As to your infirmity, the devotion you wish is being made for you, and I have just now offered up Holy Communion for the same intention—but not to ask your cure, my daughter: for if God wishes you to suffer, His most holy willis best of all, and He knows how to draw His glory and your eternal salvation out of this suffering. Abandon yourself wholly to the care and the everlasting love He has for you. Such is your part: you should do this and nothing but this. Leave soul, body, mind, absolutely in His hands. Have no fear of losing your mind under the violence of your pain, for God knows your capacity. He will not put upon you more than you can bear. If it pleases Him to send you this affliction you should submit lovingly to it. Give yourself up, out and out, without any reserve, to His most holy good pleasure, so that He may dispose of you and of all concerning you according to His will, for in this is all our happiness. So act, dearest daughter, I beg of you, for I assure you if you knew the value of your infirmity you would cherish it more than all the good things of earth.

With all true affection of heart, I remain, dearest daughter, unalterably your very humble, etc.