Letter 1924

[No date.] Vive > Jésus!

Although I am so overwhelmed, here is a little note to you, my dearest daughter. I do so love your great goodness and frankness! But how I long to see your dear heart rise above itself and above its natural inclinations! Work at this, dear daughter, yet let it be without worrying: for all that is needed is simply to retrench the heart’s superfluity of anxieties, of desires, of plans, and bring it to repose with all sweetness on the loving breast of its Saviour. I see in you the attraction to this state, but to arrive at it is impossible save by the practice of self-denial.

Courage, dearest daughter; we must be stripped of ourselves in order to be clothed with Him.

I salute the good Mother and your dear self, whom I dearly love, etc.