Letter 1936

LETTER 1936 [No date.]

Vive >& Jésus!

My dearest Daughter,—The ingenuousness and sincerity with which you make known to me your faults greatly alleviate the pain which they would otherwise have given me. My God! be on the watch not to let your evil inclinations take form in acts, for all the faults you commit come from them, so that I am confident God will not lay to your charge your feelings and dispositions, but only the actions which they produce. Hence, although in your heart you feel neither the respect nor the love due to your Superior, nor the love of your sisters, nor the amiability to ask pardon, all that is nothing: it is only in your feelings, and you will not be held in any way responsible for it so long as you do not letit result in action. I beseech you then, dear daughter, repress within yourself both words and acts: say nothing more than that you will not consent to your feelings. God will bless you if you do this. I beg His goodness to give you His grace, and as to yourself, believe what I tell you, and that I am yours wholly in Our Lord.