Letter X. To Mother de Chantal

Reason for having the change of rooms, fyc., made at the end of the year.

Last day 0/1613.

YES, my very dear daughter, my mother, we must love the most holy will of God in little and in great changes. That which hinders me from going to see you to-day is little and great; I will tell it you at our first meeting. Meantime, make your little and great changes with all the perfection that you can. After having well thought it over before God, I am decided that we must confirm our congregation in making its changes on the day on which God makes his, who causes us all to pass from one year to an other, giving us an annual lesson on our instability, on our mutations, on the removal and annihilation of the years which lead us to eternity.