Letter XIV. To Mother Anne-marie Rosset, Superioress at Bourges

Cn the reception of a certain sister, and on the Constitutions.

27 th March 1620.

MY VERY DEAR DAUGHTER — This note which I can only get out by force from amidst an overload of affairs is only to tell you that as this good daughter about whom you write to me was one of the first of this house, and was of such great consideration as you tell me, I think that, to content this good lady and various persons of respectability, she must be received to profession, since, moreover, there is no obstacle of consequence, and I think that this womanish tenderness about herself will gradually pass away. She can be of the number of associated sisters, who are, I think, the objects of the greatest charity that can be exercised, while waiting for her courage to rise, so that she may be able to bring herself round somewhat to choir. In a word, she must exercise a generous and sweet charity towards her spirit, and consider that God wanted her there for that purpose.

I am looking over the rules and constitutions, and the formularies; in which I have found great mistakes both in the printing and the writing. These I am correcting, and will put the blessed vows so expressly that everybody may be satisfied, and so there may be peace. My dear daughter, I will write again to you soon, but I thought I ought not to delay any longer to write this note.

I salute your heart with all the affection of mine, and am entirely yours. I salute our dear sisters. Blessed be God. Amen.