Letter XXIX. To the Same

On charity to candidates who suffer under some corporal infirmity: superiors to be able to change their officers as they think best.

2oth September 1621.

WHAT do we will, my dear Mother, except what God wills? Let us allow him to guide our soul, which is his bark; he will make it arrive at safe port. I am very glad, my dear Mother, that you love the lame, the deformed, the one-eyed, and even the blind, provided that they wish to be of upright intention; for they will not fail to be fair and perfect in heaven; and if one per severe in doing charity to those who have their corporal imperfections, God will cause to come, contrarily to human prudence, a number of those who are beautiful and agreeable even in the eyes of the world.

Here are the Constitutions. No doubt if these unauthorised examiners and censors, who make so many questions about everything, can give themselves a little patience, they will see that all is of God.

Our sisters here are still doing well; we have good and amiable novices, whom I confessed with the others as " extraordinary " in August, and I find them to my liking.

It seemed good to put in the Constitutions that the superior can change the officers as she pleases during the year. Put this, I pray you, in the most proper place. May God fill you ever more and more with his most holy love! Amen.