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0-1 Julie Herbau.pdf

LETTERS ADDRESSED TO JULIE HERBAU First Superior General 1832 - 1838 Superior General of the Sisters of St. Joseph 1838 -18__ Died 1864 (2 Letters dated 1834 and 1835) L.S.J.M.J 0-1 Very Revere...

0-2 Julie Herbau.pdf

L.S.J.M.J. 0-2 To the very reverend Mother General of the Sisters of Mary of Alost Very reverend Mother General It is in your hands as Mother of the Convent of Saint Joseph, the place of Mother being v acan...

02-0 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -0 "Collection of letters addressed by the Very Reverend Founder of the Ladies of Mary to the religious of his Institute, 1853" The letters are probably addressed to Madame Marine Coulon. (B. Aug 31, 1815; P. May 6, ...

02-1 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -1 I am very pleased with your letter because it sincerely reveals to me that heart I want to see belonging to God alone, and I find at the bottom of that heart goodwill and the desire to submit to what I prescribe. I thank ...

02-10 Marine Coulon.pdf

1 Catalog Number Letter Recipient 0 Julie Herbau Appointed First Superior General: 1832 -1838 1 Superiors at Malines 2 Superiors at Aalst 02 Marine Coulon. Superior of Brussels and Aalst ...

02-100 Marine Coulon.pdf

02-100 Man proposes and God disposes. Now, that adorable arrangement of the Lord's does not this time allow what we had decided about, a journey to Alost. For about a week I have been co nfined to my room with a slight indis...

02-101 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -101 Be very sure that you will not be forgotten in my prayers during this month that is consecrated to our Holy Patron. I hope that you will receive new strength to fight your en emy and have the happiness of triumphing ove...

02-102 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -102 We are approaching that feast which every year brings us great spiritual favors, my very dear daughter in Jesus Christ. Redouble your courage and generosity in the service of your divine Spouse, and St. Joseph will have ...

02-103 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -103 You are astonished, I think, at my silence. I am sorry to have to tell you that the cause of it is: 1) Madame Bathilde who did not give me explanations capable of making me understand the matter with which you had charg...

02-104 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -104 I was very pleased to see that Father ... made the journey to Alost to see and console his relative. I have expressed my gratitude to him for that proof of devotedness he has just given us. I like to think that Madame N....

02-105 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -105 I have come back from my visit to Mouscron well satisfied with my dear children and their pupils. You must have noticed that I was also very pleased with you and your dear Sisters. What a joy it was to find in my Childre...

02-106 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -106 I thank you very sincerely, my dear daughter, and I also thank your dear Sisters for the good wishes you sent me for my patronal feast day. I hope our good God hears your prayers and we will have the happiness of working...

02-107 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -107 I am taking advantage of the present opportunity, my dear daughter, to wish you the gra ces you need to prepare yourself and all your pious family for great feast of Sunday. Let us be very joyful at the memory of the tr...

02-108 Marine Coulon.pdf

02-108 Please tell our dear invalid I am very consoled to see the happy disposition in which, by the mercy of the Lord, she is persevering and even perfecting herself. I make it my duty to pray specially for her, and we have the...

02-109 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -109 I am very much obliged to you for the good wishes you have just sent me in your name and that of your dear Sisters. I have tried also to fulfill my sweet obligations towards you. May our good God deign to hear us for his...

02-11 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -11 Your letters always give me great pleasure, my dear child. You keep me up -to-date on the state of that soul I want to see happy, and you give me proof of that confidence that is precious to me for the fulfillment of the ...

02-110 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -110 You have rightly judged my position; there is hardly any means of writing letters at this time. I am no less thankful for the good wishes you sent me and have prayed zealously for you and your dear Sisters. Please tel...

02-111 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -111 I am making a novena to the Sacred Heart of Mary for all my spiritual children. It will end on the Feast of the Purification. You are not left out of my commendations, as you can well imagine. I do not know whether I h...

02-112 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -112 Here is a letter for the Priest who says the Holy Mass for you. Please give it to him. How is Thérèse your 25 -year -old boarder? She must not be frightened by the little progress she making. If she generously continu...

02-113 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -113 The news you send me yesterday surprised me. I was expecting quite a different result. However, the more one gets on in life, the less eager one is in one's desires to see our days prolonged. Humble submission to th...

02-114 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -114 Accept my sincere thanks for the good wishes you sent me. I too make it a duty of mine to commend you and your dear family to the Holy Patron whom we try to honor through -out this month, and whose feast we are going t...

02-115 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -115 Your good wishes and those of your dear Sisters are very pleasing to me. Please a ccept my very sincere thanks for them. I too have been praying for you throughout this month. We must have confidence, and await for the g...

02-116 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -116 I am acutely feeling the trial to which you, I and the Institute are being subjected to by divine Providence. But I also feel we must put the adorable will of God above ourselves and ever ything. So let us not stop in th...

02-117 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -117 I think I will have the pleasure of coming to see our dear invalid tomorrow, by the afte rnoon coach. If you think the condition of my niece requires me not to go to her in the evening, please tell her that on Tuesday mo...

02-118 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -118 Next Monday, a Black Sister (Sister of Mary and Joseph) from Grammont will be arriving. I am very glad to get this relief for you and your sisters. You need it very much. Tell our dear invalid again that I was very sa...

02-119 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -119 I thank you for all the care you have so zealously given to my dear niece. Please still conti nue, with your community, to pray for the repose of her soul. I have firm confidence that in Madame Félicité, you have and wi...

02-12 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -12 In spite of the endeavors of corrupt nature and of the corruptor, the beloved of your soul remains the sole master of you! I give thanks to him for the loving care he lavishes on you and urge you to make yourself more and...

02-120 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -120 It was in fact, during my stay at N. that it was decided to send you Madame N. I like to think you will be pleased with her devotedness. I am pleased to receive you good wishes, my dear daughter, and beg you to be co...

02-121 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -121 You gave me great pleasure in giving me news that portends success, and allows you to hope for blessings for your convent and your pupils. Let us continue with our efforts, my dear daughter, and you will soon be aware th...

02-122 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -122 I am putting off replying to what you asked me in your preceding letter, until the time when leisure allows me to take more care about it than I could at present. Meanwhile, my dear daughter, put into practice what I adv...

02-123 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -123 For fear that my long silence causes you anxiety, I am writing you a few lines; I haven't the leisure to enter into details. I thank you, my dear daughter, and all your dear Sisters, for the good wishes you sent ...

02-124 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -124 I thank our good God for the blessings he has deigned to grant your efforts to end the school year well. I beg that merciful Father to go on giving you his favors and to shower on you and your dear children at St. Joseph...

02-125 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -125 Your retreat is finished, I think, and I congratulate you on the proofs the Lord has given you of his love, during those blessed days. I have seen Mlle. N. and promised to second her efforts to arrive at the holy state...

02-126 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -126 The news you have sent me gives me much pleasure, my dear daughter. I pray our good God to give you light and strength, so that better than ever you will act wisely and co urageously in every encounter. I am counting...

02-127 Marine Coulon.pdf

02-127 I am profiting by the opportunity provided by M. N. to send you the hundred francs good Therese still owes you. I hope that girl will respond to the expectations of the Soeurs Noires, and that we will not regret what we h...

02-128 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -128 I thank you for the good wishes you sent me in your own name and that of your Sisters. May the Lord deign to answer those prayers, and the ones I offered for you, all your religious family and the pupils who are entruste...

02-129 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -129 I hope to come and see you on Monday, my dear daughter in Jesus Christ. Prepare your notes, so as to do much business in a little time. I will have to return on the same day if that is pos sible. Meanwhile I continue t...

02-13 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -13 Yes, my dear Child, you will have a special share in my prayers. The favors your divine Spouse is granting you are guarantees of that love with which his heart is burning for you and of the graces he still has in store fo...

02-130 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -130 I have just seen the Dean. We talked about the confessor for your pupils. I thought it necessary to limit myself to asking him to be kind enough to add a second Confessor, and in that way to provide the pupils with eve...

02-131 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -131 It was on the very day, that you received communion for me, and I offered the Holy Sacr ifice of the Mass for you, that the arrangement on which you are congratulating yourself was made. Tell Madame N. I am counting on ...

02-132 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -132 I do not want to put off any longer writing a few lines to you, my very dear daughter in Jesus Christ. The time for visits is approaching and it will be harder still for me to deal directly with my children. I am beginni...

02-133 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -133 (Beginning of the letter omitted in photocopying process) ... to come up to your expectations. I congratulate you on that heavenly blessing and unite with you in thanking God for it. As for the novice, it is a cross. Bu...

02-134 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -134 I hope, my dear daughter, next month will be a time of new favors. Try and conduct you rselves, you, your dear Sisters and your pupils, with that confidence and sound piety that always a ttract the attention of the Lord...

02-135 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -135 As soon as the chalice is delivered to me from the Bishop's House, I will send it to you. I cannot say anything positive about the brief appearance you want me to make. However, it is a pity you have not found a pa...

02-136 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -136 I am counting on the pleasure of coming to see you on Tuesday. To -morrow I will offer the Holy Sacrifice to give thanks to the Lord, for the favors with which he has deigned to encourage our efforts, since the installat...

02-137 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -137 If you were as pleased with my visit as I was with you and your Community, you will have found encouragement on the feast of St. Joseph, from whom we are awaiting fresh favors. Continue with zeal to fulfill your ordina...

02-138 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -138 I am counting on seeing you at the end of Easter week. I like to think that with feelings of satisfaction, you will show me your beautiful altar and the improvements to your chapel. Please tell my protégée that her rep...

02-139 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -139 I thank you, my dear daughter, for giving me news so promptly, and I give thanks to God for uniting you in such a way that you can give me good news. I too have been asking for the graces of the Holy Spirit for you. Ma...

02-14 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -14 I have been reflecting, my child, on the trial that God has allowed and have recognized the trap the enemy is laying for you. You must see the order of the Lord in the affections you are to allow yourself. You divine Spou...

02-140 Marine Coulon.pdf

02 -140 You gave me great pleasure by informing me of the good disposition of N. I am continuing to ask the Sacred Heart of our Savior Jesus Christ, for union of hearts and uprightness of minds among my children. A propensity to...