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02 -55 I thank our good God for the blessings he has so kindly given to my advice and your fait hfulness in following them. Continue with the same generosity; success will in the end crown your efforts. It seems to me that y...
02 -56 Please get copied into a good notebook of the kind of those that have been used for writing down the Constitutions of the Sisters of St. Joseph, the Rule I am sending you. If Madame N. write it out as she wrote the last h...
02 -57 It is no doubt to St. Joseph that we owe the fact that you have had the pleasure of giving me and I have that of receiving good news. Let us try and deserve the continuation of the power help of our good Patron. I like to...
02 -58 Now the beautiful month of Mary is drawing to its close. How many graces have been granted to us in it and how many means of advancing more successfully in the beaut iful career to which divine goodness has deigned to le...
02 -59 Although fairly long absences and different circumstances have seem to me reasons for putting off answering your second last letter, I am obliged to recognize that this time I have exceeded the length of time appropriate ...
02 -6 I am delighted, my dear child, to see you advancing in the way of perfection. The fears that come from time to time to trouble your soul are unfounded. No, your heart is not divided; it belongs to its divine Spouse and I ca...
02 -60 I am fully convinced that the sentiments you express to me are those of your heart. So I always receive them with true pleasure, blessing the Lord for obtaining for me such sweet gratific ation for the little I do. Accept...
02 -61 I always receive with fresh pleasure the wishes you send me, my very dear daughter; they come from a heart so imbued with fine sentiments. May our very dear Sisters also accept the expression of my thanks for the testimon...
02 -62 Your good wishes are always dear to me. I accept them gratefully and pray God to receive them and answer us. Our heavenly Father knows the heart that formulates these wishes; he knows that the glory of his name is the aim...
02 -63 I too count a great deal on the continuance of your feelings of filial piety. On this matter I have received protestations so often repeated and coming from so pure a source that I could not doubt but that grace formulate...
02 -64 I was expecting to receive the news that all your dear Sisters and even your novices, each in her own way, have profited from the feast of the Presentation of our august Patr oness. I prayed for you on that day and even ...
02 -65 I always receive with fresh pleasure the wishes you send me. I am so perfectly acquainted with the heart that formulates them that I need only receive them without exami ning them and thank you without limitations. You, t...
02 -66 The care I specially bestowed on your community, during my last journey, and the detailed explanations I provided you with, as much for your personal instruction as for the direction of the others, make me desirous of hav...
02 -67 I was very pleased, my dear daughter in Jesus Christ, with the sentiments you e xpressed to me in your last letter. It is indeed the great proof that one is acting with the grace of the divine Spouse, when, in the depths ...
02 -68 Whatever you think about it, my dear daughter, your state has improved and in spite of the bitterness both your Superiors and St. Joseph himself cause you to experience, you have a greater resemblance to your divine Spous...
02 -69 It is always with pleasure that I receive your good wishes. I thank you for all the good you wish me and I renew the assurance to you that I do not forget you in my prayers. For your consol ation and that of your dear chi...
02 -7 If you find consolation, my dear Child, in opening your heart to your spiritual Father, I can assure you that I feel it also at the sight of that goodness of the divine Spouse for a weak creature, a child of Adam like all o...
02 -70 It seems to me that the motives you allege for hastening the transfer of the pupils into the new establishment are sound and may cause the plan that had been accepted to be modified. B esides the month of Mary adds to the...
02 -71 Tomorrow you will receive the picture I am dedicating to the Convent of the Holy Angels. It is an adoration of the shepherds. I hope your tabernacle will not hide it. If you have not yet ordered a new tabernacle, I urge ...
02 -72 I was pleased to see that your efforts to introduce the tone of decency and politeness among your pupils are having some success and our good God is blessing your house with his cu stomary generosity. I like to persuade m...
02 -73 I have been very pleased to learn that you have the consolation of seeing that the retreat has had a happy effect on your dear Sisters and that your pupils give their mistresses the pro mise of coming up to their expectat...
02 -74 You gave me pleasure, my dear child, by sending me good wishes. I know they come from a devoted heart. Try now to obtain from our good God that I really become what you wish me. I promise you also to pray with confidence ...
02 -75 I am delighted to know that you are well, my dear child, and I bless the Lord for giving us the idea of placing you at St. John the Baptist (convent). Many good effects will prove the wisdom of that me a sure and your hea...
02 -76 Go courageously, my dear child, along the path of renunciation. That path is sure and leads direct to Jesus Christ. Then despise all that is trying to bother you; the will is needed for evil as well as for good. So nothin...
02 -77 You are proving to me, my dear daughter, that you are profiting by the lessons of exp erience and are understanding better and better that one cannot entirely, in this life, avoid the vex ations and impressions of our na...
02 -78 I am always pleased to receive news of you, my dear child. I should like it to be in my power to grant you what you ask of me. But it is not possible for me to come to Mou scron next week. I will come and see you as soon...
02 -79 Be at peace, my dear child, both as regards the past and as regards your confession with which I assure you I was pleased. So do not worry any more about yourself, that self would spoil both the natural good and the super...
02 -8 You give me great pleasure, dear child, by informing me of the graces our good God is giving you and above all by telling me that you are repaying the love of your divine Spouse. I do not ask for you to have affective love...
02 -80 Go on, my dear daughter, conducting yourself with faith and true charity. Whatever your worries and fears, do not torment yourself with them. Your Spouse rests in your heart, his grace is working there; your soul is being...
02 -81 You had no need, my dear daughter, of the long preamble with which you prefaced your letter, to obtain the permission to write to me. You have lost nothing with me of the sentiments that you know I have had for you ever s...
02 -82 I am very pleased my dear daughter, with your letters and the way you have carried out my orders. I pray our good God to give you an abundant share in the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Open your soul to the merciful working...
02 -85 You may be at peace, my dear daughter in Jesus Christ, your Superior will be sent back to you accompanied by a good mistress. I can imagine that the departure of Mme. N. made some impression on you; but your submission to...
02 -84 The details you have just given me both of your woes, and of the good that grace is working in you, have been a matter of consolation for me. I see that you are understanding things better, not getting discouraged at the ...
02 -85 You may be at peace, my dear daughter in Jesus Christ, your Superior will be sent back to you accompanied by a good mistress. I can imagine that the departure of Mme. N. made some impression on you; but your submission to...
02 -86 I understand your condition, my dear daughter in Jesus Christ. You let yourself dwell too much on black thoughts; you do not grant yourself the recreation your body as well as your mind greatly needs. Your divine Spouse J...
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 -88 I learn, my dear daughter, that you sometimes let yourself give in to your inclination towards discouragement because you discover in yourself weaknesses and imperfections and in order to cure yourself, you would like to ...
02 -89 I am pleased to see, my dear daughter that your writing is getting better. Evidently, your body must be getting stronger. Take care to render that service to the traveling comp anion God has given you here below. But it ...
02 -9 Your letter, my dear Sister, is a new proof for me that your divine Spouse has special plans for you. The little tribulations will vigorously purify that heart he wants without ha ving to share it, and then the workings of...
02 -90 I received your news with great pleasure, my dear daughter; it strengthened me in the hope that I have always cherished that time would provide a remedy for your spiritual infi rmities in particular, and even for your bo...
02 -91 It is a long time, my dear daughter, since you received news straight from me. Although the time is not very favorable, since visits take up all our time in town, I am adding a few lines for you to the letter I have addr...
02 -92 Yes, my dear daughter, you gave me pleasure by adding a few lines to those of your Sup erior. I was glad to see that your writing, more than ever, is gradually recovering. I hope your ner vous weakness will yield in its ...
02 -93 Your sentiments and prayers, my very dear child, are very pleasing to me. I know so well the source from which they emanate. May our good God in his mercy answer us and we will wo rthily fulfill the respective duties wit...
02-94 Never get discouraged, my dear daughter; always begin again with fresh courage and ever more real humility and perfect confidence in God. By force of trying and with the help of grace, n ature will be changed. Please, r...
02 -95 Your good wishes, your resolution to work at driving away a certain constriction of heart, by means of views of faith, simple filial abandonment in your outpourings in the bosom of the F ather, all gave me pleasure. I hop...
02 -96 Today I offered the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for the soul of our beloved Lady Flavie. We are indeed right to hope that we already have one more protectress in Heaven and will experience the effects of those touching pro...
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 -98 I am pleased to see that you have begun the month of our august patroness, our tender Mother Mary, with zeal and confidence. Nourish these feelings in yourself, my dear daughter, and in your sisters and pupils. You will g...
02 -99 I thank you, my very dear daughter, for the marks of filial piety you give me every time you have the opportunity to do so. I hope that our good God will reward you for these acts of a virtue that is dear to him. I have a...
L.S.J.M.J 03.6 I recommend to the Mistress of Novices, the feast of the Sacred Heart of our divine Master. It is to that source that I want us to go to draw. Ah! may we intoxicate ourselves with the heavenly l...