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L.S.J.M.J. 11 -10 Dear Sister Bathilde We think we have noticed a lack of sincerity in Maria. Her illness has seemed to us to be a game which is scarcely of her age. I reco...
L.S.J.M.J. 11 -11 Dear Sister Bathilde I am delighted to know you are well on the way to correcting your character. I shall help you with my prayers; but do not pardon your...
Praise be J.M.J. 11 -12 I am very much obliged to you, my dear Child, for the good wishes your heart is o ffering for your spiritual Father. Accept my thanks for them and the assura...
Praise be J.M.J. 11 -13 Yes, my dear Sister, your good wishes pleased me very much, and it is with a full heart that I have said amen, amen, at the end of the outpouring of prayers ...
Praise be J.M.J. 11 -14 I am taking advantage of the first leisure moment I have, my dear Sister, to converse with you. The opening of your heart that you made to me is all th...
Praise be J.M.J. 11 -15 My dear Sister As bodily health is indispensable for fulfilling the duties of a religious called upon to give instruction, I recommend you to be moderate ...
Praise be J.M.J. 11 -16 My dear Sister If you like to offer me good wishes for my happiness, I can assure you that I too feel a sweet pleasure in occupying myself with being usef...
L.S.J.M.J. 11 -17 I received at Bruges, the letter you sent me, my dear Sister. I am delighted with your wish to belong solely to your divine Spouse and to make yourself more ...
Praise be J.M.J. 11 -18 My dear daughter in Jesus Christ The sentiments you express to me are very pleasing to me, and I thank you for them with all my heart. I know that your us...
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11 -2 Mademoiselle According to what you write to me, I understand that our good God is still leaving you in a type of uncertainty and abandoned so to speak to cold human reason. You see the happiness of the regular life; you kno...
L.S.J.M.J. 11 -20 My dear Sister I hope your health is completely restored and that you have received abundant graces du ring these days of happiness. Be convinced that I d...
Praise be J.M.J. 11 -21 Let us speak no longer, my Child, of your childish acts, nor of what I thought I had to say to you. Since you are making efforts to be what you have to b...
11 -22 It is with so sweet and consoling a sentiment that I am thinking of your happiness, my very dear Sister Bathilde, that I could not find the right expression for it. So you are now the Spouse of that divine Savior, of that Je...
L.S.J.M.J. 11 -3 You did not fail in your duty, my dear Child, by not sending me the details I was hoping for. The matter is not urgent, and I should be very sorry if your duti...
L.S.J.M.J. 11 -4 I have been very pleased to learn that our Flore is at last in the midst of my dear Daughters. Take care of that young plant; the enemy of her salvation will not fail to make efforts to prevent tha...
Praise be J.M.J. 11 -5 I am taking advantage of an opportunity that is very appropriately offered, my dear Child, to repeat to you the recommendation I made you by word of mouth, not...
Please, deliver the enclosed to Mme Emérence. L.S.J.M.J. 18 -64 Madame Superior It seems to me that you cannot invite Mme Emérence to your feast. I cannot then a llow ...
L.S.J.M.J. 11 -7 Dear Sister I am pleased to note that you are training yourself in the style of letter -writing and that you are making satisfactory progress in that respec...
Praise be J.M.J. 11 -8 To spare the weak resources of the Convent, I am writing you only a few lines, my dear Child, but you will never measure the affection of a heart which is very...
Praise be J.M.J. 11 -9 (#1) Dear Sister The improvement you are happy to find in yourself is a good omen, and it caused me real joy. You will not stop on such a good road, a...
L.S.J.M.J. 11 -9 (#2) I imagine, my dear Sister, that you have been making efforts to overcome that sensitivity that has caused me so much pain. It was time; that passion wa...
LETTERS ADDRESSED TO MADAME LOUISE BUSSCHAERT ( *) Born Aug. 10, 1806; Professed July 29, 1835; Died Oct. 2, 1839 (8 Letters dated 1834 to 1838: Nos. 12 -1 to 12 -8) Note: There are 14 letters addressed to a 'Sister Louise...
L.S.J.M.J. 12 -10 I was sorry not to have met you, my dear daughter, on the day of the installation of the Council. However, I have no less zealously fulfilled my duty of comm...
L.S.J.M.J. 12 -11 You will have learned, my very dear daughter in Jesus Christ that my health is good, and I cherish the hope that my spiritual children will obtain for me the...
J.S.J.M.J. 12 -12 My dear daughter in Jesus Christ I am very pleased to find again those sentiments of confidence and submission that I have known you to have for many year...
L.S.J.M.J. 12 -13 My dear daughter in Jesus Christ A few months ago when the Lord was trying the house of the Queen of Angels by frequent ailments of the mistresses, Mme Ma...
L.S.J.M.J. 12 -14 My dear daughter in Jesus Christ Your letter gave me great pleasure. I thank you for the good news you have given me. The ceremonial may be followed only...
Praise be J.M.J. 12 -2 My dear Sister I feel real pleasure in informing you that I approve of the choice, that the Rev. Sisters voters of the Convent of St. John the Baptist have ...
L.S.J.M.J. 12 -3 The interest I have in the novices, my dear daughter, makes me often think of you. I am praying our good God to grant you the graces you need to carry out wort...
Praise be J.M.J. 12 -4 No, my Child, I was not surprised when I did not receive any formula for the act of cons ecration to our good Mother; I knew the reason and I knew it was not l...
Praise be J.M.J. 12 -5 Dear Sister Louise I had already learned that our good God had been putting you to the test; but I was clearly counting on the fact that you would not have ...
L.S.J.M.J. 12 -6 My dear Sister Louise I thank our good God for the graces he is granting you and I strongly urge you to train you rself in the holy love of Jesus Christ. Yo...
L.S.J.M.J. 12 -7 Just a few words to tell you, my dear Child, you must arm yourself with courage and submission to what our good God has judged it good to do. His adorabl...
Praise be J.M.J. 12 -8 My dear Sister Louise I am willingly taking advantage of an opportunity that present itself to say a few words to you: since our good God is pleased to try ...
LETTERS ADDRESSED TO MADAME LOUISE DESCAMPS Born May 4, 1809; Professed Sept. 27, 1841; Died Aug. 21, 1876 (6 Letters dated 1842 to 1858: Nos. 12 -9 to 12 -14) Praise be J.M.J. ...
LETTERS ADDRESSED TO MADAME JUSTINE VAN CROMBRUGGHE (Grandniece of C. G. Van Crombrugghe) Born July 10, 1845; Professed Aug. 30, 1867; Died May 16, 1914 (16 Letters dated 1859 - 1864) L.S...
L.S.J.M.J. 13 -10 Just a few words, my dear Child, to tell you that the principles set out in your letter are true ones, and you can follow them with complete assurance. Certa...
L.S.J.M.J. 13 -11 I have learned, my Child, that our good God is trying you through your health. Knowing your submission to the adorable will of the Father, we have in Heaven,...
L.S.J.M.J. 13 -12 Here are a few words in reply to your letter, my dear daughter in Jesus Christ. No, thank God, you are not in a state of tepidity. Be calm on that subject an...
L.S.J.M.J. 13 -13 Your last letters, my dear daughter in Jesus Christ, have given me very sweet satisfaction. The sentiments with which our good God is deigning to adorn your h...
L.S.J.M.J. 13 -14 My dear daughter in Jesus Christ (Dictated) In the short letter I last addressed to you, I omitted to speak to you about the resolutions you made in your...
L.S.J.M.J. 13 -15 Yes, my Child, I have understood you. I have recognized you from the start and I saw that the Superior General judged you wisely. Far from feeling for you se...
L.S.J.M.J. 13 -16 My very dear Daughter in Jesus Christ On reading, yesterday, the passage about Mary Magdalen in the Holy Gospel, in which that ardent servant of Jesus Chri...
L.S.J.M.J. 13 -2 I am pleased, my dear daughter in Jesus Christ, with the submission you are showing to the decisions of your Superiors, whatever it must cost you to leave the no...
L.S.J.M.J. 13 - 3 Your letter, Mademoiselle, gave me great pleasure. In it I find fresh proofs that you unde rstand the designs of God on you, and wish to respond to those design...
L.S.J.M.J. 13 -4 Your letter, my dear Child, gave me great pleasure. The generous sentiments of submission and devotion to the cause of the Lord that animate you are precious gif...
L.S.J.M.J. 13 -5 I am very please, my dear Child, to know you are at the Novitiate. I congratulate you on that favor and thank our good God for granting it to you. You will wo...
L.S.J.M.J. 13 -6 Your letter, my dear Child, gave me the greatest pleasure. I was waiting for one with great longing. You tell me what interest me, with that simplicity that pr...
L.S.J.M.J. 13 -7 You have done well, my dear daughter, to put off writing to me for a few weeks. I thank you for that delicacy and above all for the prayers you have offered fo...