Mother Agnes, you are always present in my spirit and I can not return within myself without finding you there. I have not received news from Paris yesterday or today and I take that as a good sign for us. For you you do not need any news at all since you live doing only the will of God and awaiting the coming of Jesus Christ which make up the complete piety of a Christian. Saint Paul said that God shall also confirm you unto the end that ye may be blameless to the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. Keep your piety joined in silence with your peaceful acceptance of the evil that you suffer. I do not desire any other piety when it will please God to reduce me to the state where you are now. The greatest humility in life seems to me to conclude it and finish it waiting for God with silence and patience. I would add also with obedience to those who have taken responsibility for the care of our body and soul. We will inherit that from you if God loves you more for heaven than for earth and more for himself than for us.
I have been consoled by the observations that Monsieur Singlin gave me about your condition. I thank God that he continues to favor you by giving you this secret grace that he brings about in you that will never die if you go to live with God but preserves itself in the souls of those on earth who see him and feel him. I feel that he has already brought about something in my soul, which has no greater passion than to live and die in Christian charity. Everything in my religious experience confirms this piety in which God has placed you and it is the only condition I desire for myself at this last time of life. How admirable is the devotion of a soul who lives waiting continually for the voice and the commandment of God and even finds himself full of joy because of the plan he has to obey the voice of God even before he knows what it will be. The good servant of God is one who obeys with joy the voice of God after it resonates in the ears of his soul. But the one that Saint John calls the friend of the bridegroom does more for he feels an unspeakable joy while waiting for this voice.
Translated from the French by Daniel McNeill.
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