It is an admirable thing to observe the gentleness with which our savior Jesus Christ behaved towards his imperfect apostles. He spoke to them and supported them with their faults and even in the case of Judas, the son of perdition, speaking to him still with charity at the very time even when he was completing his crimes by the most horrible one by delivering up his master to the Jews. All the saints imitated Jesus by yielding with compassion and humility to the desires of their disciples although they saw them as useless. When we speak to a soul with faults and imperfections in a spirit of humility and charity, although we are not of any help for it, we are of great help to ourselves and will receive perhaps from the goodness of God grace for our patient effort dealing with a troubled soul who needs the penitence we experience talking to it but has none. We need to pray to God because to behave well in such circumstances we have great need of him.
Translated from the French by Daniel McNeill.
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