My Mother, after the long intercession you made in your letter for Mother de Chantal, I do not see that I can refuse to receive the letter she wishes to write me. If I do not answer her in the present time, it will be necessary that it be impossible because I will be looking at her in the future before the face of God with you with me so that it please him to make her such that she may be able to support the brilliance of his face and appear before him without confusion.
It is nothing to have left the world by exterior vows, if in the interior we have not left and torn from our heart by long practices of virtue the invisible world which causes us more evil than the one we see with our eyes. For the devil changes as we change and he shuts himself up within us leaving the world as we leave it in order to attack us more forcefully in our solitude. There is nothing more like being a martyr than to destroy by the spirit the body while we live as the Martyrs brought themselves to life in spirit by destroying their body and gave the spirit a life of glory that it did not have at all in the body.
Translated from the French by Daniel McNeill
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Baseball Metaphysics shows that there are Christian themes hidden in baseball games.
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