Reverend Mother, I find myself today with some willingness to come to you to speak about the Cross (Note: It is the third of May, the day of the Discovery of the Holy Cross). I leave it to God to determine for me on the spot or at some time if it will be in public or before the group that I spoke to last time. The reverence that I owe God keeps me in a state of suspension when it is a question of speaking about him and I am also affected by the opinion I have of myself and of those who listen to my words. For the preaching of the word of God is all the more a sacrament different from other sacraments because its effect is less infallible. Since It depends more on us and on our dispositions than on others, we ought to take great care to prepare for it humbly and to have present no other discernments than those we have about other sacraments when we receive them or have received them.
I ask from your charity particular prayers for that business that we now know a great success. We must pray that God direct it not with the providence which takes place in the evils that he permits but the providence which directs and produces the effects that he has divinely ordained. For it is not believable how few actions there are even in the souls who serve God that we may say are done by his will. It is a subject that should humble us.
Translated from the French by Daniel McNeill
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