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SUMMARY:Office for Vocations
DESCRIPTION:A letter from Fr Jean-Pierre de Caussade to\nA RELIGIOUS SISTER 3\n◊◊◊\nWhen you have neither time nor inclination to read\, try to keep yourself\nsimply in peace in the presence of God… Humble yourself with the\nconsideration of the inefficacy of your own resolutions\, and look upon yourself\nas having so far done nothing. The less confidence you place in yourself\, the\nmore easy will it become to have entire confidence in the mercy of God alone\,\nthrough the merits of Jesus Christ. This is that solid and perfect confidence\nwhich completely annihilates self-love by withdrawing all those resources upon\nwhich it was accustomed to rely. There could be nothing more salutary for some\nsouls than this kind of martyrdom… \nThe more these sacrifices touch us to the quick\, and the more they make\nus die to ourselves\, and detach us from all consolation\, and sensible support\, the\ncloser they draw us to God and unite us to Him. This union is all the more\nmeritorious in being hidden and further out of the range of the senses. Self-love\,\ntherefore\, has no share in it\, since it cannot feed on what it can neither know nor\nfeel… \nYou must remember that in almost everyone there is such a depth of selflove\, \nweakness and misery\, that it would be impossible for us to recognize any\ngift of God in ourselves without being exposed to spoil and corrupt it by\nimperceptible feelings of self-complacency. In this way we appropriate as our\nown the graces of God\, and are pleased with ourselves for being in such or such a\nstate… Therefore\, God\, seeing the innermost recesses of the heart\, and being\ninfinitely jealous of His glory\, is obliged…to convince us\, by our own experience\,\nof our utter weakness. It is for this purpose that He conceals from us nearly all\nHis gifts and graces… \nFor my part I can bear witness to this constant action of divine\nProvidence. God has so completely hidden from those who have appealed to me\,\nthe gifts and graces with which he has loaded them\, that they cannot see their\nown progress\, nor their patience\, humility and abandonment\, nor even their\nlove of God… They can hardly help weeping at the supposed absence of these\nvirtues and at their want of generosity in their sufferings… God withdraws what\nHe had given\, but He does not take it away to deprive us of it absolutely. He\nwithdraws it to give it back in a better way\, after it has been purified from this\nmalicious appropriation made by us without our perceiving it… \nIn this terrible state\, one simple “Fiat\,” uttered very earnestly in spite of\nthe repugnance experienced in the soul\, is an assurance of real and solid\nprogress. Then there remains nothing but bare faith in God\, that is to say\, an\nobscure faith despoiled of all sensible devotion\, and residing in the will… “We\ndraw near to God by faith\,”… “The just man lives by faith.” All this ought to\nconvince you that it is not in anger but in mercy and in very great mercy that\nGod deprives you more than others. It is because He is more jealous of the\npossession of your whole heart and all your confidence… \n3\nJean-Pierre de Caussade. Abandonment to Divine Providence. St. Louis\, MO: B. Herder Book Company\, 1921. 192-193.
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