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DESCRIPTION:CONFIDENCE IN GOD IS THE CURE OF SELF-LOVE\nA letter from Fr. Jean-Pierre de Caussade to a religious sister 2\n◊◊◊\nMy dear Sister\, \nWhen you have neither time nor inclination to read\, try to keep yourself\nsimply in peace in the presence of God… If you seem to be wanting in courage for\nmany things\, compel yourself at any rate to retain in your heart a determination\nto be all for God. Humble yourself with the consideration of the inefficacy of your\nown resolutions\, and look upon yourself as having so far done nothing. The less\nconfidence you place in yourself\, the more easy will it become to have entire\nconfidence in the mercy of God alone\, through the merits of Jesus Christ. This is\nthat solid and perfect confidence which completely annihilates self-love by\nwithdrawing all those resources upon which it was accustomed to rely. There\ncould be nothing more salutary for some souls than this kind of martyrdom… \nThe more these sacrifices touch us to the quick\, and the more they make us\ndie 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. May God deign to convince you of the truth of this consoling assurance\, which\nis the teaching of all the Doctors of the Church\, and is confirmed by every\nexperience. In order to understand it thoroughly you must remember that in\nalmost everyone there is such a depth of self-love\, weakness and misery\, that it\nwould be impossible for us to recognise any gift of God in ourselves without being\nexposed to spoil and corrupt it by imperceptible feelings of self-complacency. In\nthis way we appropriate as our own the graces of God\, and are pleased with\nourselves for being in such or such a state. We attribute the merit to ourselves\, not\,\nperhaps\, by distinct and studied thought\, but by the secret feelings of the heart.\nTherefore\, God\, seeing the innermost recesses of the heart\, and being infinitely\njealous of His glory\, is obliged… to convince us\, by our own experience\, of our utter\nweakness. It is for this purpose that He conceals from us nearly all His gifts and\ngraces… \nFor my part I can bear witness to this constant action of divine Providence.\nGod has so completely hidden from those who have appealed to me\, the gifts and\ngraces with which he has loaded them\, that they cannot see their own progress\,\nnor their patience\, humility and abandonment\, nor even their love of God. Then\,\ntoo\, they can hardly help weeping at the supposed absence of these virtues and at\ntheir want of generosity in their sufferings… God withdraws what He had given\,\nbut He does not take it away to deprive us of it absolutely. He withdraws it to give\nit back in a better way\, after it has been purified from this malicious appropriation\nmade by us without our perceiving it… \nIn this terrible state\, one simple “Fiat\,” uttered very earnestly in spite of the\nrepugnance experienced in the soul\, is an assurance of real and solid progress.\nThen there remains nothing but bare faith in God\, that is to say\, an obscure faith\ndespoiled of all sensible devotion\, and residing in the will… “We draw near to God\nby faith\,”… “The just man lives by faith.” All this ought to convince you that it is not\nin anger but in mercy and in very great mercy that God deprives you more than\nothers. It is because He is more jealous of the possession of your whole heart and\nall your confidence…. \n2\nJean-Pierre de Caussade. Abandonment to Divine Providence. St. Louis\, MO: B. Herder Book Company\, 1921. 192-193.
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