January 13, 1628<\/p>\n
Monsieur,<\/p>\n
About three weeks ago, while I was at Mademoiselle du Fay\u2019s, I had an opportunity to write to you. I am afraid that my letters have been lost. They dealt principally with the advice which I was asking of you concerning my son. However, I am no longer in the same situation, Monsieur. Either God does not want him to become a priest at this time, or the world has raised obstacles to his doing so because his fervor has greatly diminished. I found such a great change in his attitude that I spoke freely about it to the Mother Superior<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> who advised me to place him simply as a boarder with these good ecclesiastics<\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> for reasons which I will explain to you if God grants me the grace, which I greatly need, of seeing your return. Certainly I have never been more acutely aware of your absence because of the needs which have since arisen. In this I must recognize my weakness and I assure you, Father, that if God grants me the grace of recalling the past I will not find in it reason to be proud of myself. For the love of God, I ask for strength through the help of your prayers. I thank you most humbly for the trouble you have taken to write to me and for the honor you have shown me by thinking of me. I do not deserve this, and God is indeed good to put up with me. O my very dear Father, offer my will to the divine mercy for I want, with the help of His holy grace, to be converted and to call myself truly, Monsieur, your very humble servant and unworthy daughter in Our Lord.<\/p>\n P.S. Mademoiselle du Fay is still suffering from her physical infir\u00admities. She has been in bed almost constantly for the past two weeks. Fortunately she does not have a fever. She greatly desires your return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"