Salesian Literature

LETTERS OF SFS

Mademoiselle de Soulfour

 

Mlle de Soulfour, whose father was an acquaintance of Francis de Sales through the “Cercle Acarie,” was a novice in a religious community in Paris at the time Francis wrote her the following letters.  Young, fervent, and with high ideals of perfection, she had difficulty in accepting human frailty in herself and in the nuns with whom she lived.  She had confided her disillusionment and uncertainties to Francis and told him of her wish to enter the more strict Carmelite Order.  While respecting her youthful idealism and her desire for the absolute, Francis directs the troubled young woman to a more realistic appreciation of her own limitations and the imperfections of others, and to a greater trust in God’s providence.  She did enter the Carmelite monastery at the rue Saint-Jacques Paris and persevered in her vocation until her death in 1633.

 

We must have patience with ourselves

Prayer: The Two reasons

 

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