Letter 134

From Quebec, to Mother Mary Beluche of the Nativity, Ursulines, Tours. 3 Sept. 1651.

I have undergone great fatigues up to the present, but I am destined for the cross.

Pray to our Good Jesus that He may make me carry it for His greater glory, and that by these labours I may be animated to follow Him in this world to the extent that pleases Him. Dear Mother, I tell you, labour is my lot, and there I find my peace. Return thanks for me to Him, Who has so lovingly shared it with me. Assure our dear Sisters that we are by no means dispirited under the wood of the cross, and that Our Lord, seeing our weakness, has mingled so much grace and sweetness with the wood that the suffering is overbalanced and we would not change our suffering state for all the consolations in the world, our poverty for all its abundance.

p. 163.