TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF MONSEIGNEUR DE LA BOUILLERIE, Archbishop of Perga, Coadjutor of Bordeaux.
If you suffer, O Christian soul, these words, I hope, will have seemed sweet to you, and I sum them up thus: God has made us to be born in a world where suffering will necessarily be the habitual companion of your life ; but you have the happiness of being Christian, and the Eucharist also will not cease to be near you.
Learn, then, in what is your dearest interest, to put to profit suffering and the Eucharist. Have recourse to the Eucharist in order better to accept suffering, but, at the same time, never forget that suffering well borne will be for you the surest way of uniting your heart closely with the God of the Eucharist.
