May the perfect love of God reign in our hearts.
Please do not think that the distance between us and my apparent silence mean that I have forgotten your charity towards me and the charity I owe you. Your letter tells me that your wishes are just as strong and eager and as persistent as ever. This is a sure sign that they are from God. So you must put your trust in God.
Be sure of this, that you will obtain from Him even more than you think. Heaven and earth would pass away before God would break His promises and allow anyone who hoped in Him to be frustrated in their hopes.
I feel that you are still asking God that by crosses, humiliations and poverty I may acquire divine Wisdom. Be brave, my dear daughter, be brave. I am grateful to you; I feel the effects of your prayers, for I am infinitely more impoverished, crucified and humiliated than ever. Both men and demons in this great city of Paris are waging against me a war that I find sweet and welcome. Let them slander me, scoff at me, destroy my good name, put me into prison; these are precious gifts, tasty morsels, great and wonderful things. They form the accoutrements and retinue of divine Wisdom, which He brings into the lives of those in whom He dwells.
ST. LOUIS-MARIE DE MONTFORT.
Letter to Louise Trichet, 24/10/1703.
In: “God Alone: Collected Writings”.
Bay Shore: Montfort Publications, 1988, p.21
