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It is without doubt a rough and mortifying life, but it has the dual advantage of completely sacrificing human nature. It also throws light on a vocation, which, it has to be said, is composed of the most complete abnegation and for some perhaps even martyrdom

We therefore thought to begin by giving them a signal mark of deference and make ourselves, so to speak, similar to them by adopting their external way of life, their clothing, their food, their nomadic life, and their language. In brief, it was to be ‘all things to all men’ to win them for Jesus Christ.

But you are sufficiently aware of your inadequacy and weakness to know that you can do nothing without the constant help of Our Lord and His Divine Mother.