My Prayer Book_LASANCE - the Catholic Kingdom!

does not feel, but the supreme effort of a supremely
loving heart, the term of self-immolation, -the immolation
of self-will and the heart of flesh, to replace them
by the will, the heart, the mind of God Himself."
"The sovereign love of God teaches the soul to have
the same utter confidence in God's holy will that a little
child has in its father; - here we have hannony,
detachment, trust; in a word, the natural atmosphere
of holy peace."
"Some," says the Imitation, "are at peace with
themselves and others; some are at peace neither with
themselves nor others; some, being themselves established
in peace, strive to establish it among their brethren."
"Him, who belongs to this last category, the 'Imitation'
calls the Ronzrs Homo Pacificz~s, the good pacijic
man. This exactly describes what St. Francis of Sales
*.as. He recommended peace to all the souls he governed
and he worked zealously to impart it to every one
he could. The number of lawsuits he prevented and
the disputes he calmed were almost infinite. This
contagious pace sprang from the same fixed principle
that has given all his writings, and every recorded act
of his life, a grace of ineffable serenity; a frank gentle
gaiety that is grave as well as gay, a depth of calm jo
which wither tribulation nor press of toil ever troubled:
and which, to use one of his own sphols, is like the
"nightingale pouring out her song fmm the middle of
a thorn-bush."
'When we are truly abandoned to God's will," says
Bossuet, "we are reactv for all that may come to us;
we suppose the worst that can be supposed, and we cast
ourselves blindly on the hosom of God. We forget
ourselves, we lose ourselves; and this entire forgetful-
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