in Moments of Melancholy

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Dear Father Francis,

This will be only a short letter to let you know that I am going to have a child. It's strange, but I'm happy and apprehensive at the same time. Please pray for me. 

Yours sincerely

M de la Flechere.


Dear Mrs de la Flechere

I've no time to spare for a proper reply. Still I want to send a line just to let you know that I pray for you every day, and with particular affection, asking our Lord to comfort you in the trials of your pregnancy.

I fancy, you see, that you will be troubled by moods of depression arising from your condition, but please don't let them worry or upset you. If you feel depressed and melancholy, don't let it disturb your peace of soul.

Even if there sometimes seems to be no meaning, life or pleasure in anything you do, continue to kiss your crucifix, with all your love give our Lord your mind and your heart, cold and faint as they are.

Blessed Angela of Foligno describes a revelation in which our Lord told her that nothing pleases him more than the good we have to make ourselves do. In other words, anyone who has really made a good resolution to serve God will do so despite physical weariness and also in times of sadness and interior darkness.

What happiness will be yours when these crosses come if you are faithful to the promises you made to him, whose love for you was so faithful that it ‘brought him to death, death on a cross'!

Stay close to Jesus. Live in Him and for Him, who has made me,


Your devoted Servant,

FRANCIS DE SALES


Community prayer

Magnificat

My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, my spirit rejoices in God my Savior for he has looked with favor on his lowly servant. From this day all generations will call me blessed: the Almighty has done great things for me, and holy is his Name. He has mercy on those who fear him in every generation. He has shown the strength of his arm, he has scattered the proud in their conceit. He has cast down the mighty from their thrones, and has lifted up the lowly. He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty. He has come to the help of his servant Israel for he remembered his promise of mercy, the promise he made to our fathers, to Abraham and his children forever. (Lk 1: 46-55) Magnificat anima mea Dominum; Et exultavit spiritus meus in Deo salutari meo, Quia respexit humilitatem ancillae suae; ecce enim ex hoc beatam me dicent omnes generationes. Quia fecit mihi magna qui potens est, et sanctum nomen ejus, Et misericordia ejus a progenie in progenies timentibus eum. Fecit potentiam brachio suo; Dispersit superbos mente cordis sui. Deposuit potentes de sede, et exaltavit humiles. Esurientes implevit bonis, et divites dimisit inanes. Sucepit Israel, puerum suum, recordatus misericordiae suae, Sicut locutus est ad patres nostros, Abraham et semeni ejus in saecula.

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Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone. Col 4:6

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