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YOUR VOCATION
YOUR advancement in virtue depends on the love you entertain for
your Vocation. As you daily meet with difficulties, you cannot even
persevere in it, unless your love for your holy calling is greater
than the pains and trials you encounter. God having called you, you
should be willing to suffer any loss rather than consent to anything
that would tend to diminish the esteem you should have for your
Vocation.
In order to increase your love for your Vocation, have
recourse to prayer, to beg this grace of God. A sure way to increase
in this love is to be very humble, and to live always disengaged
from earthly things. One thing which might tend to diminish your
esteem for the Vocation God has given you, and even cause you to
lose it, is to listen to the maxims of the world, as also to the
talk of the Sisters that have but little love for their holy work.
This is one of the greatest obstacles to the love you ought to have
for your Vocation, and one of the most dangerous that can infect
the Community, and is so much the more to be dreaded, as it is
generally the least feared.
Another thing which might tend to diminish your devotion to
your Vocation is a want of sufficient esteem for it, not
considering it as a very signal favor to have received it, and not
resisting immediately the first feelings of disgust you may
experience.
Again, a want of fidelity in observing our holy rules, and
failing especially in small things through voluntary negligence is
certain to have the same effect. |
