New Man

April 9
 
My daughters, you must resign yourself to what we have inherited from our parents, Adam and Eve. Self-love never dies before us but with us to the grave.My God, what a disgrace, my daughters, for us poor children of Eve. It is necessary to suffer their assaults permanently sensitive and secret practices while in this miserable exile. But why? Perhaps to have to become discouraged and give up the value and way to heaven? No, dearest daughters, take courage; to us simply will not consent to a dear, deliberate, firm and permanent.
And this virtue of indifference is so excellent that our old self, and emotion and human nature as the natural faculties [apparently missing the end of the sentence, ndr] could not even our Lord, who, like son Adam, though free from all sin and all belonging to it in its sensitive part and according to the human faculties, it was by no means indifferent to the contrary, he wished not to die on the cross, being quiet indifference to that kind of death spirit, inflamed by the power of grace, in addition to himself, since he is the man of grace, the new man.
(September 25, 1917, to Raquelina Russo - Letters. III, p. 505)