Have need of patience

June 15

Joy is an offshoot of the charity, but, for this joy be full and true, is required to have as its invisible companion to peace, which is in us that the good we have is the supreme good and safe. But is it not God the highest good that the soul loves and loving what you have? It is therefore necessary that the goods, as well as being high, is also safe. Well, the Divine Master assures us that "Your joy no man can remove it." What testimony safer than this? The soul, the thought of this, it may not feel entirely happy. Here's what does jubilant mood face the bitterest contradictions. However, it should be noted that just as the soul while you are in a state of pilgrim may never reach perfect charity, just as his peace can never be perfect. The contradictions, trials are many, contrasts with the poor soul is being abused are so numerous as to make dying at certain times of life, so much of life itself find it unbearable, and this arises from being undermined able to ruin.  But to resist as hard evidence, you have need of patience, a virtue that makes us supporting, without failure, adversity. Look for the soul that makes a profession of perfection bear in mind this virtue, if you are concerned about not working in vain, for it is by this virtue that remains internally ordered.
 (October 23, 1914, to Raffaelina Cerase - Letters. II, p. 197)