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CHAPTER XXVII - Confidence in God

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2011

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Her tenderness of affection to Almighty God, and her inviolable fidelity in pursuing whatever tended to His glory, were followed with a filial confidence in His Providence. She was so far advanced in this virtue before she left England, and thought herself so secure in the hands of God, under the protection of her patron St. Xaverius, that she would have made no difficulty in passing the seas alone, though she knew nothing of the language where she was going. Her director observed afterwards that she never missed of obtaining what she asked of Almighty God. Her father at her departure from England, upon her prayers, found himself wonderfully supplied with money to facilitate her designs of going over seas. In all her wants, both spiritual and temporal, she took her recourse to St. Xaverius without further concern on her side. She found others ready to prevent her in supplying of their own accord all that was necessary, and she particularly observes herself that whenever she was moved by God to ask anything she never failed obtaining what she thus asked. As to what regarded herself, she reposed so securely in the arms of Providence, that she knew not what it was to admit any diffidence or uneasy doubt of her salvation, yet, as she observes very well in the place in which she mentions this, her confidence, grounded on the known goodness of God, and the infinite merits of Christ, was very different from that vain presumption with which the proud soul sometimes deludes herself.

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An English Carmelite
The Life of Catharine Burton, Mother Mary Xaveria of the Angels, of the English Teresian Convent at Antwerp
, pp. 240 - 246
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1876

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