Mother Agnès: I was reading the Sunday Gospel to her: the parable of the Good Samaritan.

Saint Thérèse: … I’m like that poor traveler “semivivo”, half dead, half alive.

Mother Agnès: It’s hard to suffer without any inner consolation.

Saint Thérèse: Yes, but it’s suffering without worry. I’m happy to suffer because the good Lord wills it.

Agnès of Jesus, OCD (Pauline Martin) and St. Thérèse of Lisieux

The Last Conversations, Yellow Notebook
29 August 1897

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