To render abandonment (holy) possible, we have first to establish ourselves in holy indifference, and then to maintain ourselves in that state by the assiduous practice of Christian mortification. This is the labor of a lifetime.

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….abandonment (is) “a cluster or assemblage of acts of faith the most perfect, of hope the most complete and confident, of love the purest and the most loyal.” Abbot Vitalis Lehodey “Holy Abandonment”