It ends thus: "Dear mother, in half an hour I go to the chapel to consecrate my whole being for ever to God and His service.

What peace, what happiness this gives me! To live alone for His love, and to love all for His love, in His love, and with His love!" After the ceremony was over he wrote as follows to his brother John: "DEAR BROTHER JOHN: This day, with the special grace of God, I have taken the holy vows of the Catholic religion, which are obedience, poverty, chastity, and final perseverance.

These vows bind me to the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer for my natural life, and the Congregation in the same manner to me.

Thanks to God for His kind Providence.

My vocation is once for all, for ever settled, firmly fixed.