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Life of Father Hecker

CHAPTER XXII
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We will make some extracts.

It begins thus: "Before commencing what is to follow, I cannot resist making the confession of my feebleness and incapacity to express even conveniently those things which I feel it my duty to relate, that I may walk with greater security and quicker step in the way of God.

It would not surprise me if one who has not taken the pains to investigate this matter sufficiently should doubt indeed whether such singular graces, seeing the faults I daily commit and my many imperfections, had really been given to such an individual.

A similar remark to this was made by my last director.

But this is a cause of much joy and consolation to me; (that is to say) that my interior life is hid and unknown to others except those who direct me.


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