To prosper.
“It has been decided I will to attain all the Visitandine perfection that the Divine will desires of me. Our blessed Father has said that this perfection is very high. Therefore, I must not remain stationary or languid, but rather fervent and progressing.
Such a state is the result of the third article, well understood and well practiced. Little by little I shall meditate on these marvels, but I foresee already where this way to which grace attracts one leads to love without interruption, where the only anxiety of the soul is to place no obstacle before the inundation of this love into herself, but rather to change these obstacles by bearing them with peace and sweetness into means of meriting always a greater abundance of love.
By this offering, then, these merits re ascend toward the divine goodness to be to be reflected down upon souls.
These are incalculable treasures. It depends only on me whether I shall possess this wealth.”
Source: Mother Jeanne de Chantal Jouzel of the former Monastery of the Visitation of Gennes-Sur-Seiche, France.
Reference: The Third Article
The Sisters who wish to prosper and make progress in the way of our Lord must at the beginning of all their actions, both interior and exterior, ask for His grace and offer to His divine goodness whatever good they may do, thus preparing themselves to endure with peace and gentleness of mind, all the trouble and mortification they may meet with, as coming from the fatherly hand of our good God and Savior, whose most holy intention as by such means to make them merit, that he may afterwards recompense them with the abundance of his love. This they must not omit, even in little matters, and such as seem to them of small importance, even though employed in things wholly agreeable and conformable to their will and necessity, such as eating, drinking, resting, recreating, and such like. So that according to the counsel of out of the apostle, whatever they do may be done in the name of God and for His sole pleasure.