01 canonisation beginning of Mother Aimée Lautier'letter Dec 8,1885 EN

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Ave Maria

DEAR REVEREND MOTHER, DEAR SISTERS AND CHILDREN:

The year is drawing to a close. It has been rich in sorrowful trials and in signal graces for our beloved little Society.

The Lord God called to eternal life our venerated foundress, Mother Victoire Thérèse Couderc. Notwithstanding our firm hope of her glory, and our faith that makes us rejoice in her blessed death, realizing that, as she was wholly God’s own, she is now more than ever all things to her religious family, yet we are heartbroken with grief, for her presence was a great strength and sweetness to us.

The suffrages requested for her blessed soul do not satisfy our filial piety, so we invite the local superiors to have them continued in a large measure for her, for our deceased sisters and for all the souls in purgatory. So that, if it pleases the Divine Majesty, those holy souls whom our venerated Mother helped during her life with such charity, may be delivered or greatly solaced by our prayers and our daily works.

Moreover, we desire that the three Gloria Patri which follow the Angelus be offered for the special intention of obtaining from the Divine Goodness that the Cause for beatification of our first Mother and for Father Terme may be introduced without delay.

It is important that the superiors or another religious in the house be appointed at once to gather from the community and externs all that concerns Mother Thérèse personally or is connected with her life, her virtues, sufferings, her blessed death and the favours already obtained through her intercession. These documents will be sent to the general secretariat every six months. Copies must not be made, and we must not speak or write of them to our religious or to externs. Great prudence must be observed in this affair, for the least indiscretion could compromise everything.

If it seems favourable, the superiors may ask the bishop of the diocese to grant the favour of an indulgence to the prayer composed by Mother Therese: “Omnipotence of the Father,” etc. Cardinal Guibert, Archbishop of Paris, granted an indulgence of 100 days in his diocese, on October 24, 1885.