themselves to Your most holy service. They will find the sweetest consolation of the Holy Spirit, who for Your love have renounced all carnal delight. They will attain great freedom of mind, who for Your name's sake enter into the narrow way,† and have dropped all worldly care.
O sweet and delightful, service of God, by which a man is made truly free and holy! O sacred state of religious servitude, which makes a man equal to the angels, pleasing to God, terrible to devils, and worthy to be embraced and ever desired, in which the greatest good is offered; and joy is won, which shall endlessly remain! •