Eugenie-Marie Lerebourg 1809-1892
My Reverend and Most Honored Mother,
Peace and most humble salvation in Our Lord Jesus Christ who has just afflicted our hearts again, very sensibly.
Scarcely has the stone covering the vault where we have the happiness of keeping the remains so dear to us of our venerated and so beloved Mother Geneviève been sealed, than he removes from our affection the first of the postulants of our Carmel, Sr Marie-Eugénie Saint-Joseph de JESUS, 83 years old and of religion 52 years old.
This beloved sister, by a note found in her vows, asks to have a circular only to claim the suffrages of our Holy Order; we therefore conform, my Reverend Mother, to the desire of this Soul filled with simplicity and innocence, the true ancient type of the first daughters of Our Mother Sainte-Thérèse, and whose death, like the humble and hidden life, leaves us with a great peace and a sweet assurance of his happiness.
Excessively fearful, she had always dreaded the great fears of death and they were spared her.
But one must be so pure to appear before God that we beg you, my Reverend Mother, to return to him as soon as possible the suffrages of our Holy Order, by grace a communion of your Holy Community, a day of good works, the indulgence of the 6 paters and those of the Way of the Cross, begging you, my Reverend Mother, to add to them the prayers requested by her: the Languentibus, the prayer for the dying: O most merciful Jesus..., an honorable amends in expiation of his negligence, a miserere in reparation for his faults, a Te Deum in thanksgiving for the benefit of his vocation, an invocation to the Blessed Family, to Saint Eugenie, Saint Thérèse, Saint John of the Cross, Saint Anthony of Padua, Blessed Mary of the Angels, Saint Stanislas Kostka and Saint Louis de Gonzague.
She will be very grateful to you, as well as to us, who have the grace to tell us at the foot of the Cross,
My Reverend and Most Honored Mother,
Your most humble sister and servant in NS
Sister Marie de Gonzague
ROI
At the time when we were printing these few lines, our most honored Mother Sub-Prioress was giving up her beautiful soul to God; please, My Reverend Mother, have her return the suffrages of our Holy Order as soon as possible and allow us to commend our poor little Carmel, so tried, to the prayers and holy sacrifices of your fervent Community. Several of our sisters still give serious concern.
From our Monastery of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and of the Immaculate Conception of the Carmelites of Lisieux, January 2, 1892.
