HUMAN FRIENDSHIP

illustrated by Giang Pham RNDM

“You should not have allowed yourself to stay for any reasons of human friendship; they are the bane and the ruin of all religious life. Otherwise you would be like Eve, talking with the serpent! No explanation is needed; she knows the rules as well as you. To flee as you would flee from a serpent, that is the duty to which you have promised. So much the worse if that causes her pain; since she has acted like a serpent, she must be treated like one … This has gone on for too long.”

Euphrasie Barbier, 25 January 1877

Mother foundress of Our Lady of the Missions