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Compiled from Letters of Adele, volumes 1 and 2.

A modern day application and adaptation of the letters of Adele de Batz de Trenquelleon. Session One -- Power of the Pen -- Session Two -- Faith in Action Session Three -- The "Pick Me First" Phenomenon -- Session Four -- God Will Work It Out -- Session Five -- A Pact Between the Heart & the Tongue -- Session Six -- Entrusting Ourselves to a Tender Mother

A modern day application and adaptation of the letters of Adele de Batz de Trenquelleon.
Contents: Session Seven -- Friends Forever -- Session Eight -- When Life Can't be the Same -- Session Nine -- Those Who Do Not Spiritually Advance, Fall Behind -- Session Ten -- God Alone -- Session Eleven -- God's Favorite Virtue -- Session Twelve -- A Sacrament of Love

A modern day application and adaptation of the letters of Adele de Batz de Trenquelleon.
Contents: Session Thirteen -- Tossed by a Tempest -- Session Fourteen -- Taming What Controls -- Session Fifteen -- Warning Light of the Soul -- Session Sixteen -- Calvary--Surer Guide than Tabor -- Session Seventeen -- Arising Anew -- Session Eighteen -- Totally Transformed by the Spirit

Life of Adèle de Batz de Trenquelléon -- Sources: Letters of Adèle de Batz de Trenquelléon -- Celebrate our baptism -- See with the eyes of faith -- God comes to us in the Eucharist -- What kind of ground are we? -- May Jesus be born in us -- Choose God this Lent -- Jesus takes the first step -- Await the Holy Spirit -- We must be "little apostles" -- Draw from the source of prayer -- Love Mary, our mother -- Let us be all to all -- Time is a gift of God -- Sanctity is a path -- Remain firm in hope.

Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Foundation of the Marianist Sisters in the United States, This work is an adaptation of the Marianist Family Lecture given by Father Joseph Stefanelli, S.M., at the University of Dayton during Marianist Heritage Week, 1991.

2 volumes. This work is an English translation from the French 'Lettres de Adele de Batz de Trenquelleon: Fondatrice de l'Institut des Filles de Marie Immaculee, Marianistes, en collaboration avec le Pere Guillaume Joseph Chaminade, Fondateur de la Societe de Marie' (Rome: Filles de Marie Immaculee, 1985).

The Institute of the Daughters of Mary (Immaculate) was founded in May 1816, by Adele de Batz de Trenquelleon. Between that date and the death of Adele in January of 1828, over 135 women entered the Congregation, at least as postulants...All of these more than 135 women were part of Adele's life...what follows is an attempt to recreate some of them, using mostly Adele's own letters, so as to populate her world with the persons who were in fact part of it during the twelve years she spent in the cloister of the convent...This work is concerned only with the twelve years Adele was in the convent, 1816-1828, and does not intend to present complete biographies of any of these persons....It is presumed that the reader is familiar with the biography of Adele and therefore the context in which these women lived. General background information is not repeated in this work.
Contents: Part One: Entrants at the Refuge (1816-1820) -- Part Two: Entrants between September 1820 and July 1824 -- Part Three: Entrants between July 1824 and January 1828 -- Part Four: In the Convent, but not Members of the Institute -- Part Five: Companions outside the Walls.