NOTE 1: Abandonment, that holy abandonment, is different than
obedience, which has its roots in the cardinal virtue of justice,
whereas abandonment has its roots in the theological virtue of charity.
Holy abandonment surrenders one's own will to that of the will of God:
surrender is more than resignation or submission, for it is done out of
total love for and trust in God, after first having accomplished in
oneself indifference to the will of God, that is, having no preference
whatsoever, but that one always wills what he wills, because He wills
it. In resignation, one can may still maintain one's preference while
accepting the will of God. This is submission, not surrender because
one has not completely given up one's own will.
NOTE
2:
The original English usage has been maintained throughout. For
instance, if you
should see the word catholic, when you think it ought to be Catholic,
the lower case is correct. We seldom employ the word "catholic"
meaning, universal, anymore, but when this work was penned, it was in
common use. The one exception is the verb fulfill which replaces the original fulfil, in order to shorten Spellcheck operations
because the author employed variations of this word so often.
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