to accommodate the practice of the counsels to our position and character. The attractions of grace which facilitate the practice of the counsels are the chief sign that he is calling us to follow them. He never presses us beyond our strength or aptitudes. Once again, what could be more just? Listen, all you who aim at perfection and are tempted to discouragement by what you read in the lives of the saints and by what is prescribed in certain books of piety. You who are appalled by the terrible ideas