Referring to Saint Francis’s favorite maxim for acquiring perfection, “Ask for nothing and refuse nothing,” Saint Jane says: Few things are needed for perfection: to will what is right and to do it—everything lies in this. But it is rare indeed to find one who will take up in real earnest and with determination the complete renunciation of self this entails. Perfect simplicity, my Daughters, consists in having one single aim in all our actions: that of pleasing God. The second