Book One Spiritual Sister in Jesus Christ, I beseech you to be contented in the vocation through which our Lord has called you1 to serve him, and in it to stand firm, toiling busily with all the powers of your soul; and by the grace of Jesus Christ to fulfil in true righteousness of living the state to which you have committed yourself in likeness and appearance. And as you have forsaken the world like a dead man,2 your body turned to our Lord