Carondelet, February 9, 1838
Monseigneur:
I present my humble respects and beg Your Lordship please to give me permission to go to St. Louis to have the honor of talking with you. There are many things I would like to talk with you about which I cannot express in a letter and which I think you should know. Yesterday evening I had a difficult interview with Father Saulnier [Pastor of Sts. Mary & Joseph Parish] on the matter of singing because, after having asked advice of my Sisters and heard their reasoning, I had the weakness to give them permission to sing by rote and to respond at Mass. About that they said things that I cannot express. So, Monseigneur. I have great need, in my difficulty, to have the honor of an interview with Your Lordship. Please honor me with a brief reply.
Receive, Monseigneur, the humble respects of her who has the honor of being, of Your Lordship,
Your very humble and respectful servant,
Sister Marie Delphine Fontbonne
Letter to Bishop Rosati
Translated from the French
Monseigneur:
I present my humble respects and beg Your Lordship please to give me permission to go to St. Louis to have the honor of talking with you. There are many things I would like to talk with you about which I cannot express in a letter and which I think you should know. Yesterday evening I had a difficult interview with Father Saulnier [Pastor of Sts. Mary & Joseph Parish] on the matter of singing because, after having asked advice of my Sisters and heard their reasoning, I had the weakness to give them permission to sing by rote and to respond at Mass. About that they said things that I cannot express. So, Monseigneur. I have great need, in my difficulty, to have the honor of an interview with Your Lordship. Please honor me with a brief reply.
Receive, Monseigneur, the humble respects of her who has the honor of being, of Your Lordship,
Your very humble and respectful servant,
Sister Marie Delphine Fontbonne
Letter to Bishop Rosati
Translated from the French
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