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300Letter Nr. 41Paris, June 20, 1836[To J. de Chossotte]Thanks to be God and your charitable protection, Father, every thing isgoing marvelously. Last week I went to Father Auge and he welcomed me as Inever would have been able to hope or deserve. He agreed to everythingalthough, he thought it was a matter of immediately accepting and having ouryoung men enter. Also he formally promised to come every day to say Mass inthe college chapel, to come and take us for a walk in the gardens and to getacquainted with the house. He assigned Father Buquet to help Father Blanc tohear our confessions and he promised to be my confessor himself. So all goesmarvelously. God be praised for it and may he reward you here and in the lifeto come.But the matter of Peter makes me very anxious and to work things out itis again in your help and kindness that all my hopes are placed. Peter agreed toleave Father Desgenettes but without wishing to understand the reason well,only out of friendship and obedience to me. At any rate the news is about thatprodigal son; you have opened again the gates of holy Mother the Church. Wemust indeed have recourse to you to guide us there. As a matter of fact throughyour kindness the means for making ecclesiastical studies has already beenfound for Jerome, it was done through your intercession, and that made someimpression on him. For that was his first reason for coming back fromSolesmes, which he had already abandoned a month after his arrival fromSolesmes in December, and he only got that notion again at the time of the tripto Paris of Father Gueranger (Prior of the Benedictines at Solesmes) under thepretext that he was losing his time to no purpose waiting to enter a seminary,an admission to seminary which was not at all a sure thing.