Sister Teresa, writing from the Convent of Mount Carmel, thanks her father for his letter to her on her birthday. The presents were most pleasing and the superior purchased ice cream for the community with the money. The last day of her eighteenth year was spent in recollection along with Sister Agnes. On Pentecost, her birthday, she joined the nuns in Tierce in the choir but was not allowed to complete the hours. After the chanting of Tierce, cards which bore the names of the gifts of the Holy Ghost were placed in the middle of the floor and each nun drew a card. Sister Agnes and herself received a blessing from a Passionist priest in hopes it would cure them. Mother Beatrix once lost her voice for several months but recovered upon being blessed by him with a relic of St. Paul of the Cross. This same priest, by a queer coincidence is the one who blessed Mrs. James Alphonsus McMaster when she recovered her sight. Mother Beatrix called her attention to the fact of her mother's devotion to St. Paul of the Cross and now that they are making a Novena to St. Paul, she is doing very well. Her sickness has given her a devotion to St. Joseph. Her confessor told her that devotion to St. Joseph would be beneficial to her in some way on the feast of the Patronage of St. Joseph, and it was on that feast that she recovered well enough to leave her bed. She has never doubted so far that she has a vocation to the Carmelite Sisterhood and hopes that she will persevere. She is perfectly happy even though it is not an easy life. She thanks Jennie and Alphonsus McMaster for their letters. :: I-2-d A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.