Holy Abandonment, being perfect, loving, and filial conformity with God’s will, can only come from charity. It is indeed the natural fruit of charity, in such sort that a soul so far advanced as to live by love will live also in abandonment. For it is the property of love to unite man intimately with God, the human will with the divine good-pleasure. Besides, this perfect conformity presupposes perfect detachment as well as perfect faith and confidence. Now, there is nothing that can elevate us to such a height of virtue except divine love, and love does it quite naturally.
From Holy Abandonment, by Rt. Rev. Dom Vitalis Lehodey, O.C.R.. (Tan Books and Publishers, Inc. Rockford, IL 61105)
