The other day my wife sent me an email with the subject line, “Submitting to His Will.” As it turned out, it was an article about the Feast of St. Teresa of Ávila. “Christ does not force our will,” the saint wrote. “He takes only what we give him. But he does not give himself entirely until he sees that we yield ourselves entirely to him.”

But I have a confession to make: When I saw the subject line I thought it was about President-elect Trump.