s'abandonner

Et ainsi, en s'abandonnant au relativisme et au scepticisme (cf.
Thus, giving himself over to relativism and scepticism (cf.
Il invoque l'aide de Celui qui peut le libérer, en s'abandonnant cependant toujours aux mains du Père.
He invokes help from the One who can set him free but always remaining abandoned in the Father's hands.
A l'exemple de Marie de Nazareth veillant sur l'enfant divin, il a vécu ses voeux monastiques dans la patience et la discrétion, s'abandonnant totalement à la volonté divine.
Following the example of Mary of Nazareth who kept watch over the Divine Infant, he lived his monastic vows in patience and hiddenness, giving himself over completely to the divine will.
Si les familles de notre temps connaissent trop souvent l'épreuve et la rupture, ne serait-ce pas parce que nos coeurs, au lieu d'être remplis du véritable amour qui se donne, se sont rendus durs comme la pierre en s'abandonnant à l'égoïsme ?
If the families of our age know too often trial and rupture, would it not be because our hearts, instead of being filled with real love which is self-giving, have been made as hard as stone in abandoning themselves to selfishness?
Les chrétiens ont toujours fait l'expérience qu'en s'abandonnant à la volonté du Père, ils ne se perdent pas, mais ils trouvent de cette façon la voie vers une profonde identité et liberté intérieure.
Christians have always known from experience that, in abandoning themselves to the will of the Father, they lose nothing, but instead discover in this way their deepest identity and interior freedom.
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