Surprise at the conclave

"'I think that the conclave's vote that day surprised many people besides me! But what God commands, which may seem humanly impossible, he gives us the means to carry out. That is the secret of every vocation. Every vocation changes our plans, disclosing a new one, and it is astonishing to see how much inner help God gives us, how he tunes us in to a new 'wave length', how he prepares us to enter into this new plan and to make it our own by simply seeing it as the Father's will and accepting it. And all this whatever our weakness and out attachment to our personal views.'"

(André Frossard, Be Not Afraid! p 25)