List of points

Don't succumb to that disease of character whose symptoms are inconstancy in everything, thoughtlessness in action and speech scatter-brained ideas: superficiality, in short.

Mark this well: unless you react in time — not tomorrow: now! — that superficiality which each day leads you to form those empty plans (plans 'so full of emptiness') will make of your life a dead and useless puppet.

You say that you can't do more? Could it not be that… you can't do less?

You pray, you deny yourself, you work in a thousand apostolic activities, but you don't study. You are useless then unless you change.

Study — professional training of whatever type it be — is a grave obligation for us.

If you are to serve God with your mind, to study is a grave obligation for you.

Study. Study in earnest. If you are to be salt and light, you need knowledge, ability.

Or do you imagine that an idle and lazy life will entitle you to receive infused knowledge?

Your indolence, your carelessness, your laziness, are easygoing cowardice — so your conscience tells you continually, — but they are not 'the way'.

Idleness is something inconceivable in a man who has the soul of an apostle.