List of points

Your holy impatience to serve him does not displease God. But it will be fruitless if it is not accompanied by a real improvement in your daily conduct.

In your interior life, have you slowly considered the beauty of 'serving' with ever-renewed willingness?

Your personal experience — those feelings of restlessness, despondency and bitterness — makes you realise the truth of those words of Jesus: no one can serve two masters!

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.

Ah, if you would only resolve to serve God 'seriously', with the same zeal with which you serve your ambition, your vanity, your sensuality!…

The non serviam of Satan has been too fruitful. Don't you feel the generous urge to express your daily desire for prayer and work with a serviam — I will serve you, I will be faithful! — which will surpass in fruitfulness that cry of revolt?

In that cry serviam! you express your determination to 'serve' the Church of God most faithfully, even at the cost of fortune, of reputation and of life.

It is good that you serve God as a son, without payment, generously. But don't worry if at times you think of the reward.

Patriotic fervour — which is praiseworthy — leads many men to turn their lives into a 'service', a 'crusade'. Do not forget that Christ too has his 'crusaders' and people chosen for his service.