List of points

Ever since you said Yes, time has broadened your horizons, giving them new and brighter colours and making them more beautiful every day. But you have to continue saying Yes.

Sincerity: with God, with the director, with your fellow men. —If you act like that, I shall be certain of your perseverance.

“I would like”, you write, “my loyalty and perseverance to be so solid and so eternal, and my service so vigilant and loving, that you could be pleased with me, and I could provide a bit of solace for you.”

—And I answer: may God confirm you in your resolution, so that we may provide help and solace for Him.

It is true that some who become enthusiastic leave later on. Don’t worry: they are the needle God makes use of to draw the thread through the cloth.

—Oh, and pray for them, because perhaps one can manage to get them to keep giving an impulse to others.

To persevere is to persist in love, per Ipsum et cum Ipso et in Ipso… Indeed we can also interpret this as: He himself, with me, for me and in me.

Our Mother went up to Heaven, body and soul. Tell her often that we, her children, do not want to be separated from her… She will hear you!