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We were reading — you and I — the heroically ordinary life of that man of God. —And we saw him struggle, for months and years (what 'accounts' he kept in his particular examination!), at breakfast time: today he won, tomorrow he was beaten… He noted: 'Didn't take butter…; did take butter!'

May we too — you and I — live our... 'butter tragedy'.

The heroic minute. It is the time fixed for getting up. Without hesitation: a supernatural reflection and… up! The heroic minute: here you have a mortification that strengthens your will and does no harm to your body.

Do you hear? Somewhere else, in another state, in another position, you would do much more good. Talent isn't needed to do what you are doing.

Listen to me: wherever you have been placed you please God,… and what you have just been thinking is clearly a suggestion from the devil.