List of points

I would like you to behave as Peter and John did — speaking to Jesus about the needs of your friends, colleagues… as you pray. And then with your example you will be able to say to them: Respice in nos! — look at me!

You might have thought occasionally, with holy envy, about the adolescent Apostle, John, quem diligebat Iesus — whom Jesus loved.

—Wouldn’t you like to deserve to be called “the one who loves the Will of God”? Then take the necessary steps, day after day.

How very insistent the Apostle Saint John was in preaching the mandatum novum, the new commandment that we should love one another!

—I would fall on my knees, without putting on any act — but this is what my heart dictates — and ask you, for the love of God, to love one another, to help one another, to lend one another a hand, to know how to forgive one another.

—And so, reject all pride, be compassionate, show charity; help each other with prayer and sincere friendship.

What a pleasure it is to contemplate John, leaning his head on Christ’s breast! —It is like giving up one’s intelligence lovingly, difficult though this is, to let it be set on fire by the flame of the Heart of Jesus.

I am convinced that John, the young Apostle, is at the side of Christ on the Cross because our Mother draws him there. The Love of Our Lady is so powerful!