List of points

A person in love doesn’t miss the tiniest detail. I have seen it in so many souls. Those little things become something very great: Love!

“Love means deeds and not sweet words.” Deeds, deeds! And a resolution: I will continue to tell you very often that I love you. How often have I repeated this today! But, with your grace, it will be my behaviour above all that shows it. It will be the little things of each day which, with silent eloquence, will cry out before you, showing you my Love.

Even on those days when you seem to be wasting time, in the prose of the thousand details of the day there is more than enough poetry for you to feel that you are on the Cross: on a Cross which no one notices.

Correspondence to grace is to be found also in those very little things of each day, which seem unimportant and yet have the transcendence of Love.

If we join our own little things, those insignificant or big difficulties of ours, to the great sufferings of Our Lord, the Victim (He is the only Victim!), their value will increase. They will become a treasure, and then we will take up the Cross of Christ gladly and with style.

—And then every suffering will soon be overcome: nobody, nothing at all, will be able to take away our peace and our joy.

These are the characteristics that define the incomparable goodness of our holy Mother, Mary: a love taken to the extreme, fulfilling the Will of God with tender care; a complete forgetfulness of herself, for she is happy to be where God wants her to be.

—For this reason, not even the slightest gesture of hers is trivial. Learn from her.

The apostolate — which is a sure sign of spiritual life —means being constantly on the lookout so as to supernaturalise each detail of the day, whether big or small, by putting the love of God into everything one does.