List of points

There is an enemy of the interior life which is both little and silly. Unfortunately, it can be very effective. It is the neglect of effort in one’s examination of conscience.

Calmly, without scruples, you should think about your life, and ask forgiveness, and make a firm, specific and well-defined resolution to improve in one point and another: in that small detail which you find hard, and in that other one which usually you don’t carry out as you should, and you know it.

“Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation…” It makes one shudder to see how someone can give up a divine undertaking for the sake of a fleeting delusion!

How well I understand that question put by a soul in love with God: “Have I made any grimace of distaste, has there been anything in me which could, my Lord, my Love, have hurt you?”

—Ask your Father-God to grant us that constant requirement to love.

Do trifles and trivialities, that bring me nothing and from which I expect nothing, engage my attention more than my God? Who am I with, when I am not with God?

Your aim should be that there be many souls in the midst of the world who love God with all their heart.

—It’s time to do your sums: how many souls have you helped to discover that Love?

That cry of the Son of God, lamenting that the harvest is plentiful but the labourers are few, is always relevant. How it tears at our heartstrings.

—That cry came from Christ’s mouth for you to hear too. How have you responded to it up to now? Do you pray at least daily for that intention ?

Sincerely examine the way you are following the Master. Consider whether you might have given yourself in a dry, official way, with a faith that has no sparkle to it; if there is no humility or sacrifice, nor daily work; if you are all façade and pay no attention to the details of each moment… In a word, if you lack Love.

If this is the case, your ineffectiveness should come as no surprise to you. React right away, and be led by the hand of Our Lady.