List of points

My God, teach me how to love! — My God, teach me how to pray!

We must ask God for faith, hope and charity, with humility, with persevering prayer, with upright behaviour and a clean life.

Try to make “intellectual humility” an axiom in your life.

Think about it carefully… Isn’t it true that it just doesn’t make sense to be “intellectually proud”? That saint and doctor of the Church put it very well when he said: “It is a detestable disorder for a man to see God become a little child, and yet still want to appear great in this world.”

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.

Since you feel you have been chosen by God to support and co-redeem — without forgetting that you are… wretched and utterly so — your humility should lead you to place yourself under the feet — at the service — of all. This is what the supports of a building do.

But foundations need to be strong. Fortitude is an indispensable virtue for someone who has to sustain or encourage others.

—Say this to Jesus and say it to him strongly: May I never through false humility stop practising the cardinal virtue of fortitude. Make me know how to separate, my God, the gold from the dross.

Pride dulls the edge of charity. Ask Our Lord each day for the virtue of humility, for you and for everyone. Because as the years go by, pride increases if it is not corrected in time.

If you walk in the world on all fours, how can you be surprised if other people are not angels?

Tell him slowly: Good Jesus, if I am to be an apostle, and an apostle of apostles, you have to make me very humble.

May I know myself. May I know myself and know you.

—Then I will never lose sight of my nothingness.