List of points

A sick man is brought to Jesus, who looks at him. — Contemplate the scene closely and meditate on his words: confide, fili — take heart, my son.

This is what Our Lord says to you when you feel the weight of your errors. Have faith! In the first place: faith. And then allow yourself to be carried like the paralytic did: with interior and submissive obedience!

Spiritual direction. Don’t object to someone poking at your soul with supernatural sense and holy shamelessness to check how true it is that you are able — and willing — to give glory to God.

Nowadays the world we live in is full of disobedience and gossip, of intrigue and conspiracy. So, more than ever we have to love obedience, sincerity, loyalty and simplicity: and all this with a supernatural outlook, which will make us more human.

How difficult it is to live humility! As the popular wisdom of Christianity says, “Pride dies twenty-four hours after its owner.”

So when you think you’re right, against what you are being told by someone who has been given a special grace from God to guide your soul, be sure that you are completely wrong.