List of points

When you start out each day to work by Christ’s side and to look after all those souls who seek him, remember that there is only one way of doing it: we must turn to the Lord.

—Only in prayer, and through prayer, do we learn to serve others!

To pray is the way to keep all the evils we suffer in check.

Charity succeeds always. Without charity nothing can be done.

Love, then, is the secret of your life… Do love! Suffer gladly. Toughen up your soul. Invigorate your will. Make sure that you surrender yourself to God’s will, and efficacy will follow.

An apostle who does not pray regularly and methodically will necessarily fall into lukewarmness… and he will then cease to be an apostle.

In your personal prayer, whenever you experience the weakness of the flesh you should repeat: Lord, give the Cross to this poor body of mine, which gets tired and rebellious!

Be filled with faith and rest assured! The Lord tells us this through the prophet Jeremiah: orabitis me, et ego exaudiam vos — whenever you call upon me, whenever you pray!, I will listen to you.

Whenever you pray, make the effort to have the kind of faith of those sick people we read about in the Gospel. You can be sure Jesus is listening to you.

The system, the method, the procedure, the only way to have a life abundant and fertile in supernatural fruits, is to follow the Holy Spirit’s advice, which comes to us via the Acts of the Apostles: omnes erant perseverantes unanimiter in oratione — all these with one accord devoted themselves to prayer.

—Nothing can be done without prayer!

To draw closer to God, to fly all the way to God, you need the strong and generous wings of Prayer and Expiation.

Prayer is the most powerful weapon a Christian has. Prayer makes us effective. Prayer makes us happy. Prayer gives us all the strength we need to fulfil God’s commands.

—Yes!, your whole life can and should be prayer.

All Christians should seek Christ and get to know him, so as to love him better and better. It’s like courting. A couple need to get to know each other well, for if they don’t, they will not really love each other. And our life is a life of Love.

Saint Teresa assures us that “anyone who doesn’t pray doesn’t need any devil to tempt him; while whoever prays, even if only for a quarter of an hour each day, will necessarily be saved.” This is because our conversation with Our Lord — who is so loving, even in times of difficulty or dryness of soul —enables us to see things in their proper perspective and discover the true proportions of life.

Be a soul of prayer.