List of points

What the flesh lost, the flesh should pay back: be generous in your penance.

Being at Calvary, where Jesus died, the experience of our own sins should move us to be sorry, to make a deeper and more mature decision not to offend him again.

You have reached a level of real intimacy with this God of ours, who is so close to you, so deeply lodged in your soul… But what are you doing to increase and deepen this intimacy? Are you careful not to allow silly little hindrances to creep in which would upset this friendship?

—Show courage! Don’t refuse to break with every single thing, no matter how small, which could cause suffering to the One who loves you so much.

Aquae multae non potuerunt exstinguere caritatem!! — the great turmoil of waters could not quench the fire of charity. —I offer you two interpretations of these words of Holy Scripture. —First: the throng of your past sins, now that you have fully repented of them, will not take you away from the Love of our God; and a second one: the waters of misunderstanding, the difficulties that you are perhaps encountering, should not interrupt your apostolic work.

Violent persecution had broken out. And that priest prayed: Jesus, may every sacrilegious fire increase in me the fire of Love and Reparation.