List of points

My child, it’s worth your while being humble, obedient, loyal. Drench yourself in the spirit of God, to carry it from where you are, from your place of work, to all the peoples that fill the earth!

Work always and in everything with sacrifice, to put Christ at the summit of all human activities.

Since all honest professions can and ought to be sanctified, no child of God has the right to say: I can’t do apostolate.

I often feel like shouting in the ears of so many men and women in offices and shops, in the world of the media and in the law courts, in schools, on the factory floor, in mines and on farms, and telling them that, with the backing of an interior life and by means of the Communion of Saints, they ought to be bringing God into all these different environments, according to that teaching of the Apostle: “Glorify God with your life and carry him always with you. by making your bodies the shrines of his presence.”

As well as having given you abundant and effective grace, the Lord has given you a brain, a pair of hands and intellectual powers so that your talents may yield fruit.

God wants to work miracles all the time — to raise the dead, make the deaf hear, restore sight to the blind, enable the lame to walk… — through your sanctified professional work, which you will have turned into a holocaust that is both pleasing to God and useful to souls.