Understand and forgive others

We must do the same, my daughters and sons, since it is Christ’s own charity that impels us: caritas Christi urget nos (2 Cor 5:14). With the ever-new light of charity, with generous love for God and neighbour, we shall renew our desire to understand and forgive everyone. Seeing the Master’s example, we don’t regard ourselves as anyone’s enemy.

Sowing peace and love

We can summarise our attitude toward souls with St Paul’s heartfelt cry: Caritas mea cum omnibus vobis in Christo Iesu! (1 Cor 16:24), my love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Through charity we will sow peace and joy in the world, loving and defending the personal freedom of souls, the freedom which Christ respects and won for us.²

The Work of God was born to spread throughout the world the message of love and peace that our Lord left us, to invite all men and women to respect the rights of the person. I want my children to be formed to do this, and it is in fact what you do.

Unity of life

To your unity of life there should be joined a spontaneous magnanimity that is renewed each day. This magnanimity must be clearly seen and manifest itself in everything, so that, as faithful soldiers of Jesus Christ in the world, you offer yourselves as holocausts, truly saying: “Lord, in all sincerity, joyfully, have I dedicated myself, with everything that I have.”³