Learning and living our spirit

I am going to finish, my children. I said at the beginning of this letter that I just wanted to remind you about a few aspects of the sincere, simple spirit which the Lord, infinite Goodness, who remedies the littleness of the instruments he uses, has given me for you. Our Father God wants you to learn this spirit thoroughly; he wants us to make it deeply our own, to live by it.

From the life of the Work, the juridical channel will be born

In due course that life, the life of the Work, will open up the necessary channel sanctioned by canon law, which we confidently await. Plants, like Opus Dei, that have to break through the ground, have to open up their own way, with the gentle forcefulness of life, protected by the care and attentiveness of the gardener – and we have a Divine Gardener – who feeds their roots, and ensures that they grow as they should, in the fresh air and sunlight.