Characteristics of our service

Let us close this parenthesis, however, because I don’t want to make this Letter too long, and I still have some considerations to make about some of the characteristics of our service to God and to souls.

Secular work, with fellow citizens

The first thing I wish to point out to you – even though you’ve heard me say this lots of times – is that our task, my beloved daughters and sons, is a lay, secular work of ordinary citizens, just the same as everybody else, not just like everybody else, who seek their holiness and do apostolate, in and from the professional undertakings they carry out in the middle of the world.

Even if some do not understand

No one would dare to state that laypeople are incapable of Christianising their daily activities. But, at the same time, some people are incapable of understanding those who are trying to put into practice this simple, natural and divine way of sanctifying themselves and of working apostolically.