Showing everyone the way to perfection by the example of personal work well done

We have to show people this simple path to holiness, which is offered to everyone with the magnificent simplicity of divine realities. And we will do so effectively, if we try to begin preaching this doctrine through the living example of our own intense work, done with a desire for perfection – with the greatest human perfection possible, with the perfection required by what is to be offered to God.

If we practise our own profession in this way, if we carry out our own tasks in the middle of the world – the work or munus we each have, which is well known to all – people will learn from us that it is quite possible, in the normal circumstances of ordinary life, to fulfil in their souls the command which the Lord addressed to everyone: estote ergo vos perfecti, sicut et Pater vester caelestis perfectus est (Matt 5:48); be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Unity of life

Fulfilling God’s will in our work, contemplating God in our work, working for love of God and our neighbour, making our work into a means of apostolate, giving divine value to human things: this is the simple, strong unity of life we must have, and must teach others.