Dealings with God lead to perseverance

Without this faithful relationship with our Father God, to which we are called by our very vocation, I can assure you that it is very difficult to persevere in Opus Dei. That is why, whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ (Col 3:23-24).

Apostolic effectiveness

With this unity of life, with this urge for contemplation in the middle of the world – in the middle of the street, in the open air, in the sun and the rain – not only will you be driven by a desire to keep working at your temporal task and not distance yourselves from earthly realities, but you will be spurred on by your apostolic zeal to enter all those secular realities courageously, in order to reveal the divine demands that they contain. You will teach others that the fraternity of God’s children is the great solution on offer for the world’s problems, because human fraternity has a supernatural meaning. You will draw people out of the shell of their selfishness. At the same time, to those who seem somehow lost in the crowd, you will guarantee the personality and true freedom that they need: qua libertate Christus nos liberavit.²³ In short, you will open up the divine paths of the earth to all men and women.