Age and novelty of the Work

Our spirit is like that, as I have always written to you: as old as the Gospel, and, like the Gospel, new. The very nature of our vocation, our way of seeking sanctity and working for the Kingdom of God, makes us speak of divine things in the same language as other people use, to have the same healthy social customs as they have, and to share the same honest mentality. It makes us see God, I would say, from the same secular and lay perspective from which they approach, or can approach, life’s transcendental problems: never being an icy model, that can be admired, but not loved.

We have not come to revolutionise anything

We come, then, in a youthful spirit, to reap the Gospel’s treasures, so as to take them to all the corners of the earth. But we do not come to revolutionise anything. We drink the good, well-aged wine of authentic Catholic doctrine, respecting and loving everything God has inspired in the service of his Holy Church down through the centuries.