Without subterfuge or search for human glory

That is the mission that the Work has set out to fulfil directly, generously, sincerely, without subterfuge or human patronage; without, for example, continually leaping around in search of the warmest sun or the richest and most attractive flower. The sun is within us, and the apostolate is carried out, as it should be, in the open, and is addressed to all.

The need to reach the whole world

In these years of beginnings, I am filled with deep gratitude to God. And at the same time, my children, I think of how much ground remains to be covered until the Catholic and universal seed which the Work has come to scatter is sown in all nations, throughout the world, in all spheres of human activity.

That is why I continue to rely on everyone’s prayer, mortification, daily work and cheerfulness, while at the same time constantly renewing my trust in the Lord: universi, qui sustinent te, non confundentur (Ps 25[24]:3): none of those who place their hope in God will be confounded.