The call to the Work is for all the faithful

The paths of divine mercy are numerous, as you well know from personal experience. People of all nations, races and languages, young and old, single and married, healthy and sick, should come to the Work, each taking the place assigned to them by God’s Will, each taking the opportunity – the very special grace – offered them by Our Lord’s goodness.

We live like the first Christians

Thinking of this path that savours of early Christianity, which God has raised up in order to renew the miracles of grace in the lives of so many souls in such an admirably simple way, I rejoice to reread slowly what St Justin wrote, marvelling, like him, at the astonishing power of the Gospel.

“We who once indulged in fornication,” he says, “now embrace chastity alone. We who used magic arts, are now consecrated to the good and unbegotten God. We who loved above all else to acquire money and possessions, now put in common even what we have, and share it with those who need it. We who hated and wounded one another, and, separated by different ways of life, would not share our homes with people of a different race, now, after the coming of Christ, all live together, and pray for our enemies, and try to persuade those who hate us unjustly, so that, by living according to the beautiful precepts of Christ, they too may have good hope of attaining, together with us, the same reward that we hope for from God the ruler of all.”³⁶