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All this, my daughters and sons, doesn’t matter. I have paused to speak about these difficulties only because considering them helps us, by contrast, to define the characteristics of our spirit more clearly. For the rest, pray with filial trust in our Father God, forgive everyone, and wait.

When heaven judges that the time has come, it will cause us to open up, within the Church’s organised apostolate, the channel along which the Work, that great river, should flow, though at present it does not yet have any suitable place to settle in. It will be an arduous, painful, hard task. Many obstacles will have to be overcome, but the Lord will help us, for everything in his Work is his Will.

Pray. Live in union with my continual prayer: Domine, Deus salutis meae: inclina aurem tuam ad precem meam (Ps 88[87]:2-3). Say with me: Lord God our Saviour, hear our prayer. Never lack the deep conviction that the waters will pass through the mountains: inter medium montium pertransibunt aquae (Ps 104[103]:10). These are divine words: the waters will pass through.

In the meantime, continue on our way

In the meantime, make a resolution to put into practice, as I did, the invitation I recently received anew in Burjasot, during a few days of preaching to a group of university students – some of you are already my children – who were preparing to improve their Christian life. Over a door, I was happy to re-read the inscription: “Let each wayfarer follow his own path.” This is what we have to do, to strive ever more earnestly to learn all about the specific path to which God our Lord has brought us, and to follow it faithfully.

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