Many are doing the same work in the Church for which you are preparing yourselves, through the moral preparations I have prescribed for you; I mean the work of purifying the faith, and imbuing life with the purified faith.

Honour them and learn from them, but do not allow them to become members of your union unless they come to you of their own free will, and pour their superfluity into the common fund.

This shall be the sign that they are sent unto you by God." Here Benedetto paused, and gently begged Giovanni Selva to come nearer.
"I wish to see you," he said.

"What I have said and, above all, what I am going to say, was born of you." He stretched out his hand, and taking Don Clemente's hand, he added: "The Father knows it.

Each should feel God's presence within himself, but each should feel it also in the other, and I feel it so strongly in you.