Teach such as these who pray abundantly, often idolatrously, to practise, besides the prayers which are prescribed, the mystic prayer as well, in which is the purest faith, the most perfect hope, the most perfect charity, which in itself purifies the soul and purifies life.

Do I tell you to take, publicly, the place of the pastors?
No; let each one work in his own family, each one among his own friends, and those who can, with the pen.

Thus you will till the soil from which the pastors arise.

My sons, I do not promise you that you will renew the world.

You will labour in the night-time, without visible gain, like Peter and his companions on the Sea of Galilee.