I hope that you will all live in peace in order to advance in virtue, lighten each other’s burdens, and be a consolation to one another in your heavy labors.

I hope that if we are faithful to God, His blessings will be multiplied for everyone in general and for each one in particular.

I hope that God in his goodness will draw strength from these weaknesses and His glory from our miseries.

I hope Our Lord will look upon the little we have attempted to do as proceeding from charity.

I cannot tell you how much the poor have need of your living a long time.

I cannot tell you how much alms have diminished here and the difficulty of finding any loans. Everyone is being affected by the misery of the age.

I cannot restrain myself and must tell you quite simply that this gives me renewed, greater desires to be able, in the midst of my petty infirmities, to go and finish my life near a bush, working in some village. I think I would be very happy to do so, if God were pleased to grant me this grace.

I can only be deeply grieved by the intense sufferings of the poor slaves and by my inability to procure some relief for them; may it please God to have pity on them.

I call evil all those inclinations that turn us aside from the obligations of our vocation.

I Beg Our Lord to reward you and to increase His love in you.

I beg Our Lord to bind all of us together in His pure love, so that together we may love Him uniquely, strongly, and eternally.

I ask the Holy Spirit, who is nothing if not love, and who is the sacred bond of the Father and the Son, to be the soul of your leadership and the gentleness of yours words and actions.

I ask Our Lord, whom you serve so effectively, to be Himself your strength so that you may sustain with vigor and merit the exterior and interior trials you are undergoing and receive the reward promised to those who persevere. This reward is so precious that, in comparison, the suffering of this life seemed to the saints to be only diversions.

I ask Our Lord to redouble your strength, to sustain you with the essence of His Spirit, to gladden you with the hope of His glory and the success of your work, and to fill the family with peace and confidence in His divine guidance.

I ask Our Lord to grant us the grace of considering matters as they are in God and not as they appear apart from Him; otherwise we might deceive ourselves and act other than He wishes.

I ask Our Lord to give you a share of His humility and patience to overcome your difficulties.

I ask Our Lord to continue to grant you His graces and to increase them so that you may go on growing from strength to strength.

I ask Our Lord to be your wisdom and your governance so that all will go well with you and by you, in accord with whatever God may ask.

I ask Our Lord to be your light and strength in all the events of this life.

I ask Our Lord to be your first and second assistant in the mother missions you are going to undertake.

I ask Our Lord to be the Spirit of your spirit and the strength of your arm in order to destroy ignorance and sin, two monsters in God’s Church.

I ask Our Lord to animate all of you with His Spirit so that you may constantly do works that are pleasing to God and useful to His Church.

I ask Our Lord that this new year may be a happy one you for eternity and be followed by many other similar ones that will lead you to God, our last end.

I ask Our Lord that this new year may be a happy one for you for eternity and be followed by many other similar ones that will lead you to God, our last end.

I ask Our Lord in his goodness to deign to animate you with His true Spirit, so that everything you do and say may be to render Him the service He expects of you.

I ask God to give you a twofold share of His Spirit: the first share to unite you to Him, to act in His holy presence and for love of Him; and the other, for the guidance of the souls entrusted to you.

I ask God to be your strength so that you make walk to the end of the path He has marked out for you to your last end, which is God.

I ask God to be Himself the bond of your souls; for in this case nothing will be able to disturb you, Your work will be lighter, your conversations holier, and you and your spiritual exercises more pleasing to God. In a word, your Little Company will be like a little paradise, diffusing a sweet perfume within and outside of it.

I ask God that we may apply ourselves constantly to divine matters and the salvation of our neighbor.

I ask God also to see fit to remedy the needs of your poor suffering Church now being tried by sickness and poverty.