Kategoria: CML200

I have the honour to inform Your Eminence of my intention to establish a small noviciate of the Society of the Missionaries of Algiers in the diocese of Malines.

My dear children, we are all very grateful to you for all you are doing for the enterprise. The Society will never forget you and neither will I. By experience, I know all that fundraising can cause in terms of hardship, worry, and humiliations and I can but thank you all the more for your determination.

We cannot understand how, finding themselves solely among Negroes, they have not begun to speak to them about God and teach them the precepts of Christian morality.

Unnecessary visits should be avoided, whether to Cardinals, prelates or religious communities. Such visits can only lead to a loss of interior spirit, even of esteem, and get our missionaries involved in gossip, and consequently in divisions and hatreds that we must absolutely avoid.

I am very concerned about general events and feel the double fatigue of my occupations and my preoccupations, but I humbly and confidently place myself in the hands of God, for whom alone you and I are bound to act in our capacity as superiors.