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It will be the fulfilment of the saying of Saint Paul: « Momentaneum et leve tribulationis nostrae, aeternum gloriae pondus operatur in nobis. » Yes, if you are departing in the fullness of vigour, of youth, of hope, and if you are leaving everything behind, it is because your faith gives you the assurance of the reward to come, and this reward deserves to be bought by the pains of a day.

The first among the Catholic apostles of this time, they have arrived on the shores of the Great Lakes in the interior [of the African Continent] from which the Nile and the Congo take their source. They had already shown their courage by inundating with their blood the arid sands of the Sahara.

This good and holy priest has shown me that he considers this second noviciate to be of great importance to the missionaries after the first years of their external apostolate.