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Along with devoted sons, I will also have the prodigals, and, far from the faithful flock, I will need to go after the lost sheep. These are the ones for whom it is said that the Good Shepherd must leave everything else to pursue them and bring them back to the fold.

It is certain that one cannot possibly purport to be fulfilling one’s solemn duty when one does not use all one’s resources and all one’s skills to learn a language which is the essential instrument of the apostolate.

My dear children, I order you to speak Kabyle and Arabic but never French; likewise, to avoid using interpreters with the local people, even if you have to endure embarrassments in the beginning.

In this way, everything would be conducted in an orderly and methodical manner, and in a spirit of obedience which would surely attract abundant blessings on the missionaries and their work.

You are in danger of going astray if you do not take as your top priority among all your preoccupations the practical means of maintaining and fostering the spiritual life within you. My dear Sons, if you are not men of God you will be men of the devil; and you will not be men of God if you forget your personal obligations, those imposed on you by your Rule, to Him.