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You will be the fathers of these children, whose fathers are no more; you will receive them into your modest dwellings and feed them from your work. You will share with them your daily bread and especially bread for the soul, i.e., the lessons and examples of virtue. Sometimes, in addition, the elderly see their hopes unfulfilled at end of their careers.

The power of virtue and religious discipline.
You and I, especially I, are nothing and the burden of our sins and our wretchedness warns us sufficiently that we must never be proud of being effective for God’s work. However, when I think of the past, when I see what poor weak men like us have achieved in the world by the power of virtue and religious discipline, I cannot avoid thinking that if you imitate their example, you will receive similar blessings.

Is that how you understand your role as procurator, when it is a question of the lives of your confreres and of the Christians, and of the very existence of the missions?