Ask Our Lord for the grace of perfect charity and the spirit of humility that causes us to acknowledge that others are better than we and we are worse than demons (VII:79).

Let us finish what we have begun and our Lord will help us (VII:71).

You are right in having no scruples about missing Mass to assist the poor, for God prefers mercy to sacrifice (VII:66).

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 (VII:58).

May God be pleased to water these new plants and raise on this foundation the edifice of this good work so that gradually it will be able to supply a large number of good workers for the Church of God, especially for all of Italy (VII:55).

Seminarians are the treasure of the Church, which God has entrusted to you (VII:44).

Things will be as God so chooses (VII:38).

We continue to ask God to complete the work of restoring the Congregation to its pristine glory and, above all, to give it peace (VII:36).

Continue always to be a consolation and relief to everyone for the love of Our Lord; by this means you will make yourself very pleasing to Him (VII:31).

Perhaps Our Lord has permitted these causes of repugnance in order to preach to yourself and to protect you from the empty satisfactions we imperceptibly seek in our work (VII:21).