December 5, 1903
✞ How the holy desire to receive Jesus makes up for the Sacrament, in such a way that the soul breathes God, and God breathes the soul.
Volume 6 — Entry 9
May Jesus Christ be praised
Children, live in charity, be humble and pure, live in love.
My beloved children, I ask you again for prayer, prayer for my favored sons. Children, when a priest errs and falls he is like a roar that resounds over the whole earth, and in his fall he takes many with him; when a priest does good he is like a pin falling to the ground, almost nobody hears him, but with his actions he can be an example to many. This, my children, is why I often ask you to pray for them, to be fervent and constant in prayer for my beloved and chosen sons; their falling tears my heart, scourges my back: they pierce my soul.