Virtues, Christian Qualities, and Human Qualities

Do you know the Law well enough and its ten commandments? And you, too, boy? In that case you know enough. If you faithfully practise what God commanded, you will be holy.

• Commandments
• Holiness
• Loyalty
• Saints and blessed
• Word of God - Law of God
• Words of wisdom

Do not complain of being far from the world. That will preserve you from much corruption. And God is not far from you, but closer in that solitude, where you can hear His voice in the winds, which He created, in the herbs and in the water, whereas you would not hear it among men.

• Corruption
• Creation
• Creation - Flore
• Creation - Lakes - Seas and oceans
• God's omnipresence
• Loneliness - Isolation
• Words of wisdom
• World

Your flock teaches you a great virtue, or rather, many great virtues. It is meek and obedient. It is satisfied with little and grateful for what it has. It loves and knows those who take care of it and love it. Do likewise saying: “God is our Shepherd and we are His sheep. He watches us. He protects us and grants us not what is the source of vice, but what is necessary to live”. And keep wolves away from your hearts. Wicked men are wolves: they seduce you and incite you to evil actions by Satan’s order and it is Satan himself who induces you to sin so that he may tear you to pieces.

• Continence
• Detachment - Counting
• Eternity - Eternal life
• God's goodness
• God's omnipresence
• Good Shepherd - Bon Pasteur
• Gratitude - Recognition
• Life
• Love
• Obedience
• Softness
• Vice
• Virtues

Keep wolves away from your hearts. Wicked men are wolves: they seduce you and incite you to evil actions by Satan’s order and it is Satan himself who induces you to sin so that he may tear you to pieces. Be watchful.

• Acts - Actions
• Discernment
• Sin
• Temptation
• Vigilance
• Words of wisdom

That is how Satan behaves. He watches you to find out your weak points, he roams about you, he seems harmless and absent, concerned with something else whereas he is watching you, and then he suddenly leaps to induce you to sin, and sometimes he is successful.

But close to you there is a doctor and a compassionate spirit. God and your angel. If you are wounded, if you have been taken ill, do not go away from them, as a dog which has become rabid does. On the contrary, while weeping shout to them: “Help!”. God forgives those who repent and your angel is ready to implore God with you and for you.

• Fishermen
• God's mercy and forgiveness
• Guardian angel
• Illness - Disability - Handicap
• Jesus Christ's words to a sinner
• Pain and suffering
• Repentance and contrition
• Sin
• Tears - Crying
• Weakness

Love one another and love this boy. Each of you must feel as if he were somehow the father of the orphan. The presence of a child amongst you should influence every action of yours through the holy restraint of respect for a child. And let your company make up for what death deprived him of. We must love our neighbour. This boy is the neighbour entrusted to you by God in a special manner. Teach him to be good, a faithful believer, honest and free from vices. He is worth much more than one of these sheep. Now, if you take care of the sheep because they belong to their owner, who would punish you if you should let them perish, how much more care you must take of this soul which God entrusts to you for Himself and for his dead father. His situation as an orphan is a sad one indeed. Do not make it more painful by taking advantage of him and vexing him because he is only a youngster. Remember that God sees the deeds and tears of every man and takes everything into account, in order to reward or punish.

And you, My boy, remember that you are never alone. God sees you and so does the spirit of your father. When something upsets you and induces you to do wrong, say: “No, I do not want to be an orphan forever and ever”. You would be, if you damned your soul by sinning.

• Children - Innocents
• Children of God - Sons of God
• Death
• Love of neighbor
• Man - God's creature
• Orphans

The presence of a child amongst you should influence every action of yours through the holy restraint of respect for a child.

• Acts - Actions
• Words of wisdom

This boy is the neighbour entrusted to you by God in a special manner. Teach him to be good, a faithful believer, honest and free from vices.

• Family
• Parents and children
• Words of wisdom

Remember that God sees the deeds and tears of every man and takes everything into account, in order to reward or punish.

• Acts - Actions
• God's justice
• God's omniscience
• Pain and suffering
• Punishment
• Reward
• Tears - Crying
• Words of wisdom

My boy, remember that you are never alone. God sees you and so does the spirit of your father. When something upsets you and induces you to do wrong, say: “No, I do not want to be an orphan forever and ever”. You would be, if you damned your soul by sinning.

• Damnation - Perdition - Hell and the damned
• Disorder
• Fighting temptation
• Loneliness - Isolation
• Mal
• Orphans
• Sin
• Temptation
• Words of wisdom