Internal and external humility, more internal than external, more vivid than shown; deeper than visible.

February 7

 Aim, therefore, responded generously [to God's special love for you], making it worth it, that is, like him in the adorable perfections already mentioned in the Scriptures and the Gospel, and that you have learned and . But, my brother: in order to give this imitation, it is necessary to continued reflection and meditation on the life of reflection and meditation comes the esteem of his acts, and esteem, desire and commitment of imitation. All this is provided by our laws. Keep us steadfast in exact compliance therewith and be perfect.
Above all you have to insist on what is the basis of Christian holiness and the foundation of goodness: in virtue of which our Divine Master and our Seraphic Father there are proposed as models I am referring to humility. Internal and external humility, more internal than external, more vivid than shown; deeper than visible.

 (August 19, 1918, to Brother Gerardo de Deliceto - Letters. IV, p. 25)

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