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To Inflame the Heart of My Neighbor

st-nicdes-champs-pbrisseOur founder’s wish, expressed in one of his last conferences to his missionaries:

“Our vocation is to go not into one parish, nor into only one diocese, but throughout the earth. And to do what? To inflame the hearts of men. It is not enough for me to love God if my neighbor does not love him as well.” (May 30, 1659 – SV 12: 262)

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