Dear Laborers for the Lord,

    In the first place and with all my heart, I thank God who in His mercy has chosen and called you. God sent you as workers into his harvest that through your ministry faith may be preserved and love may grow among the sheep of Christ and that those who are still to be led into his chosen flock may be disposed to receive the gift of faith.

    Therefore, rejoice in the Lord; again I say, rejoice. For, as you have been chosen and called to accomplish God’s work, so God gave you all graces and faith activated by love, so that in all things you may be found faithful servants of Christ.

    Thus, through the mercy of God and the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, you will bear fruit, and your fruit will remain as God wills it. But to be found faithful, one should not wrap the talents one has received in a cloth nor hide them but one should use them for the benefit of one’s soul and for gaining even more for the salvation of others.

    All who are called and chosen have received from the Lord talents in a measure according to their election and holy vocation. But not all are found faithful in using them and among them all there are but few who by their fidelity have gained more talents.

    Therefore, let us take heed that through the mercy of our God and the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ we may become faithful in all things according to God’s will. It is our task to cooperate in the spreading of the Gospel with the power of God who redeemed us and gave us our holy vocation, not according to our deeds, but according to God’s great mercy and the grace given us in Jesus Christ. And as he is the first-born among many, we should become like Him in all things....

    In this way during all the days of our lives up to the end, in all our works, justice may shine forth more and more before all, so that they may glorify our Father in heaven.

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