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He later says:
“Nothing entirely. With boundless charity and skillful prudence you must receive all. To shut oneself away would intensify curiosity. Rejection would be a lack of charity. I told you, ‘You will be the city sought out.’ Not all come with an honest purpose? What of it? You are prudent, and that’s enough. Are you afraid you will waste time? And who is the master of time? I am. So? Come on, then, without fear, without restlessness, without impatience. Do you see how often I had to change my program? And it was I.... Peace, peace and charity with all. And then prudence in the third place, and that’s all.”
I’ll explain to you in person what originated this little lesson.14
14 We pass over fifty-six handwritten pages (February 13-19, 1945) containing six episodes found in The First Year of the Public Life.