LETTER I.
To all the Faithful of Christ
Let us love God, and let us adore Him with a pure heart and a pure mind. To all Christians, religious, priests, laymen, and women, and to all who dwell in the world.
Oh, how blessed and happy are they who love God, and who act as Our Lord commands in the Gospel : ‘ Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and thy neighbour as thyself.’ Let us therefore love God, and adore Him with a pure heart and mind, for this is what He seeks above all things when He says : ‘The true adorers shall adore God the Father in spirit and in truth.’ All who adore Him ought to adore Him in spirit and truth. Farewell in the “Lord.