Jesus, you are present in the tabernacle and you pray to the Father. I do not come to disturb you. I come to join my presence with your presence. I am connected with the members of the scattered people who work for your kingdom, I come with the mission to gather them. I will explore the horizon and gradually present to you the human communities I know, nations, and individual souls? Or will I pray without naming those entrusted to me, and simply bow to you, asking you and loving you for all together: for them and for myself? For a long time, I have been in the habit of saying all these names to you, but it does not matter at all. My task is to follow the movement of the moment, for the effect will always be the same. When I am in prayer connected with God, then those to whom I am bound through representation are also connected with God. The mystical body thus joins with you and I am through the representation I perform for you, its heart.
(Father Jerome /1907–1985/, monk of the Trappist monastery at Sept-Fons,
Suite sur la très noble vertu de religion)
