George Matulaitis Journal

50 would even surpass them in making use of these gifts as effectively as possible, he could then attract others to God and to the Church. Therefore, we should never begrudge either the time, personnel, or funds to train and educate those whom Providence may send us so that they will be well prepared for useful work in the Church and society. For the time being, it is better to let some fields lie fallow here and there than to send out unprepared and insufficiently trained people. It is better to have fewer workers, but true and good ones, who will do the work properly so that it need not be done over again. In this respect superiors must have enough wisdom and patience when they see vast fields lying barren and untilled, when they contemplate how much there is to do and how few workers there are, not to send out untrained and unprepared workers prematurely. They must be patient and wait until their charges are fully mature and ready for the task. There will never be a lack of work: vast fields still lie uncultivated, and even those that are being tilled are full of weeds and brambles. And even the necessary funds will not be hard to raise—God provides for those who truly serve Him—if only we have good, capable people. And so, we must make every effort to form, teach, and train the people we need. Then, when they have been assigned to their mission, we must see that they have time to continue both their spiritual and their professional development. The principle of perfection should be the universal principle of our life. It not only applies to our personal and to our spiritual life and its development, but also to our professional and apostolic life, to everything we do to serve the Church. May Christ Himself be our example, for He did all things well (cf., Mk 7:37).We should be careful not to jump into any task too soon, but once we have undertaken something, let us try to do it as well as we can. Grant, Lord, that having renounced myself completely, I may become totally immersed in You and Your holy will. I feel strongly that a person can attain the true freedom of the children of God only when he has discarded the old skin of self-love and covered himself with the garment of the Spirit of Christ and of His grace. When a person has truly renounced himself, the world, and the evil spirit, then can he begin to enter into and immerse himself in God. When in spirit he has discarded his own corrupt body and his tiny earthly abode, then can he rise up to