” “An encouragement to never get tired but trustfully continue the task they have been entrusted with: it was sent this morning by the Pope in the Cathedral of Freising to priests and permanent deacons. The Pope chose not to read his text and mentioned a few points off the cuff. "Jesus’ main attitude", as it appears in several passages from the Gospel, "is one of underlying optimism, based on His trust in the power of the Father" and this "confidence of Jesus’ wrote the Pope in the text, that has been left to those presents to read becomes for us a reason to hope, considering His ability to see, behind the veil of appearances, the mysterious but irresistible action of the Father". The priest too "must let himself be permeated by this confidence in the force of the Grace, since he has been himself the ground that had needed to be first tilled by the divine Sower to be enabled to take the seed and let it grow until it could produce a full and ripe answer". The gradual assimilation of the Master’s feelings "will lead the priest to share His trustful glance" and, "by going deeper and deeper into Jesus’ thought", he will learn "how to look at the people that surround him as at ‘God’s harvest’, ready to be taken to the barns of Heaven".” “
