Asking for good Missioners

Lord, send Your Church good workers, but they should be really good ones; send good Missioners, men such as they should be, to work hard in Your vineyard; persons, my God, truly detached from themselves, their own ease, and worldly goods; they can be a smaller number, provided they’re good. Grant Your Church this grace, Lord. Put in me all the conditions You desire in Your disciples, such as that of having no attachment to worldly goods. (18 October 1656; SV XI, 321-322)