The Church is compared
to
a great harvest that requires workers, but hard working ones.
Nothing
is more in conformity with the Gospel than to gather light
and strength for our soul in meditation, reading, and solitude on the
one hand, and then to go out and share this spiritual nourishment
with others. This is to do as Our Lord did and His Apostles after
Him; it's to unite the office of Martha to that of Mary and to
imitate the dove, which half digests the food it has eaten and then
uses its beak to put
the rest in to that of its babies in order to
feed them. That's what we should do, that's how we should witness to
God by our works that we love Him. Totum opus nostrum in operatione
consistit. (SV XI, 33)
