I am trying to be holy, because then I’ll be useful for the Church. (…) I’m trying to follow Jesus faithfully, and I’m putting the array of those quiet, hidden, everyday virtues – hardly noticeable, yet exercised with great love – into the treasury of God’s Church, for the general benefit of souls. I have an inner feeling of being responsible for all souls; I know very well I’m living not only for my own sake, but for thewhole Church… (Diary 1505).