Part two
THE FOUNDER OF A FAMILY (1948-1963)

“ Whoever remains in Me and I in Him will bear much fruit ” (Jn 15:5)

“ THERE was another time when we discovered the great rent in the world between the friends and the enemies of God, of the God of Jesus Christ, of His immaculate Mother, of His Church. Fortunately, I reacted to it in the same way as did those whom I loved the most and the best : I conceived adult life as that of a missionary sent into the other camp to preach there the Truth, the Life, the sacred Way to our Paradise. This was already a grace, not to have been deeply troubled by succeeding so little and, instead of despairing, to suffer with Jesus and Mary in seeing that ‘ Love is not loved. ’ ”

“ Then came the dreadful discovery : that of the attacks against our Mother Church and against her faith in Christ, by renegades still living among us, very close to us, and yet impervious to our burning exhortations… ”

(G. de Nantes, meditation of February 11, 1999)

• 9. Here we are, Lord...
• 10. Amicus
• 11. The first disciples
• 12. The project of a foundation
• 13. Parish priest of Villemaur
• 14. The forecast of the storm