Why are the Word of God, the eucharist, and the poor fundamental for the follow-up of Christ

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PSDP, according to St. John Calabria?

The word of God is not like the word of man that changes when the time passes. The word of
God conserves always the first value and meaning; we need only to put it into practice (letter
page 276). Every word of God is, let me use this expression, consecratory, sacramental: does
what it says (letter page 383).

The eucharist, the holy mass, prayer, devotion to the Blessed Mary, charity and the spirit of
faith, to see in all the image of God, to give good example we must begin right from here. To
give we must first have, and we must live to make others live. Let’s live Christ and his gospel
and we shall communicate it to others (letter page 235). I urge you then the practice of piety
and I recommend to you a special devotion for the holy eucharist. Oh yes! To Jesus, we have in
our house; let us tell everything, and literally everything (letter page 1). Dear brothers on
bended knees I implore you to support the glory of God and the good of souls, being indifferent
to places and tasks like the eucharistic Jesus who does not consider the different places. He
goes everywhere in order to help, to comfort, to heal souls and to nourish them with his blood.
Oh, how much we need priests who are living hosts, all dedicated to God, to souls, in a
continuous zeal, in a continuous sacrifice! Oh yes, so we can enjoy and anticipate paradise in
the middle of pains! Blessed are we if we are so and we have to be so because we breathe
continuously graces from God! (Letter page 84).

Love and look for souls and take care to favour the poorest, the most abandoned, the most
disdained, because all these souls are the dearest ones to Jesus (letter page 93). Humility and
concealment, oh my dearest ones, and love for the poor, the abandoned that the providence
has assigned to us is our field of work and they are the privileged ones of God (letter page
112). Brothers, we have a great mission to accomplish. God gives us so that we too give to
others. The poor, the sick, the spiritually dead are many. With the grace of God let us cure,
comfort and give rise to them (letter page 7). A true Christian does not think only of himself, he
raises his eyes also to look at others, in all he sees God’s children and brothers in Christ. He
prays for all to fulfil the promise of Jesus, “that all may become one sheepfold under one single
shepherd (letter page 230).
 The only method both old and new to convert souls is the method used by Jesus
himself and by the first Apostles and all the holy evangelizers: the prayer.
It is like the saliva used by Jesus to shape the mud he cured the blind – born with.
The marvellous history of all saints, who performed their social vocation, does not
find any other explanation except in their piety: they did not have loudspeakers and they
converted innumerable crowd.
We shall not repeat enough to ourselves the evangelic axiom: much more we shall
pray and much more we shall act more efficiently and largely in the great field of souls.
The activities of the Apostleship often absorb and divert ourselves from the
contemplation and from the conversation in front of the Tabernacle of Jesus Christ.
For this reason, many times we arrive till the night tired and weary, often saddened
and disenchanted with our hands and our heart empty because we have neglected to pray.
It is useless to find out new methods to do the Apostleship.
This is the only, irreplaceable and all-powerful method the grace of our God the
Redemptory will save the world with.
How long the Apostle is committed in various jobs, how much he has to remember
that he has the responsibility of praying. (Letter page 143).