And beseech God to give you the strength to put your resolution into practice. "Lord, I wish to be good, noble, courageous, gentle, sincere; help me; grant that every night, when my mother gives me her last kiss, I may be able to say to her, 'You kiss this night a noble and more worthy boy than you kissed last night.'" Keep always in your thoughts that other superhuman and blessed Enrico which you may be after this life. And pray. You cannot imagine the sweetness that you experience,--how much better a mother feels when she sees her child with hands clasped in prayer. When I behold you praying, it seems impossible to me that there should not be some one there gazing at you and listening to you. Then I believe more firmly that there is a supreme goodness and an infinite pity; I love you more, I work with more ardor, I endure with more force, I forgive with all my heart, and I think of death with serenity. O great and good God! To hear once more, after death, the voice of my mother, to meet my children again, to see my Enrico once more, my Enrico, blessed and immortal, and to clasp him in an embrace which shall nevermore be loosed, nevermore, nevermore to all eternity! Oh, pray! Let us pray, let us love each other, let us be good, let us bear this celestial hope in our hearts and souls, my adored child!
并且要向神祈祷，求神给予你实行这决心的力量。“主啊！我愿善良、高尚、勇敢、温和、诚实，请帮助我；母亲吻我的时候，请使我能说，‘母亲！你今夜吻着比昨夜更高尚更有价值的少年哩！’的话。”你要这样的祈祷。到来世去，须变成天使般清洁的安利柯，无论何时，都要这样存心，不可忘了，并且还要祈祷。祈祷的欢悦你或许还未能想像，见了儿子敬虔地祈祷，做母亲的将怎样欢喜啊！我见你在祈祷的时候，只觉得有什么人在那里看着你、听着你的。这时，我能更比平时确信有大慈大悲至善的神存在。因此，我能起更爱你的心，能更忍耐辛苦，能真心宽恕他人的罪恶，能用了平静的心境去想着死时的光景。啊！至大至七的冲！在那世请使能再闻母亲之声，再和小孩们相会，再遇见安利柯——与圣洁而有无限生命的安利柯做永远不离的拥抱！啊！祈祷吧！时刻祈祷，大家相爱，施行善事，使这神圣的希望，字印在心里，字印在我高贵的安利柯的灵魂里！

Thy Mother.
——母亲——