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The messages return again and again to a single sober sentence: "without God you do not have a future." Earthly life is short, "everything is passing, only God is not passing," and Our Lady frames her decades of appearing as a mother leading her children home: "I am with you to lead you towards Heaven." Eternal life is not offered as consolation but as the actual point, the destination that makes the prayer, fasting, conversion, and courage of every other collection worth it.

Here the invitation becomes ambitious: not merely to be good, but to "shine holiness like a spring flower." Holiness is described as a way that is difficult and full of temptations and falls, one that Our Lady personally walks with each person, holding their hands. The call is to decide for holiness in ordinary life, to fight "for the holiness of every life," and to become saints not in spite of the world's darkness but as light within it.