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communion, the little shyness some people feel in openly performing religious duties%u2026 Be surethat all these sufferings, small as they are, if accepted lovingly, are most pleasing to God%u2019sgoodness%u201d. [180] Ultimately, however, our response to the love of the heart of Christ is manifestedin love of our neighbour: %u201ca love that is firm, constant, steady, unconcerned with trivial matters orpeople%u2019s station in life, not subject to changes or animosity%u2026 Our Lord loves us unceasingly, putsup with so many of our defects and our flaws. Precisely because of this, we must do the same withour brothers and sisters, never tiring of putting up with them%u201d. [181]179. Saint Charles de Foucauld sought to imitate Jesus by living and acting as he did, in aconstant effort to do what Jesus would have done in his place. Only by being conformed to thesentiments of the heart of Christ could he fully achieve this goal. Here too we find the idea of %u201clovefor love%u201d. In his words, %u201cI desire sufferings in order to return love for love, to imitate him%u2026 to enterinto his work, to offer myself with him, the nothingness that I am, as a sacrifice, as a victim, for thesanctification of men%u201d. [182] The desire to bring the love of Jesus to others, his missionaryoutreach to the poorest and most forgotten of our world, led him to take as his emblem the words,%u201cIesus-Caritas%u201d, with the symbol of the heart of Christ surmounted by a cross. [183] Nor was this alight decision: %u201cWith all my strength I try to show and prove to these poor lost brethren that ourreligion is all charity, all fraternity, and that its emblem is a heart%u201d. [184] He wanted to settle withother brothers %u201cin Morocco, in the name of the heart of Jesus%u201d. [185] In this way, their evangelizingwork could radiate outwards: %u201cCharity has to radiate from our fraternities, as it radiates from theheart of Jesus%u201d. [186] This desire gradually made him a %u201cuniversal brother%u201d. Allowing himself to beshaped by the heart of Christ, he sought to shelter the whole of suffering humanity in his fraternalheart: %u201cOur heart, like that of Jesus, must embrace all men and women%u201d. [187] %u201cThe love of theheart of Jesus for men and women, the love that he demonstrated in his passion, this is what weneed to have for all human beings%u201d. [188]180. Father Henri Huvelin, the spiritual director of Saint Charles de Foucauld, observed that,%u201cwhen our Lord dwells in a heart, he gives it such sentiments, and this heart reaches out to theleast of our brothers and sisters. Such was the heart of Saint Vincent de Paul%u2026 When our Lordlives in the soul of a priest, he makes him reach out to the poor%u201d. [189] It is important to realize thatthe apostolic zeal of Saint Vincent, as Father Huvelin describes it, was also nurtured by devotionto the heart of Christ. Saint Vincent urged his confreres to %u201cfind in the heart of our Lord a word ofconsolation for the poor sick person%u201d. [190] If that word is to be convincing, our own heart mustfirst have been changed by the love and tenderness of the heart of Christ. Saint Vincent oftenreiterated this conviction in his homilies and counsels, and it became a notable feature of theConstitutions of his Congregation: %u201cWe should make a great effort to learn the following lesson,also taught by Christ: %u2018Learn from me, for I am gentle and humble of heart%u2019. We should rememberthat he himself said that by gentleness we inherit the earth. If we act on this, we will win peopleover so that they will turn to the Lord. That will not happen if we treat people harshly or sharply%u201d.[191]42