First Sentence

"My spiritual friend in God: I pray and beseech you to pray very close attention to the progress of your vocation and the way in which you have been called; thank God from your heart, so that through the help of his grace you may stand steadfast in the state, degree and manner of life that you have undertaken with full deliberation in spite of all the sublte attacks of your bodily and ghostly enemies, and so win through to the crown of life the lasts forever, Amen."