On September 11, 1898, Charles de Foucauld returned to the Poor Clares in Jerusalem to work as a gardener and servant. Mother Elizabeth repeatedly urged him to become a priest.
“We should try to be so closely united to our Lord that we reproduce his life in our own, that our thoughts and words and actions should proclaim his teaching, so he reigns in us. He so often enters within us in Holy Communion. May His kingdom reign in us.”                                      
                                   -  St. Charles de Foucauld, letter of September 30, 1897