No opportunities were neglected to instruct. At some of the Sunday Masses one of the missionaries in the pulpit prayed aloud in the style of a meditation following the priest’s actions. Every occasion was used to catechise – in this case it was a Mass celebrated for the women of Marignane with a special focus on their needs and interests:
During Mass, one of the missionaries in the pulpit, while kneeling down, uttered pious reflections up until the consecration touching on the sacrifice and on the communion in which all those assisted were to participate. After the consecration, he spoke out loud in an even tone all the ‘acts before communion’. Before administering the holy mysteries the celebrant spoke some fervent words, what the Italians call a fervorino. He then distributed the Body of Jesus Christ to over four hundred women or girls who came up to the Holy Table with remarkable devotion and recollection. While this was going on one of the missionaries made acts of faith, adoration, love, desire, etc.
Diary of the Marignane Mission, 8 December 1816, O.W. XVI