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It is impossible to say how a man with a wounded leg, and with callosities on his knees like sharp bones, could remain so long keeling without any support.
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He often recommended his religious not to forget to pray for the benefactors of the order, living and dead, for the soul in purgatory, for those who were living in mortal sin, and principally for those who were in their agony. He said more than once that every one of our Fathers, without leaving his own room, might be present by prayer and recommended the soul of every person in the world who was in his agony.
He was anxious that all his religious should be men of prayer, and wished that, whether they were at home, in the hospitals, or in the streets , their thoughts should always be occupied with some devout subject. He used to say, "Woe to that religious who is contented with his mornings' mental prayer, and remains all the rest of the day with his mind distracted here and there; such a one in the evening will find his hands full of flies and wind." Indeed, he wished that the body only should be occupied with external exercises, and that the soul should always, as far as possible, be kept united internally with God.
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So great was his care not to offer the Holy Sacrifice with his conscience defiled with even the slightest defect, that once when he was saying Mass in the hospital of St. Spirito, in the presence of all the servants of the establishment, just before the consecration he remembered having rebuked a little too harshly a novice who was serving his Mass. He would not proceed without first turning and begging pardon, at the same time advising him not to communicate that day, for fear he might be a little ill-tempered.
The Life of St. Camillus of Lellis by Father Sanzio Ciccatelli, trans. by Father Frederick Faber. pp. 293-301
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