16 September 1976
Most Holy Father:
Taking advantage of His Eminence Cardinal Thiandoum's meeting with Your Holiness, I am anxious to thank you for your kindness in granting me an interview at Castelgandolfo.
As Your Holiness said: we are united by a point in common-the ardent desire to see the end of all the abuses which are disfiguring the Church.
How I long to collaborate in that salutary work with Your Holiness and under your authority, so that the Church may recover her true countenance.
Hoping that the interview Your Holiness granted me will bear fruit pleasing to God and salutary for souls, I beg you to accept my respectful and filial wishes in Christ and Mary.
+ Marcel Lefebvre
The text was published in Itineraires, No.208, p. 131.
