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YEAR 1826
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Letter 23

TO MARIANNA VERTOVA
She proposes devotional practices for Carnival Time.

THE GREATER GLORY OF GOD

Dearly beloved Sister in Jesus Christ,

From time to time miracles still do happen nowadays.
This time I want to work one myself by being prompt, or rather
very prompt, in answering your welcome letter. I do hope that
not even Marianna will charge her Bortolamea with laziness
and slacker, because she does not deserve it. I am very happy
that you liked what I proposed in my last letter. Now you are
asking for something to do in Carnival time. I do appreciate
your fervour and I wish to satisfy it, even though you could
have very well written out yourself what I, and the other two
friends, have to do. Oh well! This time your humility has
prevailed, another time your companion’s pride, perhaps, will
have the upper hand.
Let us do our best, by prayer, to obtain from God the
repentance and forgiveness of so many sins, and so we shall
every morning recite three times the Our Father, Hail Mary and

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