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Letter 29
TO GIULIA & LUCIA ROMELLI
She distributes devotional practices for each month of the year among
the four friends - Postscript.
GLORY BE TO THE MOST BLESSED TRINITY. AMEN
Dearly beloved Sisters,
At last I am able to do as you, and I, wanted to. I would
have liked very much to write to you earlier, but a slight illness
forced me to repress my desire. Don’t think, however, that in
the meantime I forgot all about you: No, beloved Sisters, the
thought of you is too deeply engraved in my mind for me to
forget; in fact I must tell you that even at night I have dreamt
about you five or six times, to my own great delight. Let this be
enough to assure you of my sincere affection for you.
Now I must tell you what I had promised you time back.
My plan would be this: to dedicate each month to a particular
devotion and observe it through various practices. Then to
assign three months to each of us by drawing of lots, so that
the four of us put together will cover the whole year. I have
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