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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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