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Today I offered my holy Communion for you. When I
asked my Lord in the Sacrament what he expected from his
Lucia, it seems to me that he warmly recommended his own
cause: that is, that in this distressing Carnival time you must
do your utmost to prevent offences to Him and to gain for him
the conversion of some soul. Set your heart on doing this, for
Jesus truly deserves it, and you are very fortunate in doing
something that is so dear to him.
I cannot keep from you the happiness I feel at the sight of
so much progress in our Pious Union. I assure you that all my
fellow members in my home town are all afire with holy love,
eager to do a good deal and very happy to be members of this
devout Union. The girl you proposed to replace the one who
died, has not obtained the approval of Rev. Superior. I myself
proposed five names to him: two of them were accepted and
three were not. The Lord knows what he disposes, and so let us
be happy to do His will. I told Don Bosio that we wanted to
make up the required number, and he answered that with
regard to the five or six still lacking, he knew where best to find
them, and that he has them already in mind if, he added, all of
you agree to it.
I hope I will soon be able to send you some practices for
Carnival Time: it is indeed appropriate that our Pious Union be
committed to draw souls to Jesus.
I should like you to do me an act of kindness: that is, to
pray Rev. Fr. Ballardini to send you without delay the booklet
on the Company of St Aloysius. The Religious to whom I had
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