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Letter 211
TO VOLUNNIA BANZOLINI
She thanks her for gifts sent to her - She comforts her in her spiritual
desolation.
PRAISE TO JESUS, JESUS, JESUS FOR EVER.
Dearly beloved Sister,
Lovere, 5 January 1831.
I have not yet thanked you as I should have done for the
lovely cabbages you sent me, the designs you lent me and the
thousand other kind deeds you have lavished on me. I am
deeply indebted to you and I am profoundly grateful to you.
Forgive my delay in fulfilling this duty of thanking you. I beg
you not to overwhelm me any more with so much kindness
that I know I don’t deserve at all. Only be so kind as to keep up
your friendship with me, for that in itself is exceedingly dear
and precious to me.
My heart fills with profound compassion as I think of your
sorrow and distress, and I wish I could in some way be of
comfort to you. When God withdraws from a soul all spiritual
consolation and delight, it cannot help feeling deeply troubled
and dismayed: all it can still do, however, is to love the
Supreme Good all the more. Be comforted, dearest Sister;
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