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Letter 212

TO DON ANGELO BOSIO
Trust in God’s merciful love - At a loss in discerning on her vocation.

HAIL TO JESUS, MARY AND THE SPOTLESS ALOYSIUS

Very Reverend Father in Jesus Christ,

I am enclosing a paper herewith; kindly correct it as the
Lord inspires you and then send it back to me so that I may
do something in this time of revelry. I should tell you
something about my soul, but to tell you the truth, I don’t know
what to say to you. I would like to hope to be in the hands of

the Lord. He knows that I am in need of everything, that the
load I carry is made of frailty and sinfulness and that I am
greatly in need of his merciful love. I trust He will have mercy
on me, because he is my most beloved Father, and so I trust
in Him with a tranquil heart.
During the Christmas Novena I was so strongly urged to
run away and retire in some Convent that I don’t know how I
managed to resist it. But on Christmas Day itself, when I had
planned to tell you, Rev. Father, what I had in mind and then
decide according to your advice, my heart was filled with
perfect calm and an overwhelming desire, instead, to do what I

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