Dear Father,1 Without even noticing it, we have already spent half a month of our vacation in the most healthy and happy atmosphere imaginable. We have total control of the twenty-four hours to sleep, study, carry on a conversation, pray, eat, and be free from any distraction. Everything is proceeding in the best way possible: …
I have taken a trip: Alba – Diano – Millesimo – Savona, which gives me so much to say: of the visit to the tunnel, of the Apennines, of the sea in semi-stormy weather, of the Shrine1, of the birthplace of Julius II and of Gabrielo Chiabrera2. I was also in Asti: an increase of …
My dear friend, Would you believe it? In two and half months of vacation I have received the miserable amount of four letters all extracted by pliers: one from Delaude two months back, one from Faggiani, one likewise from Vandero, and recently one from Motta. To think that my brain in past days was so …
My Dear Joe, Now that the festivities1 are over, I may begin to relax. Could you imagine that in sixty-five days of vacation which are already gone by, the mailman has not delivered to me unam quidem epistolam amicorum2? [not even one simple letter from friends?] This is the way it is. In the midst …
Our Dearest Riccio, There are three of us writing to you.1 What a coincidence! If you were here also, it would be possible to make a square out of a triangle; we would then have two sides going to Villafranca, one side going to this bank of the Tanaro, and one side going to the …
Dear Friend, I am writing just a note to confirm what we had agreed upon: that I will be in Turin on Tuesday the 30th.1 I am in a world of hustle and bustle and yet in full solitude. My brother is getting married: Imagine the consequences.2 I never forget my friends and I hope …
My dearest friend, In succinct, telegraphic style… What can I say, I waited until the last moment and then for unforeseen circumstances I was not able to master more than a few minutes before the mailing deadline. Let this be a lesson for the next time. And what is new? We are really in bad …
I’ve just come back from the Sacrament of confession with a purified soul and with palpitating heart full of heavenly joy: therefore I send to you a word of love, of that kind of love which renders us, as I already told you quoting the Apostle Paul,1 consummati in unum. I don’t have the time …
Silence – – with everyone – – Scripta manent1 – – words fade away, but what is put in writing remains. I have a thousand things to tell you, but since God alone has the prerogative of exhausting a subject at one time, I shall have to resign myself, like everyone else, to filtering my …
My very good Riccio, I am writing to you a few things in a hurry. I enjoyed your letter very much because I learned from it many things, and precious news. I admire and praise your great industriousness. Since laziness is the father of vice so too is industriousness the mother of virtues. After having …
…1 our vacations are quickly coming to an end. We had one hundred and fifty days of vacation and we have already spent half. What can we do? Peruccati wrote to me again saying that he is now near Cividale2 in the mountains among the Slavic people and the Slovenians. Now I know that they …
[N.B.1] …But, let the will of God be done Who, as St. Paul says, will not let you be tested beyond your strength. Along with the test He will give you the strength to endure it.2 So pray for me. Concerning my third driving thought, Riccio is at the root of it because for two …
