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EVERYDAY LIFE OF THE BELTRAME QUATTROCCHI FAMILY

EVERYDAY LIFE OF THE
BELTRAME QUATTROCCHI FAMILY
How God reveals Himself in their family events

1. tHe “We” in couple

Luigi and Maria very clearly perceived the danger of letting
the “I” prevail over the “we”. «The splendor of their love is also the
result of a continuous commitment: through daily efforts to improve
themselves, correcting excesses and irritable traits of their characters,
they made the conjugal “we” grow. They learned that the more you
put aside the “I”, the more you savor the beauty and bliss that comes
from the “we”» .
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«An earthly life lived in the perennial thought, inspired by God
Himself, of rendering a loved one happy, as far as it depends on
itself» .
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ideas For reFlection

• Which “irritable traits” of my personality do I want to try to
change?
• How can I contribute to multiply the moments of unity in our
family?
• We share with our spouse a moment when we experienced the
joy of a special harmony in which we felt as if we were “one”.

16 Cf. Erminia Catapano, Vincenzo Angrisani, Mistica Coniugale, op. cit., p. 24.
17 Maria Beltrame Quattrocchi, L’ordito e la trama, op. cit., p. 11.