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52 3. tHe Warp and WeFt

Everything from running the family to the spiritual life was
lived in an intertwining of gestures that allowed them, like the warp
and weft, to create an extraordinary fabric over the years.

«Everything in common, with a constant exchange of effective
EVERYDAY LIFE OF THE BELTRAME QUATTROCCHI FAMILY
and affective values, with a single life of aspirations and goals, with
mutual respect and immense love. [...] In almost half a century of
life in common, I affirm before God, never was there a moment of
boredom, of satiety, of tiredness. [...] You realize that the weft is
thread by thread in function of the warp [...] to form the wonderful
fabric that results from the combination of the two. [...] thread by
thread; the weft according to the warp; the warp according to the
weft – and just as the one without the other cannot form the fabric,
so the other has the strength and support of the first» .
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«Jesus will give you, of course, that strength which I, being
weak, could not find. “He sowed in me and He will reap in you” as
Jesus predicts in the Gospel: there are those who sow and those who
reap» .
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ideas For reFlection

• Let’s reflect upon whether, in the daily interweaving of our
warp and weft threads, we sometimes only see the reverse side of a
very precious fabric and fail to see that, on the right side, a marvelous
pattern is being created.

22 Maria Beltrame Quattrocchi, L’ordito e la trama, op. cit., pp. 11-12.
23 Erminia Catapano, Vincenzo Angrisani, Mistica Coniugale, op. cit., p. 64.