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«I, too, have felt the sacrifice and renunciation of my heart
every time each of you left home and then asked for our permission
to take on the holy habit».
«If you go willingly, we will say to the Lord, Thy will be
done, just as we said it when we gave you permission to consecrate
yourselves to Him» .
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«I must tell you that I am not worthy of the honor that the
Lord has given me in having you children consecrated to the Lord
and to the good of humanity.... It is the Lord who has done this. It is
not because of me. You are the Lord’s great gift to me, and I thank
Him every day. […] We have only done our duty in educating you in
the law of the Lord and leaving you free to follow the voice of God
calling you» . (Domenica, 7 October 1965) EVERYDAY LIFE OF THE BERNARDINI FAMILY
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30 Elvio Bonacorsi, Iddio ci ha tanto benedetti, op. cit., pp. 13.34.
31 Cf. Marco Bertolani, Il mistero nuziale, op. cit., p 44.