A memory full of blessings
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of Mother Anna Maria Cánopi
The journey of life is done in company and the people who, from stage to stage, providentially stand by us have a more or less large impact on our history.
For this reason I should remember a long list of people, but I will limit myself to some of the most significant ones, starting, obviously, with those who introduced me into life.
My parents: Mario and Maria Cleofe. He might be called a man of thought, she a woman of intuition; a combination of rationality and poetry, strength and sweetness. Wisely humble, with only elementary education they were able to express in their lives the most genuine values of Christianity: the strong and large family, the responsibility of education, the sacrifice of work, altruism. I can only think of them in heaven among the ranks of those who have experienced the evangelical beatitudes.
Loving God is knowing how to look your brothers in the eyes
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by Gianni Gennari
We continue the journey aimed at knowing our faith, founded on the First and New Testaments and expressed in the Creed since the times of the apostolic Church. In the Bible, little by little, adapting to the ability of men, from Abraham onwards, up to Moses, to the Prophets, and finally to the Apostles, the full announcement of salvation in Jesus Christ arrived. We came, last time, to discover that in the ancient biblical revelation, from 
Abraham, precisely to the prophets, the only way to know God is not to look up, but to recognize with facts his true image in the brother man by listening to His voice who asked precisely this in the "Ten Words". God is "known" - the prophets tell us, even if our sensitivity is perhaps not yet accustomed to fully understanding the novelty of their word - only if he is "recognized" in his brother. The Commandments, from the third onwards - we have seen it up to here - speak only of our relationship with other men...
A revolution in the world of desires
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by Ottavio De Bertolis
We have reached the end of the Decalogue, and we combine the last two commandments, or words, those that traditionally go under a sort of duplication: "do not desire another's wife", and "do not desire other people's things". We unify them into a single “do not desire”, which is a sort of lowest common denominator.
To begin to clarify the meaning of this Word, we must first of all distinguish between "desires" and "cravings", or whims. Desire is something profound, which sculpts our identity and which constitutes what God created us for: so one can desire to study physics, or be an astronaut, or become a father, or consecrate oneself to God. These types of desires say our vocation itself: any other type of experience will be less significant and important for those who live them, and these desires will likely remain deeply rooted in us, overcoming any contrary or adverse evidence. It may be difficult to remain faithful to it, but it is not impossible, and the effort made in this sense will contribute to making us feel like ourselves, authors and protagonists of our choices. True desire is indelible, precisely because, ultimately, it comes from God.
New shoots in the "priories"
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of Mother Anna Maria Cánopi
The Lord has plans unknown to us and always surprising. The tree rooted on the rock of San Giulio Island, which had grown unpredictably, was ready to transplant some shoots elsewhere. And there were many bishops who came to ask us - almost to beg us - to give our presence to their dioceses too. Among the numerous and continuous requests we were able to satisfy some.
In Valle d'Aosta, the «Regina Pacis» Priory was born on 12 October 2002. The monastery is created from the renovation of some rustic medieval "grange" of the canons of the Great San Bernardo. As in a cradle, surrounded by mountains, next to the Hospitaller House of the Canons, the "Regina Pacis" community, initially made up of seven members, also gradually grew. Now there are about fifteen nuns. The activities they carry out are, to a proportionate extent, some of those already learned in the abbey on the island, in particular sacred vestments, icons and various crafts.