In his moral writings, Don Guanella has repeatedly insisted on the good orientation of the Christian day, especially wanting to recommend referring every action to God. That is, it concerns the internal ordering of all our activities; but this presupposes a certain regularity and accuracy of external actions.
The external regularity of daily programs is attested by a memory of Don Guanella himself for the years spent in Pianello and by the memories of a priest nephew who, during his time in the seminary, used to spend part of his summer holidays with his uncle in Savogno.
This second document is more interesting than the first, not only because it is more meticulous in detail, but because it demonstrates that, for Don Guanella, the daily timetable was not just a forgotten plan or writing, but a habitual fact, albeit with not rare exceptions imposed by his ministry:
«In the morning after long church duties, having returned home and sipped some coffee, he opened one or two doors that faced each other, thus creating an ambulatory, and walked along it, with long strides, while reciting the breviary.
Once the prayer is over, a visit to the chicken coop, to the rabbits, to the bee hive, to the always very careful and profitable vegetable garden, happy with avenues with polychrome edges for various, abundant flowers, which gradually come to decorate and perfume the chapels of the Church , embellished with numerous fruiting plants and shady cloisters; then to the study table; then to the hasty midday lunch; taking the excuse of a walk, he stopped to converse with a man, to greet an old woman, to visit a sick person, to comfort the poor, until, having reached one of the chapels he had built, he recited a short prayer and took a short break. to rest, he retraced his steps and thus returned to his pen and books, to prayer and to the church."