Saying thank you is nobility of soul 

Reverend Father Carrera, 

with the offer sent for a scholarship in the name of my parents, I wanted to thank Saint Joseph for the many help and for the good that I have received over many years: for having graduated and for having celebrated my eleventh year of retirement in good health . […] Wanting to take stock of my life I can say that it always took place under the caring and watchful gaze of Saint Joseph. I have often prayed and pray to Saint Joseph to always help me in my choices. I thank him for becoming a grandmother to my granddaughter Aurora, who I entrusted to her paternal protection, so that she grows up good and healthy in a family where love and peace always reign.

I thank you for your attention to my letter and I greet you and all your collaborators with great esteem. 

Thank you also for the always welcome wishes on my name day.

BAGT - Voghera

Dear and esteemed "grandmother",

I respect his desire to obey Jesus in «not letting the right hand know what the left hand is doing», but I praise the sense of gratitude that shines like perfume from his words and the confident awareness of being under the warm protection of Saint Joseph who it does not always erase the cold of our worries, but it always gives us the warmth to dilute the cold and the courage to face the inevitable difficulties in our pilgrimage through the days of life. 

Dear "Grandma", the sharing of your noble feelings of faith and charity have brought joy to me and my collaborators and we assure you to pray for you so that Saint Joseph may always keep his feelings clear and transparent.

Maintain the connection with our roots 

Dear Director,

Thank you for the good wishes on my name day. I am sending my contribution in favor of people in difficulty, certain that you will be able to allocate it according to the needs of the Work. I entrust to your community a prayer for my family, so that the presence of God in our lives may never be lacking, capable of spreading to those we meet every day. May Saint Joseph, admirable example of a just man, full of trust in God, affectionate companion of Mary and loving father of Jesus, continue to be a model for her and for every collaborator of her in the Work that she supports.

Best regards.

Luigi Colantuoni, Tokyo – Japan

Dear friend and esteemed brother in the faith,

It is with particular pleasure that I respond to your kind letter, coming from a very distant continent where Christianity is not very widespread and you and your family are the messengers sent to the frontiers of the world to bear witness to God's love for people. Our magazine reaches fifty-eight countries including China and Twain.

Thinking about this global network and the physical distance of many nations, our commitment to the magazine is great so that you do not feel distant, but close, and participate in your events with our prayer that knows no borders.

Thinking of you, dear Luigi, and of the members in distant countries, I would like to assure everyone of a daily hug of solidarity.

Monuments of faith to remember and to imitate

Dearest Father Carrera, 

last July, after six years of illness, our dear mother, Nelda Fagioli Brillo, left us to return to the house of our true Father. She was 96 years old and she hadn't recognized anyone for a long time, to our great sorrow (we are 4 children).

Our mother, since she was little, was always devoted to Saint Joseph, who prayed even when she was doing housework and during our children's illnesses: always very serious illnesses. Mother was very happy to receive the monthly magazine La Santa Crociata which she read with great interest. Even though she was ill, she very often recited the Holy Rosary to the Holy Family. I would like this testimony to be published to honor Saint Joseph through whose intercession my mother and we received so many graces. I greet you with much affection. Thanks for everything.

Marcella Brillo Baldelli, 

Passignano sul Trasimeno (Perugia)

Dear Marcella,

thank you for the beautiful testimony of mother Nelda, who not only gave you life, but cultivated it with so much love and passion that, despite the many years, she left so much nostalgia for her presence in your heart. Nelda is not distant from her children, but her goodness is combined with the wind of God's love that blows in the sails of life that pushes us towards new experiences, full of grace and consolation.

Our parents leave us a wealth of wisdom and experience to face life with dignity and faith. I wish you that from heaven mother Nelda will blow on the ashes of memories and enliven your generosity and always revive hope, the energy of life. 

God bless you and keep you united.