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Requests, opinions, the good received

Requests, opinions, good received (58)

Saturday, 06 July 2019 12pm

Your letters - July 2019

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Saint Joseph is a faithful guardian for all

I want to thank Saint Joseph for having, with his powerful patronage, improved every area of ​​my life.

In the family and life situation in which I find myself, since the "positive influence" of the celestial patriarch took over, it seems that the forces of evil are "subdued".

Infinitely grateful for this, I undertake to spread devotion towards Saint Joseph.

Letter signed

 

Dear and kind lady,

I am really happy to share with you the noble feelings of gratitude to Saint Joseph who accompanies her with so much love on her way and becomes energy, courage and optimism in facing and overcoming the difficulties that life holds for us. Eyes illuminated by faith make us see the saints who from heaven become "good Samaritans" to lift us up in moments of hardship.

The guarantee of Saint Joseph's intercession is narrated in the first chapters of the Gospels of Luke and Matthew, in which we find Joseph's loving attention alongside Jesus in providing with great concern for human growth. 

When the cold of life envelops us, the mantle of Saint Joseph shelters us from the elements and offers us supplements of divine energy and his presence fills the soul with hope.

 


 

The prayer of suffrage reconnects feelings

Dear Director,

I cannot express all my gratitude and emotion that his words and his memory aroused on the occasion of my husband Francesco's anniversary.

I never expected to receive a letter from him in a moment that was so painful for me and full of beautiful memories. I feel truly moved and honoured, thank you. Since her letter arrived, I have reread it and pondered every word of hers. I learned by heart the words of Saint Augustine which give me so much courage and serenity. I can tell you this: never a day goes by in which I don't thank God for having placed my husband Francesco next to me for 58 years. He has always united us with a deep, immense clean affection, we have formed a beautiful family with two children, God called him, just turned 80.

Now I live with memories, I always thank God for having fulfilled all the wishes I kept in my heart and Saint Joseph has always accompanied me with his help and protection, since I was a little girl.

I apologize, director, if I have gone on, but my heart overflows with gratitude towards you, who I now feel like a dear friend, appreciating and admiring you for what you write in the magazine which I always wait with great anxiety to be able to read each article. and reread while waiting for the next issue to arrive.

I greet you with all my respect.

Raffaella (Rome)

 

Dear and kind Mrs Raffaella,

I wanted to publish your letter to communicate the nobility of your feelings towards your husband Francesco. In the souls of two spouses who for many years have sown love and understanding, nostalgia is immense, in fact it runs through every fragment of life embroidered with the joyful colors of sharing. 

Jesus, speaking of spouses, stated that they fill their future in a single reality, embellished with noble feelings with the guarantee of eternity. 

Saturday, 08 June 2019 11:02

Your letters - June 2019

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Tatoo: embellishment or desecration of the body?

Dear, 

I received the monthly magazine, and when I reached the last page the article on tattoos left me stunned: what's the point? What did you want to convey with those words?

Articles I read some time ago on the same topic, but of a completely different nature, came to mind.

Antonella, via email

Saturday, 11 May 2019 14:07

Your letters - May 2019

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Benedetto Pietrogrande's ascent to heaven 

Dear Don Mario,

on behalf of myself and my entire family I would like to thank you for your message and for the precious gift of "Perpetual Suffrage".

Friday, April 12 2019 15: 58

Your letters - April 2019

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A beneficial shadow always accompanies us 

Very Reverend Director, 

since I was young, urged by my mother, I have always trusted in Saint Joseph, the great Saint, who in various circumstances helped me resolve unexpected or difficult situations of need.

Saturday, 16 March 2019 14:06

Your letters - March 2019

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Prayer it is never useless

Rev. Don Mario,

It is with great joy and gratitude that I write, to publicly testify to a grace recently received.

Thursday, 07 February 2019 09:37

Your letters - February 2019

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Friendly company in suffering

Dear Director, returning this morning from the post office where I sent a contribution for the magazine, which I read with emotional transport and emotion.

Thursday, 10 January 2019 16pm

Your letters - January 2019

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The apparent sunset Saint Joseph invades him with the lights of dawn

Dear Don Mario,

It is with great relief that I write to you after months of suffering from an annoying and often distressing psychophysical depression. Medicines and psychotherapy sessions produced no effect. 

Thursday, December 06 2018 16: 59

Your letters from December 2018

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A promise kept for a dutiful "thank you". 

Dear Father Mario,

I am so grateful to God for the intercession of Saint Joseph that, even with a little delay, I write to you to publicly repay my debt to Saint Joseph from whom, in asking for grace, which was very important for me, I had promised him that if he granted me 'I would have communicated to the Pious Union of Saint Joseph to testify to his paternal attention towards those who suffer.

I had been suffering from a nervous disease for a long time; despite many medications and conversations with the psychotherapist, I didn't see any improvement. 

Then I turned to Saint Joseph: I prayed with the Sacred Mantle, I made novenas and I prayed with an open heart, trusting in his help. 

Slowly I noticed an improvement and now I fulfill my promise.

Saint Joseph truly protected me and I am grateful to him.  

Letter signed by Marino

Dear lady,

a shared joy, infects those who listen to it and widens the circle of contentment. For this reason we too share his healing and are encouraged not to let our trust in Saint Joseph wane, humble, silent and faithful protector of our lives.

His letter truly echoes the words of Genesis: "Go to Joseph". Just as on that occasion the famine was stopped, so too our trust in Saint Joseph defeats our fears, our desolations and fills our voids with the awareness of not being orphans, but beloved children.

Dear Friend, thank you for your testimony which I am sure represents the voice of many people trusting in the intercession of Saint Joseph.


So many joys to share with gratitude 

Dear Don Mario,

We are two spouses who have been members of the Pious Union for years, we write to you to sincerely thank Saint Joseph because after having recited the Sacred Mantle for three different intentions, the Lord granted us the graces requested. 

We want to give this thanks by taking up some words of the Mantle itself and to keep the promise expressed in them: «And as a sign of my deepest gratitude, I promise to make your glories known, while with all my affection I bless the Lord who wanted you so powerful in heaven and on earth."

We also give thanks for the blessed oil that we promptly received.

Kind regards and respect.

Simona and Iacopo – Rimini

Dear and kind 

Simona and Jacopo,

thank you for your testimony and the benefits enjoyed through the intercession of Saint Joseph. Pope Francis some time ago said that Saint Joseph can be compared to the carpenter or the blacksmith who, when called for a repair in the house, ensures his presence and sometimes makes himself wait, but in the end he comes. This is what Saint Joseph does, maybe he doesn't intervene immediately, but he arrives anyway. He takes us by the hand and patiently accompanies us to solve problems.  

The oil that we have invited you, blessed through the intercession of Saint Joseph, is similar to the medicine that the good Samaritan poured on the wounds of the unfortunate man lying on the side of the road. The oil is the same, fruit of the olive tree, but in addition it possesses the spiritual energy of the blessing and constant intercession of Saint Joseph.

May faith and love continue to bind your lives on a path illuminated by hope that cannot disappoint.

I guarantee you our intercessory prayer.

Saturday, 25 August 2018 13pm

Your letters from September 2018

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A twinning in the name of Saint Joseph 

Rev. Don Mario Carrera and dear members of the Pious Union, it is with joy that today, the First Wednesday of the month and, by virtue of the many and clear graces received through the intercession of Saint Joseph, I would like to explain, publicly, to the glory of the latter, 2 recent "works" concerning him: - "painting" of St. Joseph the carpenter on the facade of the family home in Campodolcino (see attached photo) - placement of the statue of St. Joseph (Fontanini) at the church of Portarezza in Campodolcino ("work" supported by the parish priest D. Mario Baldini) - as per photo. Both the painting and the statue are intended to be a manifestation of personal/family and parish gratitude towards St. Joseph of whom St. Guanella was a particular "singer" and propagator.

Saturday, 30 June 2018 13:52

Your letters from July 2018

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The beauty of filial love

Dear Father Director Mario Carrera,

I am very happy to write them again, and I was very happy that my first letter was published in the monthly magazine La Santa Crociata in Honor of San Giuseppe.

In the June issue, which I received promptly, I was very struck by the prayer to Mary, our traveling companion, a wonderful prayer, which gives an inner strength that cannot be explained. 

I was struck by a phrase in this beautiful prayer, when it reads: «That the heaviness of the past prevents us from giving credit to the future». it's exactly like this, if we want to be followers of Jesus we must not look back, we would not be able to think of a peaceful present and future; the mistakes of each of us must make us stronger, they must help us not to make the same mistake again, without sitting there dwelling on it. This way we will be able to face life more peacefully. Being witnesses of Jesus, of that Jesus who gave all of himself for us without holding back.

And as Pope Francis says regarding holiness, each of us can be a joyful, cheerful and full of life little saint to follow Jesus in the two things so dear to him: humility and charity.

Domenica Tarantino,

Calabrian lace

Dear Sunday,

I share with her the joy that sings in her heart, the effort in editing the magazine has the aim of making noble feelings vibrate in the souls of our readers both before God and our brothers and sisters. Monsignor Tonino Bello's letters to the Madonna are a masterpiece of humanity permeated by great faith. He was truly "a bishop made Gospel", for all the people he met in life and for those who meet him reading his writings; it is a perennial fragrant message of evangelical wisdom. He spoke of the Church and dreamed of it as a mother with "the apron" always on, like the mothers of yesterday, always careful to keep the house in order and in permanent service for the well-being of the entire family. And he suggested something important: "Never close the apron in the wardrobe of sacred vestments, but understand that the stole and the apron are almost the obverse and reverse of a single priestly symbol."

With Baptism, even all lay people acquire a priestly character and, therefore, the entire existence passes into our hands and our hearts with a scent of blessing that leaves the flavor of eternity.


A fragment of Italy in the USA

Dear Don Mario,

I am late replying to your note regarding our participation. My husband and I read the beautiful magazine with great pleasure and it is true that we do not actively participate in the magazine and this also makes me sad about the decline in readers. We are two retired old men and we help one of the children raise the children. They are our consolation and at the end of the day we are happy to have them but also for the tiredness they cause us. My husband reads the magazine first, especially the advice column for the small vegetable garden that he successfully grows and the cooking recipes.  

Thank you. I hope Saint Joseph continues to bless my family.

I wish everyone a good continuation!

(Sorry for my poor Italian, I haven't been from our beautiful Rome for over 50 years)

Wilma L. Mazzulli, USA

PS My brothers and I were students at St. Joseph's school, and under the saint's protection from birth; my parents and in-laws are enrolled in perpetual masses.

Dear Wilma, 

what a joyful breath of beautiful nostalgia in his writing. She brought a piece of our world overseas and our work at the Pious Union is not only to keep the gaze of Saint Joseph vigilant on the people consecrated to him, but also to make the "sweet" Italian dialect resonate in your homes and also to avoid losing the heritage of a memory as a reserve of values.

I will try to pay attention to your wishes and to be able to cultivate on American soil the traditions of the "smells" of our gardens and our tasty cuisine for which we publish some simple recipes. Let's not forget that the earth is always mother and invites us to look up where life comes from.


A pleasure for the mind and an energy for the soul

Reverend Don Mario,

even if my economic conditions do not often allow me to support the magazine and the works of mercy you carry out, nevertheless I assure you that you are in my thoughts and prayers and in the future I will try to help you more. 

I take the opportunity of a friend of mine coming to Rome to send you my solidarity also to support the expenses of the magazine, for which I send you my cordial thanks for the beautiful articles which are a real pleasure to read both for the mind and for the soul and which allow me to maintain a strong relationship with God and communion with our patron saints. 

I hope that this beautiful magazine will never come to an end and that Saint Joseph will keep us away from all evils. 

With a cordial and affectionate greeting I ask you to pray for me and for our family. God bless us!.

Giovanna Puggioni,

Oliena (NU)

Dear Mrs Giovanna,

the freshness of his feelings shows the nobility of his soul in sharing our faith and keeping his soul open to the passage of God who, like breathing, nourishes and regenerates our trust in his mercy and allows us to work with commitment by entrusting ourselves to love fatherly of God who watches over our affairs with loving sympathy.

May Saint Joseph help us to walk the paths of daily life with the same trust that he preserved and exercised even in dark moments, humanly incomprehensible, but which turned out to be a winning bet. The hands of God weave our future with threads of light, it is important not to abandon the hope of his constant presence.

Keep your genuine faith, many of our associates also need it, sometimes prisoners in the grip of evil. 


The gift of a lifetime to sow joy

Rev. Don Mario,

it is difficult for me to express in words the emotion of receiving greetings on the occasion of my name day on time every year; I thank you from the bottom of my heart and also for your special prayers. I hope that Jesus, Mary and Saint Joseph will always be my dear patron saints, that they will guide me in these days of life that the Lord grants me after 91 years of life. 

The month of March, dedicated to Saint Joseph, is life for me: on 6 March I took the religious habit, on 20 March 1948 my religious profession, this year the 70th of consecration.

Thank you Saint Joseph, my great help and protector. I recommend the prayer and protection of Saint Joseph for me and in particular for my family.

In union of fraternal communion, with esteem and gratitude.

Sr. Maria Flavia Saraceno, Roccamorace (PE)

Dear and esteemed 

sister Maria Flavia,

we are the ones who thank you for letting us share the joy of this 70th anniversary of consecration to Love. Seventy years are a poem of feelings, of gratitude to the divine goodness that allowed her to sing with Mary, the mother of Jesus and the wife of Joseph, the song of gratitude, for having looked at her with such benevolence since the first years of her life. youth. Those who have enjoyed her good have seen first-hand how God is able to build cathedrals of love through the fragile weakness of our lives. The lives of people, of religious women who spend their existence in arousing joy are comparable to a carousel that hosts children for free for a ride and thus provides life with reasons for joy, a constant smile to enjoy the good shared with others.

May God preserve her serenity, clarity of mind and enough energy to still feel like a musical note in the song of life for herself and for others.  

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