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Ottawa, 19 January 1993

Published on August 19, 2019

Automatic translation from Italian, under review.

In these days Fr. J. told me that the Marian charism that is in me is a missionary grace given to me not only for myself but for the Church and her renewal. For him it is a matter of a total entrustment, body and soul, to Mary, who purifies persons by bringing them into the life of the Spirit, who unites the various members of the Mystical Body to one another. According to him, we are in a perspective different even from the spiritual friendships that have united the saints with one another: there the path rested on a personal dimension of self-giving to God, which culminated in the welcoming of a gift of communion between two persons, given to develop their holiness and for the good of the Church; here the orientation is communal: one starts from Mary and Jesus; the Virgin is from the beginning the foundation and the cause of a unity with all and with each, always open to the ecclesial reality.

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