Rome, Second Sunday of Easter, April 24, 1960

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You have come and entered
where no one could enter;
when no one could help me,
each time no one could console me.
Every day I have spoken with you.
At every moment I have looked at you
and in your countenance
I have found the answer;
in your words the explanation;
in your love the solution.

I love you
because for many years
you have lived with me
and I have lived with you.
I drank from your law,
and did not know it.
I was nourished with it,
became strong in it
I found new courage,
but I was unaware of it
like a child who drinks its mother’s milk
and still does not know
how to call her by that sweet name.

Help me to be grateful
– at least a little –
in the time which is left to me,
for this love
that you have given me
and has compelled me
to tell you,
“I love you.”

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