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2nd Pastoral Letter – 1890

ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE PASTORAL VISIT

GIUSEPPE MARELLO
Bishop of Acqui

To the Venerable Clergy and Beloved People
of the City and the Diocese

GREETINGS AND BLESSINGS IN THE LORD

In the act with which we communicate to you, Venerable
Brothers and Beloved Children in Christ, the grace of the Lenten
Indult that the benevolence of the Holy Father grants also this
year to our Diocese, we additionally have the sweet consolation
of announcing the Sacred Pastoral visit. We are preparing to
accomplish one of the most serious and at the same time most
pleasing duties of our ministry, and with the help of God, after
having celebrated the holy Feasts of Easter with our beloved
Children of this city, we will turn our steps to visiting those no
less beloved who are dispersed throughout the Diocese. Like a
loving father who has a numerous family who are not all around
him but dispersed in various places, he cannot do otherwise but
visit them from time to time to show them his affection, be
informed about their needs and, as much as he can, see to them,
giving salutary advice, and when necessary, loving correction.
So too the Bishop who cannot always have around him all the
sheep of the flock that God has entrusted to him, must go to visit
them in order to make them all participate in the spiritual goods
that, by his pastoral office, he is bound to dispense. Therefore,
your Bishop will come to you, dearly Beloved, for the good of
your souls; he will come according to the mandate that he

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