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In this regard, my dear Children, I am happy to announce that I have been able to fulfil my desire and that of many of you, to have in Rome a house of your Society and a procurator of your undertakings.

In 1882, a Circular letter from Lavigerie to the clergy of the dioceses of Algiers and Tunisia on the floods that are desolating Italy and ordinance prescribing a collection for the victims of these disasters.

You will no longer think of yourselves, of your comforts, your habits, your whims; everything will vanish before the great thought of the holy work with which our Lord associates you in the present time, and the endless reward that he promises you in eternity.

The difficult thing is to follow him when he carries his cross, and to carry it with him. And yet it is only by this sign that his true disciples recognize themselves: Si quis vult meus esse discipulus tollat crucem suam quotidie et sequatur me.

Therefore, my dear Children, be of only one heart and one soul; only in this way will you retain the grace and strength to face the difficulties of the outside world, whatever happens.