At the end of 1964 the possibility of a return to Florence began to emerge. However, there was opposition from the Florentine archbishop. For this reason a compromise was found: the Fiesole abbey, under the jurisdiction of the bishop of Fiesole. During these years there were many clashes and tensions with the top of the ecclesiastical hierarchy because of the positions, political and ideological, taken by Balducci. This did not prevent him from continuing his activities as a lecturer, teacher and writer. In the meantime, the Badia fiesolana had become a point of reference for a community of lay people and Scolopians who gathered around the Sunday liturgy he celebrated and who promoted meetings of reflection and solidarity both on the international level (with support for concrete initiatives) and in the city (for example, in the field of psychiatry or prisons). He had thus created for himself a small local Church, a Eucharistic community in which he meditated on the word and from which he said and wrote that he drew inspiration. The Badia community was visited several times by Cardinal Piovanelli (archbishop of Florence since 1983) and participated in the work of the Florentine synod.