Let's not deny the little ones from discovering the dark sides of life
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Children are often prevented from making any effort
by Graziella Fons
The pain of children constitutes the rock on which our anger breaks in the face of evil in the world in which children are innocent victims. The irruption of Jesus into the life of humanity has upset all human logic and where Jesus met his ignominious death, the light of hope has dawned. If the tenderness of God in the heart of Jesus triumphed over human selfishness, then we have the right to look at the future illuminated by hope. It is a hope that is shaped along the tortuous paths of life. The gym, where this divine plasma is generated, a gift from the God of life, is the family. Pope Francis said that «the family has always been the closest “hospital”. It is the mother, the father, the brothers, the sisters, the grandmothers who guarantee care and help to heal." Jesus became one of us to know the weight of suffering and to give credence to his word of consolation; in fact: «No word can be credible if we do not know how to inhabit the places of suffering».
Apostles, witnesses and good Samaritans
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In the month of October, in addition to the recitation of the Holy Rosary, it seems that the liturgy has the task of reminding us of the copious and tasty fruits of holiness, offered by the example of the saints remembered in the liturgical calendar in this month. The month of October commemorates the feminine genius with two holy "doctors", experts in doctrine and sanctity: Saint Teresa of Lisieux, on October 1st, and Saint Teresa of Avila, on October 15th. Both saints lived a spirituality greatly inspired by the example of Saint Joseph. The first, who desired "to be like the heart for the Church", in the flowerbed of holiness, is a delicate, fragile and gentle flower. Due to her wise journey into holiness, during the XII Youth Day in 1997 in Paris, John Paul II proposed her to young people as a model of possible holiness. On October 18, the Church will also canonize the father and mother of Saint Therese. The second, Saint Teresa of Avila, both in character and spirit of enterprise, completes the characteristics of Saint Therese's holiness.
The Lord also lives in the high mountains of our house
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From a story by Oreste Forno
by Graziella Fons
In the history of every soul "there are many hidden passages and winding corridors", but also unexplored peaks that offer the exhilaration and a sweet nostalgia of a joyful past to make one return and rediscover the footsteps erased by the wind and sand. There are many heady circumstances capable of deviating from a path considered fulfilling and safe. At times, stormy circumstances, missed appointments, paralyzing tiredness, have caused the splendor of ideals even though cultivated with such passion to be lost. In Luoghi dell'Infinito, a monthly magazine of Art and Culture, published as an attachment to the newspaper Avvenire, Oreste Forno, mountaineer and journalist, recounted his experience of rediscovering faith thanks to the encounter with the natural beauty of the Alps, especially with the gaze bewitched by the Lombardy peaks, which were the backdrop to Don Guanella's life.
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