Ciao Italy
Everything here is white, yesterday it snowed a lot. This
is another gift that I received in Italy. On Thursday the 9th of
December I’ll go back to Bozoum, where I’ll arrive on the 24th right
on time to celebrate the Midnight Mass that, for security reasons and
tradition, will take place at 07.00pm.
It’s rare for me to be in Europe just before Christmas.
Living in Italy is really beautiful, there are wonderful places that are well
preserved as a nice heritage for the future generations, as you can see in the
cities, the churches, the roads, the fields, the vineyards, the rice fields
and, last but not least, the cuisine. I met open-minded and warm people who
showed so much interest and love for Bozoum and Central Africa.
I introduced Bozoum to 200 students of Cuneo University,
parishes and communities receiving a lot of attention. Simple people that
sometimes renounce to their necessities to share them with people in need. Men and
women full of hope that despite the difficulties still know how to trust
and to love. Men and women that
despite their age carry with courage and simplicity the signs of their fatigue,
sometime of their suffering and often the difficulty of educating and proposing
the Joy and the Faith.
I would like to thank everybody, my religious Brothers
that welcome me with joy, my family hat is close to me with their love and
sometimes with pain because of my living so far away, all my friends and many
unknown people that shine by sharing their love. It’s true that during this time there are a
lot of distractions and many things that take us away from the real meaning of
Christmas, towards a light which is not the real one.
In a few days I’ll be in Central Africa celebrating Christmas
in Bozoum which it will surely be simpler and more focused. I wish all of you a
meaningful Christmas where the light is Him: God becoming flesh in order to
make all of us closer to Him and better men and women.
Merry Christmas.
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