ACSE ONLINE a.3 No. 16
On July 17 The ACSE has recalled, with a Mass at the operative Archbishop Oscar Rizzato, its founders P. Renato P Bresciani and Paolo Serra, the Comboni Missionaries.
P. Renato Bresciani after many years of missioe in Sudan was expelled in 1964 and arrived in Rome, he took to heart the plight of Sudanese migrants. It was the first in Italy to raise awareness of the civil and religious societies and the problem of immigrants that has become a national problem. Assistance first began in 1969 and then expanding to all the Sudanese refugees and immigrants.
P. Paolo Serra took the reins of the ACS in 1995 after the death of P. Renato and led the ACSE until 2005. On July 19
We wrote Candioli Adriano, who has known them both
Dear, Sunday I wanted to say a few things about these two beautiful figures of the Comboni, I do now with my note.
Father Bresciani and Father Serra had two great gifts, to see things that others do not see and know how to involve lay people on the big issues of social importance, as the fight against poverty, social inclusion, housing, ability to emergence of hidden qualities that are in us and that they had identified. and that we were working together to discover and exploit. I remember that Father Bresciani, going three times a week in prison, he had noted that immigrants were less then one percent of the total population, the country accounted for more than 20% of the prison population. Strengthened by this experience, when they arrived in Rome about two thousand refugees from Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia his first concern was to subtract all these people from the risk of ending up in prison, because in hell to get there when it is not working and there is nothing to feed their children. Was triggered at the first major operation of reception and I commend the city of Rome had experienced before then. Many families attending the ACSE were directly involved in the operations of custody their children, were mobilized parishes in the city: Many of us participated in the great mobilization and experience that the reception is not an ideological issue, but the heart, the ability to listen to others in their diversity of culture and religion. Therefore not only welcome children but their whole family so atavistic overcoming prejudices and stereotypes. Father Serra was a great insight to work for the "return" of young graduates, equipped with technical and professional skills to be put at the service of Africa because the lure of well-being, then as now, big steal intellectual resources in that continent. From intuition was born the first report of "partnership" in the world Comboni ACSE association between alternative economic relationship that has now extended to other groups such as Friends Somirenec for Central Africa and the Land of All. E 'in their memory and their example that these initiatives are being pursued. I would like to continue my remarks on the figures of Father Serra Father Bresciani and focusing them on issues of foster care. The custody of a child is part of the great experiences of fatherhood. Many of us have fathers in the "flesh" in that they have raised children, but paternity has features that arises from reliance deeply different, is "spiritual" nature, but also temporarily included in this great line of caritas, in the gift of self. Although a more spiritual nature, however, is quite different from that of the spiritual / religious a. It 's a wealth enjoyed by not only the adoptive father but the whole society, is part of the transforming principle of accommodation, we can not accept the alien to the input port of the city but should be welcomed in that family is the core of society. . In my family came five "reliable", then I can say I had a rich experience of this institution. I have to thank Father Bresciani that, giving us this possibility, made us understand the richness of this type of love. And I heard the words resonate within me that God has put on the mouth of the prophet Ezekiel: "I will take this heart of stone, put within you a heart of flesh." I made so many experiences of fatherhood, but all arise from the Heart of the Father, this is also in the line of the spirit Comboni, from the contemplation of the "pierced heart" born different experiences of love. When you hear this work in tea processing, then all your emotions, your commitment to others feel that opens to 360 degrees. What I heard was most likely also experience many others, and then the multiplicity of these rely on the company has created an experience that should not be removed but valued. adriano
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