Fear prayer, intersections of looks and stories

Benedita Capli – Vatikan Sidad

There is a city around Bollas around the Termini station, and it is made of people running so that they do not lose the train, reach an agreed date or wait for a person who may return on vacation. But there is also another city that barely mixes it with the first city: it is the city of the cardboard that becomes a bed that becomes a bed, and the shopping bags that are seized strongly, bottle and cigarettes are the company. It is an invisible city, and people may not choose to live in the street, and this is usually called the “poor Christ”.

Crares who chose to revive Jesus’ passion in the streets near the station, with those faces that have become relatives because they were known in the social food room “John Paul II” or at the Cáritas “Don Luigi di Liegro”, which provide shelter and heat for those who live outside the station. Via Crucis Degli Invisibili focuses on the appearance that becomes open to the other, the relationship, and care. In its second edition, the initiative was organized by Cáritas de Rome in cooperation with Salesians of the Basilica of the Sacred Hear of Castro Pretorio.

In the look, we find God

Inside Bazilica, we test the first season: Jesus looks at us with love. “This afternoon – we are in the meditation booklet – we choose not only to see those around us, but we see in our time, let’s see the appearance of the other, which can have a profound change in change. He realized that in this appearance, we can find God.” The procession, which was formed by ordinary people, the guests of the De Lieju, the poor, the nuns and the priests, goes out to March. The camel records the steps with the Friday movement, from the advertisements from the station, for people who run for an important thing. However, the contrast slowly relieves, some look curious about this humanity that walks, some stop, and some are persecuted. There is no indifference, but it may be curious to understand this cross that seems unusual in such a place.

The first station in Bazilica, the holy heart of Jesus

Monsignor Di Tolving: “The relationship makes us live”

Monsignor Michel de Tofis, assistant bishop of Rome, presided over the procession. “We must remember the looks of Jesus towards Zakayos,” He assured the Vatican media, “If we leave ourselves for the brother’s view, we realize that the Lord is the one who searches for us in that view, and this is what we want to witness, and we are humble between others, but finding the appearance of people.” Bishop’s invitation is to recognize those who consider it differently from ourselves, “because we are fragile, poor, in need, it must make us need the other we realize our needs,” and this adds, and this would do us well, and we often feel very insulting to reach fixed goals that we have spent on the relationship that makes us live instead. “

Triancia: The Crucis De La Esperanza via

When the sun begins, invisible humanity continues to walk towards a shelter via Marsala, the last station of Crucis Road. “This is a city,” explains Giustino Triancia, director of Cáritas Roma, very unwanted, but often you don’t want to see. Therefore, the issue we bring to this through Crucis, on the one hand, the appearance calls on everyone to look at these people, but also to look at the other topic also on great hope. “Crucis via Crucis is a path that concludes hope, because at the end of the rule it is Jesus Christ, who is dead but has been solved, which ends. Cáritas, “In fact, all this is not the reason, but the effect of great inequality, the injustice of the economy, a society does not put a person in the center, and human dignity.”

Andres holds the cross

Andres and Sulaibah

There are seven stations in which many people carry, including André, the cross. He lives in the shelter, and he has very clear eyes, it is impossible not to meet that appearance that shows an old suffering, a sin that has not yet been forgiven because he feels seriously beating his father. There is a word that is always repeated: “The Family”, it needs it, searching for it, would like to restore it, and yearn for it. He wants his daughter Michella again and misses his partner, but he knows that at this stage he must continue along the Renaissance path in which he started, so he thanks the sincerity of the workers who support him. “Why did you participate in Crucis via? It is a gesture that I had to do, and I felt that I should do that, because – it’s his answer – we are all somewhat uniform.” “In life, it is important, in my opinion, pray, play music and know how to reconcile with God.” In this jubilee of hope, he talked about this shape that is the red thread of the crucis road. “Hope is the light in our eyes, it is to find people and speak directly with people, whether good things, bad things, fall, and trips, from the kilometers there to go in particular to meet one day with my family, I can no longer be far away but I know that there is someone on my side, I have no only prayer!”

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Via Crucis of the Invisible