Fisichella: Persons with Disabilities, true Christian love witnesses

Benedita Capli – Vatikan Seydad

Open umbrellas and many hats to protect themselves from the spring sun, colored shirts to determine the group to which they belong. It is the Plaza de San Pedro framework where hundreds of people with disabilities, accompanied by their relatives and caregivers, are accompanied by their careers, in the jubilee and in Christian education from Monsignor Rino Fisichella, former Propers of Dicastery for evangelization. It is the salutation in Lis that opens the moment of prayer and thinking in which people from 95 countries participate: from Japan, Bolivia, the United States and many others. “The entire world is here today in Plaza de San Pedro,” says bishops.

La Esperanza, flame must be recycled

Vicishila says that the jubilee of people with disabilities, it is the jubilee of hope, from this hope, which accompanies everyone in the awakening, and we do not notice it, but this directs our whole life. The flame that must be recycled, which nourishes the mind and heart. The true hope, which is not related to quick things, remembers the face of Jesus, on the face of Jesus Nazareth, and therefore the invitation is walking next to him, allowing us to direct his word, and giving a testimony with gestures and life options because he hopes for everyone, no one excludes.

Weakness, a tool for love more

“You are in the heart of the church,” Monsignor Fisichella says, referring to the most vulnerable, fragile and weak people often do not get the attention they deserve. In weakness – he explains – we must find our profession in the church; Weakness is a tool for love more. Make disability the power of love that occurs to everyone; No one but you can testify to Christian love.

Creative and cheerful

The bishop’s call is not to appear in the other direction: “I was long in the shade, that is the time to revive hope”, because who suffers from weakness witnesses the love of Christ. Then the introduction tells the story of a child born in a noble family in 1013 in Susabia. A disabled and deformed child assigned a monastic society. He was called the boy, Irman, and he did not know how to speak or write, but the monks welcomed him with love. He learned Latin, Greek, mathematics, music and even Arabic, then died because of the pleura. “Do you know why this story told you?” The Question of Vesicilla, “Because Irman wrote Salifi Regeina”, the prayer of faith born from a handicapped child “who suffered from true hope, true and loving faith of Mary, the mother of mercy.” Therefore, Fisichella concludes that we should never surrender, “Be more creative, cheerful, able to deliver hope within us.” Finally, the Coral Song, in honor of Arman, from Salve Regina in all the languages ​​of the city in the field.

Care and love certificates

After the moment of prayer, there was space for some certificates. From the state of Kerala, India, through a video clip, the Monsignor Mar Jose Billen, the bishop of Iberquoya in Kanjabali, narrates the “Angels Village” experience, an initiative that provides opportunities for education, training and rehabilitation for more than two hundred children with mental effects. Alessio Carbali and Parbra Raka, and parents of two children between the ages of 22 and 15, both of whom suffer from severe autism, remember the suffering that lived when they discovered their children’s disability. “I have destroyed our family’s plan,” says Alicio. “We asked for help, learned to redesign our lives, live again and not to survive.” Barbara expresses her hope: Everyone can look at the other without a hurry, and offer a smile, “Let’s not always enjoy the life of every day and at work, let’s always stop.”

Anamaria, Mario, Rafayel and Lavinia tells their stories, all of this from the diocese of the Holy Martyrs in Uganda, Rome. She explains a 20 -year -old ancient and studies at the university, explaining that he lost his sister Eliana, the disabilities, a few years ago. She is frank, designed and wants to say that she is in front of San Pedro as a Christian expert and not as a relative of a disabled person. It is clear in the head that the inclusion of an adult is often characterized by sympathy or help; The child is welcome, friendship and love. He then invites us to educate our children together, with or without disabilities, because only growth together can change our point of view. The RAFFO experience is also moving, and it does not speak but it has the sound of lavinia. He is 13 years old, in his testimony he says he seems strange but he understands, notes, understands. He talks about the beauty of his flock, to Pope Francis and the black shoes he took to the end, a sign of his connection to others. “Like him,” he writes, “I would like to use my shoes to help others.”