January

Let’s start this new year that God’s love gives us being aware that the Christian life is before all a gift  that gives us joy and  it nourishes our life with prayer, love, service to all in total gratuitousness. The possibility of doing good is in itself  such a great reward that nothing and nobody in the whole world can give us anything alike, as beautiful and rewarding: no money in the world, no bow of people, no  clapping of crowds…….can give us  the same joy that we find in living good and we have the immense fortune of being able to do it, what a “nice story!”.
We must learn to do it properly. I always tell the youth: “Good must be done well”.
This sometimes bring us pain, tears, loss…but if we love we welcome all this; even when someone throws “rocks” at us…let’s not worry, let’s accept to be cast aside, provided that life wins and good prevails.
We are here at the beginning of this new year to give life to ourselves first of all: a renewed life and a concrete , lively faith, the faith of deeds, of love because there is no greater deed than love and love  asks us to forgive many times, to start again ,to have pity on the others and to trust them, to believe that inside of us there is living Jesus, the new Man that makes us new. Young people are looking  for life, for the truth, the love, the consistency of what we propose to them. So we must live what we say and we have chosen to live as Christians ,to follow Jesus and we want to live Him with love.
All our miseries and poverties don’t prevent us from trying: let me tell you that we are a happy Community because we have understood that we are loved by our Lord because we are sinners and so we are happy.
When young people come to the Community we never ask them  what their qualities are, but we tell them:” Put  all your sins with ours before God’s Mercy” ;that’s why we love each other so much ,because nobody can boast, on the contrary each one starts from nothing, from “ground zero”, I’m the first… and we feel so well down there because when we fall we don’t get hurt  .
We must be happy of what we are: only starting from there we want and can become people  with dignity ,honesty, goodness , love.
Let’s believe with all our strength, our will, our love that Jesus is alive, He is our Lord and our
 God :He leads our steps today and for ever. He is the never-ending novelty, He is the joy of life!

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