a number of years served with "Good Samaritans" Station of SM Novella, the Volunteers meet at the track before the first Catholic chapel in the morning at seven o'clock on Tuesday, Thursdays and Sundays, to offer and share a breakfast of solidarity. There are people in need in the prevalence of Eastern Europe but also North Africa, Albania, Peru, few Italians, many spent the night sleeping on a cardboard and are relieved to drink a coffee. Give everyone a smile with a piece of chocolate and listen to the problems of those seeking a home and a job for life is important, because a chat and confide in someone goes even a momentary relief, you feel less alone.
"Good Samaritans" were born some seventeen years ago, the initiative was promoted by the indefatigable Paul Coccheri, after a long career as actor and director of the International Laboratory of the actor "in Florence has taken the path of voluntary work, lining up in support of the weakest. To help the Samaritans to mature in a path of sharing and solidarity distributes photocopies taken from articles, essays and interviews: this is what Paul calls "University of the road" where next to endless courses of hope, humanity, courage and selflessness, is taught to live life with loyalty, respect and practice skills and virtues into disuse, in a world that carry the banner of arriving society, and selfishness abounds.
Last week I had the gift of a copy of "Matins" Ravasi, published on January 3, 1999 Future, entitled "Deliver us from fear," with a prayer written by Dag Hammarskjöld. Swedish politician, was Secretary General from 1953 until his death in 1961, when the plane which was headed for a Congo peace mission crashed. Probably the text of this reworking of the Our Father, is from her personal diary that transpires intense spirituality, so he turns to God Hammarskjöld:
Hallowed be thy name, not mine.
Thy kingdom, not mine.
be done Thy will, not mine. Dona
peace with you,
peace with men,
peace with ourselves
and deliver us from fear.
I appreciated the comment by Ravasi is significant that this Our Father who calls for a victory over every form of selfishness and the gift of peace with God, with others and with themselves. It affects in particular the last sentence, because if it is important to be delivered from evil it is just "being released by the embrace of mortal fear," which is different from fear or from a sense of respect we have for God and for others. Fear is the temptation to cowardice, to withdraw into themselves, and mean to be inert, incapable of facing the great horizons of life. "
Just reading the "Diary" of Hammarskjöld reveals how her life after a youth full of hope and optimism, was about forty-five in a deep crisis in which he felt so empty to want to commit suicide, despite being a man made. Then the shooting to coincide with the appointment to the UN, in early 1953, and then becomes positive attitude towards the future, answers a simple "Yes" to God in the world, the fate and life, leaving leaves every fear
do not know who, or what, asked the question. I do not know where it was placed. I do not remember what I said. But once I answered "Yes" to someone or something. At that time dates the certainty that the existence makes sense and that therefore my life, in the submission is for a purpose. From that moment I knew what "no turning back" and "not worry about tomorrow."
Hammarskjöld's right, I share this thought, which is crucial in the journey of life is to live intensely the present, be free from fear and not worry about tomorrow, because after all worry about is an insult to the gift of life.
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