The homily is entrusted to him, articulated on the polarity of love-lack of love. "Love is the most powerful transformative force of the interior," he recalled, "and through people, this force can also intervene on external reality: it generates a change that lasts forever. How grateful we must be to all those who, like Francis de Sales and Don Bosco, helped us to discover and live the Love of Loves!"
It is a Love that lets itself be discovered: “He is the one who worked the marvel of Creation; the one who has descended to our humblest and darkest reality; He who made every single human being His abode. And not content with 'giving so much good', He wanted to 'give himself', emptying himself, so that we can all inhabit the space-of-himself that He has opened for us, and from which we can enter into our particular dialogue of Love with Him, in friendship with Him."
The participants in the Days, both those present in Valdocco (150) and those connected via web (10,000) are themselves witnesses and direct protagonists of a love that changes lives and relationships. A dramatic but also consoling example of this was what happened at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. From India, the afternoon's sharing of experiences included that of the Salesian Youth Movement of Mumbai, which mobilized at the call of Fr Leon Cruz. They were able to build, with their spirit and their communication skills, a task force to help the people affected by the virus, searching extensively for the availability of oxygen cylinders, plasma, hospitalization. A movement of solidarity that also involved young people from outside the Salesian world, capable of giving them back the perception of having been decisive in many cases in saving lives.
Other testimonies, as in previous days, were shared through the projection of short documentaries and audio-video messages, showing the concreteness of the charism indicated by St. Francis de Sales. One such testimony was that of the Daughters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, whose founder, Fr Luigi Variara, wished to devote himself to the leprosy sufferers of Agua de Dios (Colombia), where he arrived as a missionary sent by Fr Michele Rua. There, even today, the Salesian "victim" charism is practiced, that is, destined to give love without limits to people affected by disabilities, illnesses, social rejections. "To become holy through sacrifice, entrusting oneself to the will of God."
Or the testimony received from the Congregation of the Sisters of the Resurrection, which an Indian missionary, Fr Jorge Puthenpura, helped establish in Guatemala to "resurrect the peasants", brothers marginalized by public opinion. The first religious were illiterate and poorly trained from the point of view of catechesis, but they gave life to a movement that is now mature for the "formation" of the poorest, to many communities capable of self-evangelization. Today it is a reality that still seeks the least, the excluded, that the Sons that Don Bosco dreamed of.
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