Candles acquire a warm and tender radiance during the Christmas season, don’t they?
The centre of the festive season is a homeless child – a child that had to be born in a stable. Quite appropriately, therefore, the two ‘candles’ I will hold aloft for you this time have a ‘homeless’ connection.
Murdered by a Man He had helped
The President of Italy, Sergio Mattarella, announced on 7 October 2020 that he had just signed a decree, conferring the country’s highest honour for civil valour on a Catholic priest, Fr Roberto Malgesini.
Fr Malgesini was known for his selfless service to the homeless and migrants in his diocese of Como in Northern Italy. He was the coordinator of a group that helped the homeless and others in difficult situations, like the migrants. Every morning, along with volunteers, he got ready warm food and took it to the homeless people. If the homeless people could not find a shelter for the night, he let them sleep in the church.
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