Community Life
Bose, 27 November 2007
The life of the community over the last few months has been marked by an event that we have recognized as a gift and have accepted with profound gratitude: the stay among us of Vittoria Nardini, a friend who used to frequent our monastery for many years
The life of the community over the last few months has been marked by an event that we have recognized as a gift and have accepted with profound gratitude: the stay among us of Vittoria Nardini, a friend who used to frequent our monastery for many years and in the last few years also organized courses of Biblical Hebrew for our guests, and who, when the state of her health deteriorated last May, came to Bose, to die in our midst. In the homily that br. Enzo delivered at her funeral, he invited us to recognize in all their profoundness the Lord’s workings in this act of communion that was granted us live in the death of a friend of ours, as has already happened other times in the past. “Our community has not yet experienced the death of one of its members, nevertheless, already five other times a wanderer, a friend, friends, have come to die here, and we have been at their side. I want to say that this is truly a great gift that the Lord has given us, and we hope that he will do it again! It is not we who have given something to Etta, to Cocco, to Ligio, to Remo, to Muretin, but they who had given us a gift, and those in the community who have experienced their friendship know just how much they have given us… We have simply taken them in, we did not even decide that they come, but life and history, which means the Lord has given us these occasions of grace.” A community, we believe, is also made up of a shared memory and of the remembrance, full of gratitude, of friends who are now dead: how can we not recall those who recently have preceded us in the hope of resurrection?
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