article Gian Paolo Meucci on Don Facibeni
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I met Joy
"Laetatus sum quae dicta sunt mihi in His: In domus Domini ibimus"
"I was glad when they said go to the house of the Lord! "
(Psalm 121)
In him we met Joy. Joy is not a virtue, is a gift of the fullness of humanity. In the Gospel, the Lord never speaks of joy, but of peace and bliss, from which it springs, as polla spring, the magical gift of joy. Give joy, is to give God the sadness and the evil because it is denied to "Laetitia" is an escape from humanity and together with the bliss of God A gift of joy that you are not in themselves, and there is joy as a something of our own but it exists in us because the others reflect, in us, the face of God, in the transparency of our joyful holiness. A gift that the Lord does through us, and then, joy is deep piety, love, is a substitute for the shortcomings of others with the fullness of our gift ...
Don Facibeni passes in our lives with the gift of his joy. The light there is, total, total is as bright and his piety and his gift of love. It is a creature who has discovered that the only dream of the man who did not annihilate, it is the dream of a joy given to large hands. Do not talk about charity in the case of the Father, it seems absurd, but at one point, speaking of charity and holiness ends up losing the measure, including human, of his gift is a way, almost, to keep it away from us on a plan that is no longer ours, that is, small men closed to charity and love, hasty to dismiss the possibility of a comparison because it sounds gross demonstration of deafness the call of God, common to all Christians. In front of her joy, which is also ours, one is disarmed, taken, subdued. Who will write about the joy of the Saints who won the sadness of the devil? No, why should you write about the mysterious workings of God's grace in the soul of a creature. Lost in our rationality, always ask a man to whom he is the bearer idea, do not ever ask him to be the bearer of joy. Charity of the saints are not carriers of complaints or ideas, are only carriers of joyful piety among men. They did not receive, do not cover, they do not the fathers of the orphans, the humble guide, discovered the talents of God, and they do all this because men bear the priceless gift of joy: Don Facibeni is truly one of the three kings that leads to the cradle of humanity suffers a gift more precious than gold. Who will write his life he will have to take, grasp, like this: the act or to pass through the streets of men with his mysterious wealth of compassion, a man without a historic time, always, always falling sick, or suffer in the act of most frightening and searing loneliness, the sadness of all men, the same sadness of the devil. O in the solitude of anxiety, fear, temptation in faith, or in the gift of joy. When I met Don Facibeni? When you have known you so that you can be his closer? Do not remember the time, you can not remember him because his presence is not left in the human and the incident soon as it is known, has worn the entire time a before or after. It is a known him forever, as has always been a feeling of being known by the Lord when He is present to us in prayer.
Facibeni So Don is the past and is present in our lives and the life of Christianity in Florence. Thank you Lord for having given us in him, your joy.
'The Home', December 22, 1957
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