Dear Family, brothers, friends, missionary groups and associations, how are you? I hope good!
After a week of my return to Chile would like to talk to you some feelings and emotions in my heart. I arrived in Chile last Saturday with a discrete atmosphere, although not very hot summer weather, the passage from north to south in the world has not been very sharp and painful: the flight was comfortable and the fifteen flying hours have passed quickly, a little 'reading and a bit' asleep.
I must tell you that for me it was nice to spend some days in the convent of St. James and the brothers find that I had left in December and sound nostalgia has become a joy to start over. Instead to return to Curico, Monday, Feb. 7, are broken down by Saldana (Argentina) where we have a convent (house training) on \u200b\u200bthe outskirts of Cordoba. In fact I left for Argentina because I went in the house training our postulant Elías, who just the other day (Feb. 10) began his journey in the postulate. This event, for us it's really important Chilean brothers, especially after the sudden and unexpected death of Eduardo Meneses Delgui Riquelme (Argentina drowned in December 14, 2009 shortly before he entered the novitiate): postulant accompany Elijah means that the seed Franciscan convent begins to sprout in our own land in Chile. However I do not want to dwell on this event and I wish, as I said at the beginning of my letter to share some feelings in my heart, after my stay in Italy. In just over a month I stayed in Italy I visited in the first place my family and my people Nones: always friendly, interested in the lives of its missionaries. People always attentive and generous to those who work in distant lands. Then I had the opportunity to meet so many monks and monasteries to be hosted in various homes and training: it was nice to get a great reception everywhere, all sorts of little experience and an interest in every place in our lives. It is important and good for the heart, for us missionaries fall in the Province and a feeling of home, receive lots of love, to experience a lot of attention and interest that changes in aid to the poor and unfortunate.
Certainly in my heart and I can not forget the various meetings with many associations, the meet and communicate with the postulants in Brescia, with the clergy at St. Maximus, greet newcomers to Assisi to celebrate Coredo the various liturgies.
I remember so many faces and in my heart a lot of life experience, it seemed good to share the time spent in Italy with the moment of meeting with children and adults, groups and associations, visiting the elderly and the sick, listening to real life, and not the last to spend a few days at home. Praying for one others has enriched each other, the dialogue about issues missionary has expanded our horizons, to live the funny moments of fraternity has united us all, we felt God's people, or better, and we felt brothers who all follow the one Lord in the style of Francis of Assisi.
With this paper I wish to thank each and every one of you for all that I have received, for the many moments of shared prayer, for the affection that I experienced, for a lot of attention and concrete help. Heartfelt thanks also on behalf of so many brothers from Chile who will be benefited because of your prayers, care and generosity.
would like to share with you some experience feelings we have lived with the six young leaders of Copiapo. They also told me to thank you so much for the welcome and for the sincere hospitality
received, they too have felt at home in the various monasteries that have hosted and the various groups met (this is also the reality that most hit them). I believe that the days spent in Italy do not forget so easily and not only for good Italian food, but more for what they have experienced and received. From their first thought seems to me that this experience of interchange between churches has left the good fruits in their hearts, what I hope is this is the case in the various missionary groups,
gifra ... we have encountered. Again, thank you very much for everything you have done for us, a fraternal greeting to each of you, the Lord of life and history fulfills the wishes and bless you carry in your heart.
Saldana, 11 de febrero de 2011
I end this letter on February 13 and today I find myself Curicó: I must tell you that the reception was not the quietest. In fact here still feel the shaking of an earthquake strong enough (to say Friday, February 11th at 17:06 in the afternoon he rang the bell-it-alone in my room, think about how to dance the house!). It seems that the earthquake brother keep us awake and tell us who we really are weak, so fragile and insecurity e a volte anche la paura riemergono nel nostro intimo.
Anche se ancora lontani dalla quaresima (credo che non ci sentiremo per questa data), vi auguro di cuore un buon cammino quaresimale. I quaranta giorni che ci preparano alla Pasqua del Signore risorto siano un cammino per incontrare, nella nostra vita, la luce di Cristo vincitore di ogni tenebra e liberatore di ogni oppressione: tutto questo sia la strada che ci conduce alla pace del risorto affinché sia Lui a riempire il nostro cuore di speranza per costruire un mondo solidario, giusto e riconciliato.
Paz y bien a todos!
fr. Tullio
