Maria Cristina is a foster mother of Francesco, a twenty -year -old boy who suffers from spastic tetraparesis for a prenatal hypoxia. She and Luca, her husband, are the parental figures and the managers of a family home of the Pope John XXIII family in the Veneto, in the province of Padua. Francesco concluded the ITIS with a computer address this summer and had to face maturity.
“The option of not making oralman” says Maria Cristina “it has never been contemplated. Francesco could have made a mutual scene but chose to get involved to prove to himself and to others who through determination, constancy can be overcome his limits. He maturity and, in particular oral, he lived them as an important appointmentbecause they were the opportunity to say and say all the things he had in the heart and mind. He prepared himself on the subjects and in front of the first image he was placed, he made all the requested connections ».
Only for the presentation of his school path did he help artificial intelligence. “Which allowed him to summarize all years spent in that school, from the difficulty of understanding the new subjects, to the pandemic and, finally, to the notorious (as Francesco calls him) an examination of high school and he could not do for his disability but that he wanted to do”. On the other hand, giving the best! “He wanted to get to 80 and graduated with 86.”
Dad Luca is also very proud of the result achieved: «For him it was an opportunity for self -esteem and validation towards the external gaze, The opportunity to recover the right place in the stage of life. Francesco, moreover, did a part in Only beautiful things A 2019 film in which, in a fictional form, of the family homes of Pope John XXIII there is talk.
For ten years, Valnogaredo’s rectory has been the house of Luca and Maria Cristina who, with their two natural children, have lived together with other minors, mothers girls, people with fragility who welcome inspire to the style of Don Oreste Benzi, the “tireless apostle of charity” as Pope Benedict XVI defined him of which, on September 7, the 100 years resort to birth.
«Our family homes are in multi -state and try to recreate family dynamics so that everyone can play their own social role. Unforgettable (since the world of grandparents and the elderly occurs today, editor’s note) Ancilla, an ultraottanenne lady, who was with us during the day. It was also decisive for our children. His importance was seen when our firstborn Marta, who had not known his grandparents, wrote in a theme of grandmother Ancilla and the stories about the Second World War he told ».
The amazement mixed with tenderness. «The elderly play a decisive role. Never as today we need real and real testimonies on the field through emotions, sensations and feelings. For our vocational experience, the role of grandfather can be played beyond biology because The role is a choice. So it applies to mom and dad, a choice is not enough the chemical process, the egg, the spermatozoa etc. Being parents chooses, otherwise there would be no abandonments ».
