Love for the other and for justice can guide the choices of life: it has always been the message that animates the Community of Sant’Egidio And that is reflected in a dramatic testimony, that of Floribert, a member of the same community.
The next episode of On the way of Damascusbroadcast on 27 July, 8.30, on Rai Tre, will see the participation of Marco Impagliazzopresident of the Community of Sant’Egidio, and will focus first on the life and sacrifice of Floribert Bwana chuia young Congolese who decided to let himself be shaped by love, making the compass of his existence.
His testimony, told through an interview with his postulator, Don Francesco Tedeschi, highlights how Faith can become the engine of courageous choices and a life dedicated to others. Floribert, customs, has chosen to refuse evil to the end; Killed in 2007 for having denied it to pass loads of avaried food, thus protecting the health and hopes of the poorest.
Beatified on Sunday 15 June last in the Roman basilica of San Paolo outside the walls, the next day Pope Leone said about him- remembering how “young people can be” a ferment of unarmed and disarming peace “-” “Floribert was a man of peace. In a region so suffering as the Kivu, torn by violence, carried on his battle for peace with mildness, serving the poor, practicing friendship and encounter in a torn society “.
And again, said the Pontiff, in the hearing to the pilgrims of the Democratic Republic of the Congo who arrived in Rome precisely for his beatification: “where a young man drew the strength to resist corruption, rooted in the current mentality and capable of all violence? The choice to keep the hands clean, was an official to the customs, matured in a consciousness formed by prayer, by listening to the Word of God, by communion with the brothers. The spirituality of the Community of Sant’Egidio lived, which Pope Francis summarized with three “p”: prayer, poor, peace. The poor were decisive in his life. Blessed Floribert lived a familiarity engaged with the street boys, pushed to Goma by the war, despised and orphans ».
Within the program of Vito Sidotialso the story of George, Syrian, except thanks to humanitarian corridors. Following, a space dedicated to young people, with the voices from the Ecolab of Rome, a project that represents a fundamental ring of the large chain of solidarity of Sant’Egidio, edited by young people for peace to help many people in difficulty. The direction is by Marina Gambini.
Cover photo, ANSA
