Here and above Simone Stifani, 33 years old, journalist of Radio Orantes, the broadcaster of the Benedictine nuns of Lecce (photo in the article by Maria Pansini)
A clear voice speaks to you from Radio Orantes, the broadcaster of the Benedictine nuns of Lecce. It is a young, crystalline voice offering a meditation or interviewing a guest. From online radio he enters families’ homes every day and every day accompanies the faithful in a new story.
Who does it belong to? It’s the voice of Simone Stifani33 years old, journalist from Lecce with a degree in Religious Sciences. He recently published a book for Qiqajonthe publishing house of the Monastery of Bose, entitled Disability is not a vocationwritten together with Luciano Manicardithe former prior of the monastic community which also has a headquarters in Puglia, in Ostuni.
And in this essay he expressed a simple but decisive concept: «Stop treating us like God’s chosen ones. Stop treating us like saints who have suffered the suffering that only we can bring. We are not saints or even heroes. We are people, in the image and likeness of God, just like everyone else.”
«The point is that we always refer to an image of God that is distorted», explains Stifani, «God is eternal and omnipotent but we forget that he became incarnate in Jesus of Nazareth, that is, he took on a human nature, and therefore also all its limits. God is that limit, but another aspect also counts: the wonder of Jesus lies not only in his resurrection after death but in his entire life. We cannot reduce his life to the cross, just as we cannot reduce the life of a disabled person to his disability: all life is a salvific gift.”
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