Dear readers friendsthere are poverty of all kinds, close to us or distant. Some have the “fortune” – If we can say so – to get to the attention of public opinion, setting in motion national and international solidarity chains: we think about aid to Ukraine or the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip. Visible conflicts, which impose themselves on public attention.
But there are also many conflicts “Forget”because they are away from us. Similarly, there are also poverty and suffering that remain “Invisible” despite being “Close”.
I focus on two who made me a lot of reflect these days.
A few days ago, an article of Happen He focused on the fate of the orphans of femicidegiving news of the first contribution collected by the non -profit organization “Olga’s dream”of the Association “Olga – Educate against all forms of violence”of which Giuseppe Delmonte is president.
The chronicles deal – rightly – of the cases of femicide, telling them for a long time, but then, once the spotlight is off, the fate of many children and young people who lost their mother at the hands of the father, who then finds herself in prison, He falls into the oblivion.
There are no precise statistics, but it is estimated that there are between 2 and 3 thousand young people in this situation of painful orphantance, sometimes themselves spectators or even victims of mistreatment and violence.
Often to deal with it are the grandparents, which are hardly able to guarantee them adequate growth conditions. Boys without parents and homeless, without financial support (the state guarantees 300 euros per month) and without a psychological support for the processing of trauma immediately.
“How many boys and girls can no longer study after the killing of the mother?”noted Delmonte that, starting from his own history, he had the idea of setting up an association that meets the needs, economic and psychological, of the orphans of femicide.
Another poverty, not very visible and little happens but real, was remembered by Pope Leone XIV In the Message for the IX World Day of the poor 2025 Published a few days ago: “The most serious poverty is not to know God”.
And of this poverty, paradoxically, the poorest suffers, as he explained by quoting the words of Pope Francis: «The worst discrimination of which the poor suffer is the lack of spiritual attention. The immense majority of the poor has a special opening to faith; They need God and we cannot neglect to offer them his friendship, his blessing, his word, the celebration of the sacraments and the proposal of a path of growth and maturation in faith “.
The speech today can be widen, without too many forcing, to the many who live the labor of one spiritual research And they find a guide or a landing.
How do our parishes, our groups towards this new form of “spiritual” poverty?
Two of the works of spiritual mercy ask to “Recommend the doubtful and teach the ignorant”. Updated, they retain their validity. As long as there is someone capable of see this form of inconspicuous poverty.
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