If I didn’t have faith or believe in God,
I would still be searching for them to kill them or do something to them.
They will be responsible for it; it’s on their conscience!
Why did they do it?
What was their motive?
“We have Luisa.”
And they spoke with the guerrillas and each call was so painful.
I truly hated these people.
It caused my dad to fall sick.
I would often place myself in front of the Blessed Sacrament and demand from Him:
“Why is my father sick and all this is happening to Luisa
and each day everything is becoming more complicated?”
COLOMBIA
He told me: “I’m here with Jeronima, the maid,
and I found your brother dead here.”
And he said: “They also found my mother,
and she’s dead too.”
ELOISA AND VICENTE WERE MURDERED IN 2014
I never could have imagined this could ever happen
because they lived in a house in an area that was very safe.
The police have been investigating it,
but they haven’t found those who are responsible.
URUGUAY
RURAL FARM HOMES FOR RECOVERING DRUG ADDICTS
They come here as human wrecks
and we get to know them very well because we spend all day with them.
ALEJANDRO, A VOLUNTEER
After 3 or 4 months. these boys or girls
are different people; they find a reason for living
in work, in living alongside others, and in spirituality.
FELIZ AND MARITA, VOLUNTEERS
Helping them so that their good desires truly result in
a specific solution for their life.
The root of the problem is always
a lack of love.
Because our difficulties (I was interned here and I saw this)
come down to accepting the ideas of others.
I’ve learned a lot about God and this also helps me
because it gives me the incentive of knowing that I’m doing these things for a reason.
And I realized that forgiving is the best thing we can do.
Forgiving brings joy to our life.
I truly didn’t know what forgiveness is.
Now I am starting to learn to forgive, and I had a lot of problems.
If you don’t forgive others,
you’ll never be able to forgive yourself for the things you did.
A person needs to learn to forgive himself for what he has done in life,
and to forgive others and his family,
who often, in trying to do good, end up hurting us.
Let us never hold on to rancor or the desire for vengeance!
It’s useless to do so:
it’s a ”worm” that eats into our soul
and takes away our happiness.
Let us forgive!
The teachings of Saint Josemaria, yes,
especially everything referring to forgiveness.
This year I resolved, for the Year of Mercy,
to pray for these people.
We can’t hold on to rancor all our life.
We should have
the courage to forgive.
And our whole family found the strength
to say: “I forgive.”
I don’t hate any more.
I forgave, I already forgave them.
Forgiving is something sublime.
Forgiving is proper to fathers,
and God who is our Father
is always ready to forgive us.