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Editorial > Editorial Archive  Buenos Aires, Sunday, August 20, 2006
Reality keeps questioning usAs days, months, and years go by, as we go on waiting for replies to so many new needs, as we go on listening to theories on what to do with so many suffering people in need, we still notice that actually no big changes can be seen, snd many people still move suffering in front of us, but we are not able to help them, or maybe that's what it looks to us. We walk by and go on seeing abandoned old people, whole families trying to survive, and maybe this reality doesn't hurt us anymore because we are getting used to this “urban scenery” of our cities like so many others we see day by day. Let us not think we can't do anything to help it since from the faith we profess there's no doubt we can lift a prayer asking for hearts of people to “soften” and for minds to light up, but we also can begin to do something specific for those around us who suffer, by offering our help or our support without wondering if it is little or much and if this is a thorough solution to problems or not, since while we wait for “thorough solutions” we probably can solve a specific problem of some specific person at a specific time.As days, months, and years go by, as we go on waiting for replies to so many new needs, as we go on listening to theories on what to do with so many suffering people in need, we still notice that actually no big changes can be seen, snd many people still move suffering in front of us, but we are not able to help them, or maybe that's what it looks to us. There's no doubt that everything around us “asks for an explanation” and makes us reflect on what we can do, what is in our reach in order to soothe some painful situation which suddenly faces us. And that's the way it should be, reality must pose questions, we just cannot go on walking as we watch begging children at our side, or as they themselves call it “working” for their living, without being able of being at school which at their age is their “natural place to be” while we walk by, and when I say we I mean: We walk by and go on seeing abandoned old people, whole families trying to survive, and maybe this reality doesn't hurt us anymore because we are getting used to this “urban scenery” of our cities like so many others we see day by day. We see how around us “legal” ways are sought for the truncation of life under whatever selfish positions or maybe assuming that one “horror” can be resolved or cleaned up by means of another “horror”, and we go on watching like spectators who seem to have no alternative other than be cheated by “false theories” who always involve “others” in the feeling it can never happen to us, thus allowing us to accept them even if they oppose our deepest convictions. Let us not think we can't do anything to help it since from the faith we profess there's no doubt we can lift a prayer asking for hearts of people to “soften” and for minds to light up, but we also can begin to do something specific for those around us who suffer, by offering our help or our support without wondering if it is little or much and if this is a thorough solution to problems or not, since while we wait for “thorough solutions” we probably can solve a specific problem of some specific person at a specific time.
Father Oscar Pezzarini together with Fr. Leonardo Abregú makes us reflect on Saturdays from 8 to 12 AM (GMT-03:00)with "VENTANA A LA VIDA", the Don Orione radio program he conducts on FM PROVIDENCIA, 90.3 MHz together with some residents of the Claypole Cottolengo (Raúl Romero, María Laura Andrada, Alberto Zoroch, Américo Torres), with the production of Roberto Beluzzo and Ignacio Cavalli as technical operator. You can also listen to FM PROVIDENCIA by clicking here.
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