A great truth about Fr Bossi remains hidden; he is a missionary who witnesses and announces Christ.
aul VI said: "Without Christ, true humanism does not exist".
In today’s society we all complain that there is no longer any faith, any religion or cordiality, that there is too much selfishness, immorality, that the family is being destroyed, the young, they say are, are weak and without ideals.
But what is the use in complaining? This is the society that we adults and elderly have created. How possible is it for a young person to grow with optimism and hope, to have great ideals, is each and every day he receives only negative information or erroneous models from films, comics, television, schools and common discourse?
This is why the example of the missionaries is important for us too: our society needs witnesses of Christ to improve our human condition. In great part Italian society has abandoned God and we now find ourselves with families increasingly less capable of educating the young.
Missionaries such as Fr. Giancarlo Bossi, risk their lives for Christ. Fr.Igino Mattarucco, a missionary in Burma for over forty years wrote: "Missionaries have long carried out works of social utility to aid the starving and the poor, they have shared their lives with the poor, defended the oppressed, the minorities and the persecuted. But I seen with my own eyes that the essential fundamental contribution that the Church and the missionaries have given to the growth of a people and their release from all oppression is not technical or economic aid, but faith in Christ. Because
it is Jesus Christ who saves, who transforms the depths of the person, the family, the village; it is Jesus Christ who “changes the heart” towards humanity, and away from selfish egoism”.
Without Christ, true humanism does not exist
Pope Paul VI
Mao Tze Tung’s "Red Book" states: "The true revolution is to change the hearts of men”; Mao believed that he had changed the heart of the Chinese through the police and the forced
labor camps, rendering egoists, altruists. But his ambitions failed, after having caused tens of millions of victims. On Mao’s death September 9th 1976, the Chinese once again became human beings with “original sin”, that is selfishness, so much so that today Chinese capitalism is the most voracious in the world! Pime missionaries who live and work in China declare.
Missionary vocations diminish. Twenty years ago there were 15,000 Italian missionaries. Now it seems that, according to the "Missio" foundation, that is the Pontifical Missionary Works, there are only 13,000. They have certainly diminished and the male and female missionary institutes survive only thanks to the vocations from the young churches they themselves founded: if it were only for the Italian missionary priests and nuns the institutes would have to close down.
And yet the requests from the young churches are on the rise. Each missionary Institute receives hundreds from every corner of the world. PIME has opened a new mission in the Algerian desert among the Muslim peoples: not to convert then to Christ, but simply to be witnesses of love for man, of dialogue and of help to the poor and abandoned, to live spent for others according to the Gospel.
I would like to say to the young: you have all your life ahead of you and you are thinking about what you will do when you become your adults. Pray that the Lord may enlighten you and call you to follow him, even through the witness of Fr. Giancarlo Bossi, do not say no to Him: you will realize a full and happy life.
Do not think that if Christ calls you He is asking for a sacrifice. No, He is giving you a great gift, one which you will only be able to understand step by step, if with the help of God you remain faithful to his call. And you will understand that giving oneself totally to God and to the mission of the Church and the best way to spend ones life for the world’s needy.
(From AsiaNews)