“Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.”
Day after day Mother Teresa personally encountered an unyielding number of poor, sick and unwanted. Yet, she relentlessly extended bodily and figurative touch through her deep well of compassionate love, returning to God when needing to replenish her cache of goodness. At this time of global illness and isolation, let us heed her call to see and touch the lonely, suffering and unwanted all around us, by whatever means we are able.
Pane di Pasqua (Italian Grandmother’s Easter Bread Tradition) Symbol of Easter’s Promises in our Italian Family. Daffodils survive and push through the blanket of last night’s snow!
I am thrilled to have met Italian Director Katia Bernardi and Co-producer Davide Valentini, who brought this message alive in their film “Funne.”
Italian Funne film Katia Bernardi e Co-ProducerDavide Valentini
Their heart-warming and humorous story follows a group of older women from a remote, picturesque mountain village, in pursuit of their dream to travel to the sea.
Bravo Katia and Davide!
Grazie organizer of the Italian Film Fest Carmen De Lorenzo!
I was blessed by Fruzi and Greti who greeted us when we arrived in Hungary this September, spoiled us with a home-cooked traditional meal of soup and stuffed Hungarian peppers, and who kept my mother Julia and grandparents Zoltan and Anna’s memories alive for me and passed to Eric. I experienced profound gratitude that I could once more gaze at the Danube River that flows through Budapest, Hungary with Fruzsi and Greti.
Bridge over the Danube River in Budapest with Fruzsi and Greta
…and grateful for an Italian Grandmother’s cannoli recipe, passed on to her great-grandchildren by Aunt Laura. Fresh ricotta from Nino’s Italian store whisked by Michael, secret ingredient orange zest by Madison, shells stuffed by Ryan, and ends sealed in chocolate by Makenzie.
Lisa Gigliotti is an attorney who has lived for more than twenty-five years with severe rheumatoid arthritis and serious myasthenia gravis. Through those years’ thirteen major surgeries and use of a wheelchair Lisa has maintained a fulfilling and positive life.