Carissimi,
Vorrei approfittare di un tranquillo momento serale, con le consegne fatte per far a tutti voi un piccolo saluto ed un augurio, come gia' molti di voi hanno fatto.
Ci stiamo lasciando alle spalle un anno non semplice, con molti cambiamenti e difficolta' ma anche pieno di senso e di prospettive nuove. Vorrei ringraziare tutti voi per la collaborazione e la serieta' con cui avete fatto il vostro lavoro in quest'anno. Credo che lo spirito che ci anima e' quello che fa la differenza nel nostro lavoro. A differenza delle imprese, nei momenti di difficolta' non possiamo far affidamento sugli utili accantonati negli anni di abbondanza. Le nostre riserve sono per persone nel momento del bisogno sanno dare quel di piu' che fa la differenza.
Il piacere di lavorare serenamente insieme e' un elemento importante del nostro quotidiano e fa la diffierenza.
Dopo domani e' Natale. Bethlemme e' lontana, lontana geograficamente, nel tempo ed a volte anche nel senso. E' difficile dare un senso al pupazzetto nel presepe o sotto l'albero. Tutto sommato non e' brutto da vedersi e non ci ispira sensazioni particolari.
Mi viene pero' da Bethlem think about the many who are around the world and that there will be after tomorrow, while we rightly too, pour the champagne at the end of a good meal.
the image 'in the eyes and I have recently' that the piles of boxes, some with people inside, waiting for the other piles empty night, under the pensilline Ostienze station in Rome, Sunday, December 19, with people passing the sides to go to catch the train.
I also think of many "huts" of Ethiopia, I know best, where sometimes we were invited in for coffee 'to thank for a job we have done. With the cows that snort behind her back. In those same huts where we spend only a "pause coffee, "you live, it is born and dies, it grows and ages. With the chickens scratch around on the floor, the cows chew on one side and a few mouse sometimes walk on the beams above. In these huts, you are giving birth spread out on a cowhide, put on a raised ground floor that serves as a bed. This is not no collect cells from the umbilical cord and there's no 'the question of how many embryos can or can not be frozen. Abraham and Sara probably lived in a place like this. Outside the hut there are always trees, except the oaks, to sit in the shade to talk with the guests, while the women prepare food inside. Of course, in these huts do not kill the fatted calf to celebrate and entertain guests because there are only a few dried-up cows.
When I think about this more I think of Bethlehem 'that the crib with the lights too much air is Christmas.
I think that fits our own time, and these days, the words of the prophet 'vanity' of the Vanities, 'and all' vanity '. "
But if 'these little signs and these moments help us to go with the mind, and to feel a bit' more 'close to many of the Bethlem and World History, then, only then, will not be' pure vanity '.
year unfolds before us contains many hopes along with the many difficulties'.
It will open new paths, roads and opportunities' new, to go and explore with confidence. Some companion change the way travel and maybe some new traveling companion will join 'on us to do a piece together. Of all this we are grateful to God 'cause' and all 'good "and" nothing of what is' sown andra 'lost'.
We take in these moments to feel a little 'more' close to those close to us who are suffering. I think the Pope 'to clarify that plaice' Christmas in hospital, and the pope 'of Daniel for some time now that Christmas celebrates the living with his illness'. As there is no reason for the suffering of African children, so 'we do not understand even the meaning of suffering around and near us. HOWEVER so 'as a gesture of affection can' make a difference for a loved one who suffers, like a small step towards justice makes a difference to a world a little 'better.
Merry Christmas and a successful 2011 but also of peace and serenity '
Peace and Good
Attilio Ascani, Director of CVM
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