Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today we consider one of the conditions common to all families, namely, illness. Many times in the Gospels Jesus meets the sick and heals them. His desire to cure suffering is a central part of his

A year in the company of the Good Samaritan. Indeed, it is the icon of mercy – which refers to the famous passage from the gospel narrated by Luke – that forms the background to the celebrations that have been

  7 June 1694: the date of the death of the most worthy Fr. Carlo Solfi da Monreale, a historian of the Order and the author of a textbook on the Ministers of the Sick A few years after the

Giovanni Papini wrote that ‘to heal the sick, medicines are not enough, you need love, that is to say the high temperature of the soul. Fever against fever, spirit against flesh. That is what St. Camillus did’. Put together on

by Marco Iazzolino At two in the night your eyes are opened. A desperate voice accompanied the umpteenth tremor. ‘Aama, Aama’, mummy, mummy, in Nepalese. We know that voice – it belongs to Dipdarsan, a boy aged eleven who lives