An orionine voice in the desert

Today, in our Don Orione Center in Zarqa -. Jordan, we celebrated the International Refugee Day, we had lunch with our families of Iraqi refugees who live here in our center and others we give food and gas assistance, today Fr. Hani celebrated the Mass in the Syriac rite of Chaldean Catholic Church. Observing these families came to my mind so many families who could not escape their countries at war or who, unfortunately, died in the way. Thank God that these families have been saved and that we with the least we can do for them to survive until the day they can be received by a country. Here are the pictures of these beautiful children who have survived of terror and the war and who can continue their lives with joy and smiling even though they are far way from their origin country.  

Hello friends. Finally, after six years, I arrived in my mission land. Friday, June 9 I disembarked at Amman airport with a beautiful welcome from the confreres and young people of the Oratory of Don Orione in Zarqa - Jordan. Saturday was a day of rest and also a day of celebration with the youth of the Oratory, and Sunday I did the service in the Mass as a deacon, where I made my first proclamation of the Gospel in Arabic in our parish Queen of Peace. From today we will travel together in the work of Don Orione in the middle of the desert. I ask you all for a special prayer for my ministry here in Jordan. Hail Mary and onward

Today we started the repairs of the chapel in the home community, I believe that after 20 years this will be the first changes, we will not do many things because we do not have much appeal for a big reform, but what little we do will be best for the Divine Providence, accompany us this work, and the festival of Easter will make everything new and beautiful in our chapel.

Here in Zarqa had two beautiful celebrations on Ash Wednesday, the first was in the morning for our Christian students of our school, today the number of Christians in our school is much bigger than in my first year here, which is why the celebration was pretty much already seen here at our school, the evening was the Mass celebrated by Fr Anthony and Fr Carlo, with the presence of the Christian community of our region. Celebration made ​​by the school Mass of Ash Wednesday in the Sanctuary for the community

In the month of February we had the presence of two volunteers from Italy, Nino Hugo, besides the great job they did in our garden organized by Hugo and the area of construction with Nino, our community has received a gift far greater, the joy of being always together with them talking and learning more about the experience of each, representing the entire community of Zarqa I want to thank you for the wonderful work done by these two of you great volunteers. Nino Ugo

On January 31 commemorates the feast of Don Bosco, one of our patron saint, our community did something very simple but very significant, in the chapel of the community in celebrating the Mass with some of our young volunteer here in our center, youth which are always in our house, always making this community a community alive, joyful and full of energy. Viva Don Bosco A Missa foi presidida por Pe. antonio co-celebrante Pe Carlo esteve presente o jovens Jameel Saif e Essa