Thursday 3rd September 2009. After a noisy and glad dream, the Carthusian writes on the paper of a yogurt, at dawn: Heaven is joy. Those who die in God or the Good, dying, jump and are tossed, bounce and dance.
Everywhere sociality and friendship triumph, fantasy and brightness, humor and the noises of life. Everywhere the faces shine and the relationships smile.
The young priest, the future prophet, thrilled and galvanized the children of the Sunday Mass. He adapted the liturgical books to their knowledge. Mainly while preaching he used the ways of Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse, that he read carefully during the week.
Usually, after the Mass, he was asked by a boy about the football matches of Monopoli. He guessed almost all of them, for a year, but once.
Another boy, after the Mass, broke into sacristy offering him a glorious and melting “moretto”, a very famous ice-cream at the time. Those Sunday children, once adult, opened his heart.
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