a human adventure in Brazil

This picture shows a woman holding her son amid the violence of this world: and the angels propose to him instruments of torture that will be for our liberation. The broken sandal never fails to move me with tenderness for Him who embraces our humanity in its totality, neglecting nothing.

This attitude is also demonstrated in this letter, published a year ago in Traces:

Forty Years in Brazil
Dearest friends: With a heart filled to the brim with joy, and moved for the grandiose party some friends, with love and sacrifice, threw on February 25th for my forty years in Brazil, I want to communicate to each one of you what those years have been for me. To look at this piece of history means, above all, recognizing the spectacle of mercy that my eyes have seen, a mercy that took flesh within the company of friends who embraced me as I am and supported me. On September 8, 1967, Fr. Giussani told me in a letter: “Don’t ever fear anything, outside or inside you, as the Angel said to our Lady. And trust our Lady, like a child would, and in your heart give praise to God, who chose you as you are, and who will make you become what He wants you to be. Your most affectionate Don Gius.” And again on December 7, 1968: “God put you in the world and sent you to Brazil to help men, to make them know Jesus Christ, and to help them live a Christian life, which is true human life. Love Jesus Christ, Rosetta, with all of your self, and use charity toward all, up to the point of breaking your heart. Your mother, who is so good, certainly wants you this way. I embrace you and I encourage you. Yours, Don Gius.” Time made visible the certainty of the limitless grace and faithfulness of God, even within my limits and betrayals. A heartfelt “thank you” for your precious friendship. ~Rosetta, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

And from almost ten years ago, some letters that Msgr. Giussani wrote to his friends in Brazil:

«Be in love with the Lord who has chosen you to begin something that could be very fruitful for his Kingdom: and don't worry about anything except being there, obedient and willing.

Gratiam agimus propter magnam gloriam tuam (We give you thanks for your great glory).

And you, too, are a hem of that glory, not what you manage to do, but you yourselves, your offering.»

And now, Sharon writes that "An Other is filling history." Who is this Man who dominates history?