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“Islam transformed the life of Charles de Foucauld,” Brother Ventura said. His own, no doubt, equally has been deeply affected by his long sojourn in the prayerful isolated Christian enclave in the middle of the Algerian desert, a sort of cathedral shaped by Nature.
It all started in the turbulent year 1968 when a group of college students took to reading the Gospel seriously and got involved with the poor of the suburbs of Rome. The Community of Sant’Egidio is now a world event with tens of thousands of members in many countries. While at the grassroot level, it is still involved with every kind of poverty and sickness, especially AIDS. At the top, it specializes in peacemaking between warring parties and in dialogue between different religions according to the spirit of Assisi. In heaven, Saint Francis must be proud of them.
“Blessed are you poor, the kingdom of God belongs to you.”
(Read Luke 6:20-49)
