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I finally respond to the gentle request for a testimony of these two and a half months I spent in the company of Coronavirus-19. As I start writing, the knot in my throat grows tighter and my eyes fog up: I am surprised by this reaction, but I accept it.
For about three weeks I have preparing myself to write; I could bring myself to do it only today, after a happy meeting on zoom with the young university students of the Oratory. We were led by Fr. Emanuele in a reading of our times in the company of the disciples of Emmaus.
The plague, pestilence; such terms not only imply a disease with deadly consequences, but a disease that is mysterious, unknown, and without human control.
Keith was a volunteer with the Cagliero Project, who spent six months volunteering at the Don Bosco Comoro Technical Community Centre in Timor Leste.
Don Bosco is so well-known to us for so many incredible things, it’s no surprise that certain parts of his story fade into the background.
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