“The gaze of Jesus. Pages of Mercy” by Don Francesco Cristofaro: the importance of forgiveness

Publishing house: Tau Publishing
Necklace: Word and prayer
Genre: Essay / Spirituality
Pages: 172
Price: € 16.00

“The gaze of Jesus. Pages of Mercy” by Don Francesco Cristofaro is the most personal work of the author because he decided to tell his life, since his childhood, and to share with the reader his sufferings due to his disability and its difficult path of growth and awareness. Don Cristofaro is a parish priest in a small town in the province of Catanzaro – “Today I am a happy and serene priest, certainly with successes and failures, with virtues and defects but full of vitality and energy who struggles and is committed to proclaiming the gospel, parish priest of a parish in the suburbs, Santa Maria Assunta in Simeri, with just under two hundred and fifty souls, few children and many elderly ”. He is also a radio and television host: he hosts the column “In the light of faith” on Radio Mater and the program “Facts for Heaven” on Padre Pio TV, he collaborates with Tv2000 for “L’Ora Solare”, he was a columnist in the broadcast “Italian Stories” on Rai 1 and contributes with themed services to the “Forum” program on channel 5. It also has a large following on social media and in particular on YouTube, where it shares intense moments of prayer with its followers and where it dispenses advice spiritual. Also through his works Don Cristofaro tries to connect with people to offer them comfort and hope; in this last book in particular he talks about the importance of forgiveness and mercy, which he tries to put into practice every day. To deal with these delicate topics, he chose stories from the Gospel that had as protagonists men and women labeled as sinners by society: among them there is, for example, Zacchaeus, a greedy publican who in meeting with the gaze of And in hosting him in his house, he understood the mistakes he had made and was able to be born again; The story of the adulteress is also intense, whom the Lord saves from stoning thanks to the famous phrase “Let him be the first to throw a stone at her”. These are all precious teachings that can be useful to those who believe but also to those who are simply looking for a text to reflect on the direction given to their existence. Regardless of belonging to a religion or not, in fact, the decision to be better people should be a priority in this arid and cruel world, where feelings such as forgiveness and brotherhood are inevitably disappearing, leaving an unbridgeable void in the heart of all.

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“The gaze of Jesus. Pages of Mercy” by Don Francesco Cristofaro: the importance of forgiveness – Gazzettino del Golfo