What have I not done today, where have I not called today? I called the ambulance, the police. I called various institutions, hospitals about one homeless person, an addict, lying on the ground, without feet. Everywhere I heard one thing – there is no such process, there is no such procedure, there is no such…
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Procession of All Saints. People enter the sacristy to receive the relics which they will carry in procession while singing the Litany of All Saints. I met a person at this procession who was homeless a year ago. Now he is working and he also has to take part in this procession, so we met…
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I make an appointment with an alcohol abusing homeless man for Sunday Mass. We stand in the doorway, climb the stairs, we are in the vestibule of the church the man looks at the wall takes a step and cries. – What is happening? – I ask – why are you crying? – I am…
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I made an appointment with one young lad that we would go to a new place this week so that he could change his life with God and with people, start again. As we are standing there, talking, setting the date, praying, the boy says – I already have a rosary on my arm, but…
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It’s 2 October, the Marian month, the month of the Rosary. I am sitting together with the homeless in a group, in a kind of wooden house. There is a round table. We all sit together and begin to pray the rosary. One rosary, after saying a Hail Mary, each person passes the rosary to…
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A homeless man stands in front of a shop. He asks people for sausages, for bread. For anything. We meet – What can I buy you? – Maybe some sausage ? Maybe something? Okay, no problem! I’m going back to the shop. I have sausage and bread. – Listen, maybe you would like to change…
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It’s early morning we stand by the ER waiting to get in, will they admit him for detox and therapy? Or will they not One man in a wheelchair poisoning himself with denatured alcohol. Already the last phase of alcoholism, when you have nothing left, you have left everything, everyone has left you, when you have…
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God is able to do surprising and extraordinary things. I wanted to give a testimony of a prayer that for me was so surprising that it was actually impossible. After Sunday Mass, I took what I had been given – donuts, good coffee – and went to the dump where people live. I gave these…
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I take my shoes out of my bag. I got them for a homeless man from an altar boy, an adult altar boy, who giving them says – You know many years I walked to church in these, I served mass! So when I give these shoes to the homeless man, this great size, I…
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I am sitting in a room over a glass of tea, a piece of cake and talking to a man. The kind of meetings where everyone shares something. „What are you doing?” I tell him. Then he says: You know, I wouldn’t help a person lying in a ditch by the side of the road.…
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