Gospel facts that fill the heart

29 October 2021
In his Epiphany homily, on January 6, 2017, speaking of the Magi, Pope Francis said: Nostalgic believers, “believers who feel this longing are led by faith to seek God, as the Magi did, in the most distant corners of history, for they know that there the Lord awaits them. They go to the peripheries, to the frontiers, to places not yet evangelized, to encounter their Lord. Nor do they do this out of a sense of superiority, but rather as beggars who cannot ignore the eyes of those for whom the Good News is still uncharted territory”. These are words documented in the story of this article, with which Dale Recinella begins his collaboration with the Vatican media. Dale, a former Wall Street finance lawyer, left his profession thirty years ago to devote his life to the least and the forgotten. With his wife Susan, he serves, as “lay ...

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