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The ESL Times / Spring, 2003
Important People in My Life
By: Fr. Alessandro Capoferri, SCJ
(Italy/Mozambique)
It’s usually said that it’s possible to live without brothers, but that it isn’t possible to live without friends. In my life, I have experienced that our friends are very important.
I would like to speak about a friend that lives in Mozambique. He’s a priest who works in a big mission. He’s a good man and has a rich personality. I studied with him for many years and we are good friends. I lived with him during my first experience in the mission, and he helped me, especially in the first days, when my beginning in the mission life was difficult.
Sister P. is another friend. She is studying in Rome these days. She is an intelligent and qualified sister who has worked for many years in Mozambique. I worked with her some years doing formation work in the diocese of Quelimane. From her, I learned to love the Christian community in Mozambique and to especially love the people of Mozambique during the time of the civil war. And once, during our visits to communities, the guerrillas captured us for a short while!
When I lived in Mozambique, I worked with the young people at the Sacred Family’s Parish in Quelimane. I loved the young people of Mozambique, because they are happy, nice, and generous. But I also found them to be emotionally weak, fragile, and exposed to many dangers and tensions. Among them, I remember two leaders of the formation groups. One was P.; the other one C.. Both helped a lot me in my work with the young people and in understanding the problems in the school, in the society and in the families. We have remained friends even though I am no longer in Mozambique.
These are only a few of my friends. Would you like to know more? Look
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