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Mariangela Bertolini

Mariangela Bertolini

Born in Treviso in 1933, teacher and mother of three children, including Maria Francesca, Chicca, who has a severe disability. She was among the promoters of Faith and Light in Italy. She founded and directed Ombre e Luci from 1983 to 2014. Full biography
164 articles

Articles

Have You Ever Tried...

Mariangela Bertolini • January 18, 2023

Philippine

Mariangela Bertolini • December 7, 2021

Bells in Celebration

Mariangela Bertolini • April 1, 2020

Why I Learned to Trust

Mariangela Bertolini • December 15, 2014

The Birth of Ombre e Luci

Mariangela Bertolini • December 15, 2014

Smiling Faces Are Welcome — A Review

Mariangela Bertolini • June 29, 2014

Get to Work!

Mariangela Bertolini • March 29, 2014

Those Who Stay Must Understand — A Review

Mariangela Bertolini • March 29, 2014

Year After Year, Christmas Still Moves Us

Mariangela Bertolini • December 15, 2013

Wonder: A Review

Mariangela Bertolini • December 14, 2013

Starting Over

Mariangela Bertolini • September 13, 2013

What to Do with Our Wounds — A Review

Mariangela Bertolini • September 13, 2013

Never Stop Believing — A Review

Mariangela Bertolini • September 13, 2013

Enough Now!

Mariangela Bertolini • June 10, 2013

How He Stepped Down from the Throne

Mariangela Bertolini • March 10, 2013

Never Alone Again

Mariangela Bertolini • December 10, 2012

Beauty and Disability

Mariangela Bertolini • September 16, 2012

Grandparents: An Extra Measure of Tenderness

Mariangela Bertolini • March 16, 2012

Dear Mothers

Mariangela Bertolini • March 16, 2012

Signs: A Review

Mariangela Bertolini • March 16, 2012

Young Heroes

Mariangela Bertolini • December 4, 2011

I Hardly Knew Them

Mariangela Bertolini • September 4, 2011

Why Not Me?

Mariangela Bertolini • June 4, 2011

Gaia, Puccio, Emanuela—and So Many Others

Mariangela Bertolini • March 4, 2011

A Special Wish

Mariangela Bertolini • December 3, 2010

"We Had No Idea"

Mariangela Bertolini • September 30, 2010

Learning to Tie Your Shoes: A Review

Mariangela Bertolini • September 30, 2010

And the Moon Looked Down on Me—A Review

Mariangela Bertolini • September 30, 2010

Her First Cry Was Joy

Mariangela Bertolini • June 17, 2010

Being a Mother...

Mariangela Bertolini • March 16, 2010

Whose Hands Will Dry My Tears? — A Review

Mariangela Bertolini • March 16, 2010

At the Cradle of Jesus

Mariangela Bertolini • December 10, 2009

An Open Letter to a Teacher

Mariangela Bertolini • September 10, 2009

The Courage to Dare

Mariangela Bertolini • June 10, 2009

A Brother Helped by a Brother Is Like a Fortified City

Mariangela Bertolini • March 8, 2009

Watch With Me: Hospice as an Inspiration for Care of Life — Review

Mariangela Bertolini • December 7, 2008

You Cannot Do It Alone

Mariangela Bertolini • September 3, 2008

My Son, an Angel Who Chose to Live — Review

Mariangela Bertolini • September 3, 2008

The Officers' Ward

Mariangela Bertolini • September 3, 2008

From Birth

Mariangela Bertolini • June 27, 2008

Reaching Out to Parents of Children with Disabilities

Mariangela Bertolini • December 12, 2007

Journey of Unchanged Affection: Celebrating 24 Years of Faith and Light

Mariangela Bertolini • December 10, 2007

Read Without Rushing

Mariangela Bertolini • September 9, 2007

Mothers of Courage and Beyond

Mariangela Bertolini • June 3, 2007

1500 Grams of Ash: Cremation and Christian Faith — A Review

Mariangela Bertolini • June 3, 2007

Bells of Celebration

Mariangela Bertolini • March 2, 2007

Dear Nicole

Mariangela Bertolini • December 28, 2006

King 33 and His 33 Golden Buttons — A Review

Mariangela Bertolini • December 28, 2006

Don Carlo Gnocchi: A Life of Daring

Mariangela Bertolini • December 28, 2006

Don Zeno: The Obedient Rebel

Mariangela Bertolini • December 28, 2006

Peace Bearers: Learning from Those with Down Syndrome

Mariangela Bertolini • September 27, 2006

And They Call Them Disabled — A Review

Mariangela Bertolini • September 27, 2006

When Everything Changes

Mariangela Bertolini • July 21, 2006

The Power of Tenderness: When the Spell Broke

Mariangela Bertolini • March 30, 2006

Pizza, Supplì, and a Drink for Seven Euros

Mariangela Bertolini • March 30, 2006

We are dads of disabled children: a different way of love

Mariangela Bertolini • December 23, 2005

We Are Fathers of Disabled Children: A Different Way of Loving

Mariangela Bertolini • December 23, 2005

Christian Initiation and People with Disabilities: A Review of New Guidance

Mariangela Bertolini • December 23, 2005

In the Name of the Father

Mariangela Bertolini • September 19, 2005

The World of Unnamed Things — A Review

Mariangela Bertolini • June 17, 2005

Just Another Day

Mariangela Bertolini • December 15, 2004

Massimo's Christmas

Mariangela Bertolini • December 14, 2004

God Has a Dream, Too — A Hope for Our Time — Book Review

Mariangela Bertolini • December 14, 2004

The Uscobufpt Injection

Mariangela Bertolini • September 13, 2004

The Italy We Don't See

Mariangela Bertolini • June 11, 2004

Living Together, Not Just Side by Side

Mariangela Bertolini • March 10, 2004

Trembling Wait

Mariangela Bertolini • December 22, 2003

Our Daily Autism: Stories of Parents and Children - Review

Mariangela Bertolini • December 22, 2003

I Decided Not to Love My Brother

Mariangela Bertolini • September 4, 2003

When Silence Speaks

Mariangela Bertolini • June 23, 2003

What Is Faith and Light?

Mariangela Bertolini • March 13, 2003

"A Son Has Been Given to Us"

Mariangela Bertolini • December 8, 2002

Living in Hope

Mariangela Bertolini • September 10, 2002

Vacation: A Time to Rest, Restore, and Come Alive Again

Mariangela Bertolini • June 15, 2002

Moving Forward

Mariangela Bertolini • March 10, 2002

And a Star Lights Up: from Fear to Hope, Navigating a Changed World Since September 11

Mariangela Bertolini • December 25, 2001

Do We Have a Future?

Mariangela Bertolini • September 27, 2001

The Children Were There

Mariangela Bertolini • June 20, 2001

Small Justice

Mariangela Bertolini • March 9, 2001

A Christmas Apart

Mariangela Bertolini • October 26, 2000

Drawing Near to Truth

Mariangela Bertolini • September 28, 2000

When Nature Brings Us Back to Life

Mariangela Bertolini • June 20, 2000

Rosamaria

Mariangela Bertolini • March 28, 2000

If Someone Knocks

Mariangela Bertolini • December 18, 1999

Something New Is Happening

Mariangela Bertolini • September 17, 1999

Saint Joseph's Little Loaves

Mariangela Bertolini • June 12, 1999

Fausta

Mariangela Bertolini • December 10, 1998

Why Enhanced School and Social-Educational Center for Young Children Matter

Mariangela Bertolini • December 10, 1998

The Art of Wonder

Mariangela Bertolini • September 30, 1998

Wait for Me, I'm Coming!

Mariangela Bertolini • June 17, 1998

The Invisible Disability

Mariangela Bertolini • March 4, 1998

What Grandparents Give: An Extra Tenderness

Mariangela Bertolini • December 15, 1997

Their Lives on Screen

Mariangela Bertolini • September 19, 1997

How to Take a Real Vacation

Mariangela Bertolini • June 12, 1997

When They Leave Before Us

Mariangela Bertolini • March 26, 1997

Dear Sisters and Brothers

Mariangela Bertolini • December 15, 1996

So Many Are Waiting

Mariangela Bertolini • September 27, 1996

An Evening at the Pizzeria

Mariangela Bertolini • June 14, 1996

To Parents and Friends

Mariangela Bertolini • March 4, 1996

Housing for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities

Mariangela Bertolini • March 4, 1996

The Most Like Him

Mariangela Bertolini • December 30, 1995

Five Loaves and Two Fish

Mariangela Bertolini • September 12, 1995

A Word of Thanks

Mariangela Bertolini • June 2, 1995

A Difficult and Delicate Question

Mariangela Bertolini • March 16, 1995

Dinner with the Ozzimos

Mariangela Bertolini • December 19, 1994

August in the City

Mariangela Bertolini • September 3, 1994

Why Have You Abandoned Us?

Mariangela Bertolini • March 16, 1994

When Evening Falls

Mariangela Bertolini • September 9, 1993

Hidden Gifts: Discovering What People with Disabilities Can Do

Mariangela Bertolini • June 21, 1993

Ten Years of Ombre e Luci: More Than a Magazine, a Family

Mariangela Bertolini • March 18, 1993

After We're Gone

Mariangela Bertolini • December 28, 1991

The Time to Understand

Mariangela Bertolini • September 22, 1991

Working Alongside Others

Mariangela Bertolini • June 21, 1991

With Your Help

Mariangela Bertolini • March 16, 1991

A Dance Lesson, Together

Mariangela Bertolini • December 27, 1990

Faith and Light: A Journey of Hope Beyond Disabilities

Mariangela Bertolini • September 26, 1990

What Is Faith and Light?

Mariangela Bertolini • September 26, 1990

Growing Together on the Journey

Mariangela Bertolini • September 26, 1990

Don't Burden Them Too Much

Mariangela Bertolini • March 28, 1990

Merry Christmas to You Too

Mariangela Bertolini • December 26, 1989

Where to Begin?

Mariangela Bertolini • June 30, 1989

"Even Without Hearing, Even Without a Voice..."

Mariangela Bertolini • June 22, 1989

And They Pay for It!

Mariangela Bertolini • March 30, 1989

More Than Something to Read

Mariangela Bertolini • December 29, 1988

The Right to Celebrate

Mariangela Bertolini • June 30, 1988

It Takes So Little to Keep Us from Feeling Alone

Mariangela Bertolini • December 31, 1987

A Letter to You

Mariangela Bertolini • September 30, 1987

I Don't Know How to Say It

Mariangela Bertolini • June 30, 1987

"What Is a Handicap?" "I Don't Know"

Mariangela Bertolini • March 21, 1987

Keep the Door Open

Mariangela Bertolini • December 31, 1986

If They Don't Act

Mariangela Bertolini • September 30, 1986

Why This Special Issue

Mariangela Bertolini • June 30, 1986

Blind, Deaf, Unable to Walk or Speak

Mariangela Bertolini • March 29, 1986

Teaching Bowel and Bladder Control: A Guide for Parents and Educators

Mariangela Bertolini • March 10, 1986

Christmas in Ljubljana

Mariangela Bertolini • December 30, 1985

Group Homes: Dream or Reality?

Mariangela Bertolini • September 30, 1985

Why Ombre e Luci Matters

Mariangela Bertolini • June 30, 1985

I Love Life, In Spite of Everything

Mariangela Bertolini • June 27, 1985

Voices of Sisters and Brothers

Mariangela Bertolini • March 30, 1985

School Integration: A Hard Truth to Tell

Mariangela Bertolini • September 30, 1984

Why the Doors Remain Closed

Mariangela Bertolini • March 31, 1984

My Child with Down Syndrome

Mariangela Bertolini • December 31, 1983

Nobody Expected Patrick to Climb

Mariangela Bertolini • September 30, 1983

Pilgrimage to Faith and Light

Mariangela Bertolini • December 20, 1981

Faith and Light's First Summer Camp

Mariangela Bertolini • December 20, 1981

Why This Issue Is About Animation

Mariangela Bertolini • June 16, 1981

Wherever You Lead Us, Every Day

Mariangela Bertolini • March 16, 1981

"Your Will Be Done"

Mariangela Bertolini • December 16, 1980

One... Two... Three... Freeze!

Mariangela Bertolini • September 16, 1980

The Siblings

Mariangela Bertolini • June 16, 1980

Why We Call Ourselves Faith and Light

Mariangela Bertolini • December 16, 1979

Summer's Here

Mariangela Bertolini • September 16, 1979

Love Is Not Enough

Mariangela Bertolini • June 16, 1979

When Summer Comes

Mariangela Bertolini • September 20, 1978

Fede e Luce's 1978 Pilgrimage to Assisi: A Preparation

Mariangela Bertolini • June 20, 1978

Editorial: The Fears We Carry

Mariangela Bertolini • March 10, 1978

Friends or Brothers?

Mariangela Bertolini • December 8, 1977

Faith and Light: International and National Gatherings, 1977

Mariangela Bertolini • June 20, 1977

Editorial: On "Together"

Mariangela Bertolini • December 20, 1976

The Hardest Cases

Mariangela Bertolini • February 20, 1976

The Fear of Others

Mariangela Bertolini • June 28, 1974

Joseph Receives His First Communion

Mariangela Bertolini • January 7, 1974

Signs of Hope

Mariangela Bertolini • May 23, 2026

Mysterious Moments

Mariangela Bertolini • May 23, 2026