For eight years now, since the Faith and Light movement began to grow in Italy, we've been asked the same questions over and over: Who are you? What do you do? Where? When? Why?
The questions have only multiplied in recent years. A mother from the north calls. A friend who's heard about us writes. A priest we've met in passing asks...
Reading these pages, we hope you'll understand why these questions are so hard to answer by phone or letter.
So we've gathered articles, testimonies, and reflections—some from the French magazine «Ombres et lumière», others from our newsletter «Insieme», which has kept our Italian communities connected until now.
We know words can never capture what it means to live Faith and Light. So we've let friends, parents, and priests speak—people who have walked this path with us from the beginning.
Our disabled friends struggle even more to put into words what Faith and Light means to them. They speak through gesture, through attitude, through a look, through silence...
For that reason, we've let them speak to you through images instead.
Little Daniele—three years old, severely disabled—invites us all from the cover to see through and beyond what appears on the surface.
Nicole Schulthes, Mariangela Bertolini, 1981