It is the intimate diary of a priest. The account of his journey, his choices, the encounters and vocation that shaped him into the man of God he is today. Beginning with his meeting at age fifteen with Lucrezia, a girl with severe disability—an encounter that Ombre e Luci readers heard about first in our in-depth interview with him some months ago—in Handle with Care (EDB 2021), don Marco Bove retraces the path that led him not only to priesthood, but to a priesthood woven through with disability. This is why his words and actions carry such weight. This is why they matter.
— See also: our interview with Marco Bove
What makes don Marco's voice singular is that he erases every line between us and them (The Fragility of Our Lives is the book's subtitle), and he speaks from knowledge—not theory—about fragility, disability, and the limits we all carry, visible or hidden. There is vision here, and a gaze that is at once concrete and reflective, practical and spiritual. Bove's voice—now president of the Sacra Famiglia Foundation and international spiritual assistant for Fede Luce—demands to be heard. Not just by those who know him, but by a Church that has so much yet to learn. Just as society does.