The Haitian Conference of Religious (CHR) expressed sorrow for the loss of Sister Luisa Dell'Orto, killed in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, probably during a robbery.
The missionary of the Little Sisters of the Gospel of Charles de Foucauld, 65 years old, originally from Lomagna (Lecco), had been working on the island for 20 years and took care of street children, welcomed in the Kay Chal facility, Casa Carlo, in a suburb of the capital.
The armed attack occurred yesterday morning in the Delmas 19 area; the nun, according to the Haitian news site “Rezo Nodwes” was accompanied by a driver, of whom there is no news. Sister Luisa, hit by four bullets, was taken to the Bernard Mevs hospital, where she died.
"I express my closeness to the family and fellow nuns of Sister Luicia dell'Orto, Little Sister of the Gospel of Charles de Foucauld, killed yesterday in Port-au-Price, Haiti: for 20 years she had dedicated herself to serving especially street children. I entrust her soul to God, and I pray for the Haitian people, especially for the youngest so that they may have a more serene future, without poverty and without violence. Sister Lucia made her life a gift for others until martyrdom".
Thus Pope Francesco at the end of the Angelus from St. Peter's Square.I am saddened to learn of the killing – in a very poor suburb of Haiti – of the nun from Lecco Luisa Dell'Orto. She was known by all as the Angel of street children. My sadness is the sadness of all the people of Lombardy who are close to the family of Sister Luisa with the certainty that even from Heaven she will be able to help the weakest“. The President of the Lombardy Region wrote this in a post on Facebook, Attilio Fontana.
"The death of Sister Luisa Dell'Orto, little sister of the Gospel, leaves us torn and disconcerted, it becomes a revelation of the good she did and the holy life she lived, it becomes pain and prayer. On behalf of the Ambrosian Church, I express my participation in the mourning of her family, in the grateful and painful memory of those who knew her, the certainty that her death, so similar to the death of Charles de Foucauld, united with the death of Jesus can be the seed of new life for the land of Haiti and for her entry into glory.“. This is the message of condolence from the Archbishop of Milan, Mario Delpini, for the killing of the nun in Haiti.
Tomorrow, at 21 pm, the high prelate will recite a rosary of suffrage for the nun in Lomagna, the small town in Brianza where she was originally from, in the Parish of Saints Peter and Paul.They do not go looking for dangers, but for signs of the Kingdom of God that is coming, among the poor, among those who are important only to God and ignored by all. They love life, they do not go looking for death where a few pennies count more than a holy woman; they go to sow words of the Gospel, so that even in desperate countries a path of hope may open up.
They do not go with programs and presumptions, with doctrines and claims, they go to offer friendship, in the name of the Lord, they go to say their impotence persevering in prayer.". "They do not choose where to go, they go where they are called by the least heard groan, they go where they are sent to become prayer, offering, friends, seed that dies to bear fruit. So go many women who travel the most dangerous roads in the world, who live in the most defenseless houses. They go and do not make newsa”, conclude the archbishop.
Article published on 26 June 2022 - 13:51
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