25. In the beginning man and woman
He was a great man, a great saint, Blessed John Paul I, the antecessor to also great Saint John Paul II. The first one told the next anecdote when he already was Pope. Precisely on September 6, 1979. He told that when he was the bishop of Venice he used to assist some houses for the elderly. Once he encountered an old lady in one of these houses. And he asked her how she was, how she felt, how the heating worked, how the meals were … Everything’s okay, she was saying, but eventually he asked if she was content and happy. Then she nearly burst to cry. What’s the matter? He asked the old lady. Well, she said, my daughter-in-law, my son … they just don’t come to visit me, and also I’d like to see my grandchildren! Well, you know, the family. It’s so great a thing, and how much we miss them when perhaps they’re far away, or you just don’t have a family. The family is one of the greatest things God has created, and we cannot pass without it. Even more, at the b...