Many were the Crosses

Many were the crosses that the missionary St. Daniel Comboni had to bear in order to remain faithful to his vocation and to mission. He personally assimilates a dynamic spirituality of the Cross. He becomes ever more convinced that God's works are never easy, humanly speaking, and that tribulations are a sure sign of a blessing on any missionary effort.

Behind the trials of missionary life, behind the limits, meanness and injustices of people, St. Comboni always managed to see the hand of Providence guiding towards higher unthinkable peaks, his soul and his work in Africa. It is through this kind of faith that he grew as an authentic saint. John Paul ll at his canonisation in 2003 proposed St. Comboni as a missionary example to follow and imitate.

For St. Comboni, mission meant love ~ it was a question of love: to leave one's home and country and language, to live a deep sense of exile, to look for and to restore God's image on the face of those who weep and suffer in the most forgotten lands. To link our own destiny with that of the "poorest and most abandoned" under the seal of the cross... Love without limits ~ it is worth giving ourselves, without limits!