Dal bisogno al volto La spiritualità che accompagna la vita ferita

**FROM NEED TO A FACE**
*The spirituality that accompanies wounded life*

Sometimes, when we are beside a loved one who is suffering, we no longer know what to say. We would like to help, but the situation does not change. And it can also happen that we ourselves feel seen only through what we are no longer able to do.

When we make room for someone’s voice, we may discover a desire we had never imagined, a story we knew only in part. “Before there is a need, there is a face.” Recognizing this changes the way we help: it means asking before deciding, and listening even to what we do not know how to resolve.

“From Need to a Face” begins from this experience. At its center is a Gospel scene: Christ stops at Bartimaeus’s cry and asks, “What do you want me to do for you?” Before healing him, He gives him the opportunity to speak. That gesture also concerns our relationships—when we offer help and when we need to receive it.

The catechesis will explore the question of Christian healing, taking seriously both the desire for an illness to end and the difficulty of believing when the answer does not come in the form we had hoped for. In the encounter with Christ, the Healer, it will seek a hope that can become a concrete presence. How can we remain beside someone when we cannot change what they are going through?

**Thursday, October 8, 2026 – 7:15 p.m.**
**Parish of San Fedele**
Piazza San Fedele 4, Milan

**Free admission – open to everyone**

With **Domenico Cervelli**, diocesan coordinator of the Renewal in the Holy Spirit movement of the Archdiocese of Bari-Bitonto.