BOLZANO. Like every year in the pre-Christmas period, Bishop Ivo Muser he visited the hospice and palliative care service in pavilion W of the Bolzano hospital and celebrated a Mass with the patients, doctors, nursing staff, spiritual assistants and volunteers.
In the face of pain and illness, the bishop asked, where can we draw hope and trust? His response: “In the faces of our patients, who with their suffering teach us to rediscover true values; in the faces of the doctors and staff, where we read the greatness of serving; in the eyes of the many volunteers, who know how to listen and support In this department you learn the meaning of Christmas.”
In the mass celebrated in the hospice and palliative care service of the Bolzano hospital with patients, families, healthcare personnel and volunteers, Bishop Ivo Muser recalled that the palliative care service “is not a place where one can be superficial, hasty, distracted It is a place that invites us to be attentive and sensitive to confront the decisive questions of our lives: what really matters?
The answers, continued the bishop, “we read on the faces of everyone present: on the faces of our patients, who with their suffering teach us to rediscover those precious realities that are truly valuable; on the faces of the doctors and staff of this department , where we read the greatness of serving, of being able to bend down towards the weakest and most needy; in the eyes of the volunteers who offer their time to listen, to support, to put themselves at the service of those who still have much to give and say with the testimony of his suffering. In this department we learn the meaning of Christmas. “Celebrating the Eucharist in this place that does not allow indifference, Ivo Muser specified, reminds us that “in Jesus God himself became a traveling companion, he shared everything with us. until death.”