“I colori della misericordia”
Entitled The Colors of Mercy and telling twelve true stories, Chiara Bertoglio’s book, published in 2016 with Effatà
Pages in which messages of hope, beauty and courage are sown, in which ordinary men and women testify to a different way of living. Merciful, indeed.
Testimonies of parents who move forward despite difficulties, and then paths of faith, hymns of gratitude, simple truths that speak of an everyday life lived in self-giving. People different from each other, but all special … united by having known God’s mercy.
As the author writes, these are “testimonies of hope, which would like to announce to those who read them that even in the deepest darkness joy can blossom, and that no one can say he or she has been forgotten, abandoned, lost.”
And on the subject of the risk of idealizing witnesses such as these, he adds that they are “not pedestal ‘saints’ stories either, although many of the people I speak of are real examples of holiness. But the real saints, the real ones in the flesh, are people with their limitations, people next door, people forgiven and kissed by mercy; their presence announces to us that happy life is possible, for everyone, in all situations, even and especially in the patient humility of the hidden everyday.”
The author, Chiara Bertoglio, was born in Turin in 1983; she is a piano concert pianist and musicologist. She has written other books to spread hope and also founded the volunteer group “Bringing Music.”
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- Effatà publishing