Milan, 15 Apr (LaPresse) – ‘It would be nice if the big companies could set up bonuses for family reunion, at least for the Christmas and Easter holidays. It would be an act of humanity and fraternity, to which the world of economy and business is also called’. So writes Pope Francis from the pages of ‘Piazza San Pietro’, the monthly magazine directed by Father Enzo Fortunato, responding to the letter of a Sicilian mother of two children working outside the region, who considers the rising prices of flights and trains near the holidays to be unjust. ‘In this changing era, many young people, many children have found work far from their parents and cannot spend even the Christmas and Easter holidays with them. Sometimes distance also loosens relationships, creates misunderstandings and difficulties,’ writes the Pope. Hence the Pontiff's appeal to help ‘young people and families to be together, at least during the holidays, to share, helping to create the conditions so that we can meet, love and love each other’. For Bergoglio, in fact, ‘those holidays and those days spent with parents and grandparents can be moments of unique happiness. They become memories that give us serenity and joy for a lifetime, memories to which we can cling in the most complicated and difficult moments, memories that generate trust and hope because they show us that goodness and love are always possible and that there is a greater Love waiting for us and forgiving us’.
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