Letter to Pope,
John Paul II
State of Vatican

Your Holiness We thank you for having invited us and for having received us with your presence today. Your attention to our small and large pain, which shows us the signs that Christ, the Father, and Brother are alive and near to us. We are here today, each one of us with our own story, with our own memories, with our own agonies, carrying with us in our hearts the love that, on October 8, 2001, departed with that final flight. Each of us would want to tell you something about our loved ones, how important they were, how much they were loved, and how much they loved, but the weakness inflicted by the pain, by the shock of the absurdity of the event, with the human negligence, often confuses the mind, causes one to repeat the question to whom human reason finds it difficult to give a response to the question: why? Those of us who have Faith, have faltered with the disciples after the death of Jesus, searching for a reference point, a new sense of our own life after that day, October 8. “It is done with your will,” are words that we perhaps said with thoughtfulness, as a habit, in the prayers recited that we learn as children. In a difficult time like this, we accept it, comforted from the recent Easter Sunday, the day in which Christ was victorous over death, and renewed the promise of his love for humanity, reviving in us the hope of joining our loved ones again in Your love...

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