Solemnity of St. Camillus de Lellis 2024 – Homily of H.E. Rev. Benoni AMBARUS

A few months ago Father Umberto d’Angelo, a Camillian and chaplain at St. John Lateran Hospital – Rome – gave me a volume with the life of St. Camillus, and reading it, at a  certain point I had an inner reaction, thus saying, “But you’re a bit exaggerated, Camillus! especially when there is that episode of which it is told that a person sees St. Camillus  particularly dejected, suffering and he says, “Of course, I am eating bread of sorrow” because he  had seen in that day a whole series of very tiring situations, stories of sick people who lived in particularly uncomfortable and abandoned conditions.

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