EDITORIAL

�Also in summer, I need you�. With these words, in the past weeks, the Community of Sant�Egidio pointed out the problem of the elderly who are living this summer a time of deep loneliness, especially in big cities.

Too often, there have been reports about the dramatic stories of lonely old people, found dead after a long time. In summer, as people leave the cities empty, the elderly stay at home and lack reference-points, meetings and support. If they undergo some illness, a small home accident or have any need, loneliness becomes a tragedy whose consequences are sometimes irretrievable.

Is it possible to do anything? In some Italian cities, the Community activated hotlines for help and distributed guides with useful addresses. These tools are also available on our site.

But our proposal also includes small actions that anyone can make in order to support a person in need: knocking at the door, finding out that mail was not picked up for some time, reporting something anomalous� in a word: giving up indifference.

For this reason we say to anyone receiving this newsletter: �in summer, I need you�. It is beautiful to be addressed such words, while we often feel so irrelevant. Maybe, very few, small actions of ours can really save a life or, at least, make it less sad. And who saves a life, saves the world.

07/31/02 - Tirana (Albania) � Special days at Tirana�s Psychiatric Hospital

07/29/02 - Matola (Mozambique) � Baby girl born from one of the first women undergoing treatment with antiretroviral drugs

07/29/02 - Livorno (Italy) � Lottery to support the program to combat AIDS.

07/24/02 - Machava (Mozambique)- Hope starts again with antiretroviral treatment

07/23/02 - Naples (Italy) - Also in summer, I need you!

07/23/02 - Toronto (Canada) � World Youth Day: the prayer of the Community of Sant�Egidio

07/22/02 - Matola (Mozambique) - Literacy and health education courses at the nutritional center

07/22/02 - Guinea Bissau � Eyeglasses for about 250 children and adults

 NO TO THE DEATH PENALTY - NEWS 

august 4, Sunday: Liturgy of the Sunday
XVIII of Ordinary Time

august 5, Monday: Memory of the Poor

august 6, Tuesday: Memory of the Mother of the Lord
Feast of the transfiguration of the Lord on Mount Tabor. Remembrance of Hiroshima and the first atomic bomb. Memorial of Pope Paul VI, who died in 1978.

august 7, Wednesday: Memory of the Saints and the Prophets

august 8, Thursday: Memory of the Church

august 9, Friday: Memory of Jesus crucified

august 10, Saturday: Sunday Vigil
Memorial of St. Lawrence, deacon and martyr (258). He reorganized service to the poor of Rome. Prayer for the poor and for those who serve them in the name of the Gospel.

august 11, Sunday: Liturgy of the Sunday
XIX of Ordinary Time. Memorial of St. Clare of Assisi (1193-1253), disciple of St. Francis on the way of poverty and evangelical simplicity.

august 12, Monday: Memory of the Poor

august 13, Tuesday: Memory of the Church

august 14, Wednesday: Memory of the Saints and the Prophets
Memorial of St. Maximilian Kolbe, priest who accepted death as a martyr of love in the concentration camp of Auschwitz, to save the life of another man.

august 15, Thursday: Feast of the Assumption
Feast of the Assumption

august 16, Friday: Memory of Jesus crucified
Memorial of St. Stephen (+1038), king of Hungary. He was converted to the Gospel and promoted the evangelization of his country.

august 17, Saturday: Sunday Vigil

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