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Apostolate of the Suffering
an answer to the man who suffers
CVS Centro Volontari della Sofferenza
(Apostolate of the Suffering) is an association of laymen whose purpose is, with
combined efforts, the apostolate for a complete emancipation of suffering
persons, through a work of evangelization and teaching of catechism directly
carried out by the handicapped.
The Founder of the association,
Msgr Luigi Novarese, personally experienced a long-term stay in a
hospital and the consequent feeling of uselessness and frustration given by a
permanent illness; it was then that he approached the only truth capable of
offering an answer to the suffering man: faith and joining up with Christ
crucified and resurrected. This personal experience allowed Msgr. Novarese (
expert in suffering and in Mary matters) and Sister Elvira
Myriam Psorulla to convey the dramatic appeal from the world of suffering
and the earnest requests of the Blessed Virgin Mary Immaculate to a same answer:
the apostolate of CVS. Its members are suffering people that accept the
exhortation of the Blessed Virgin to discover in Jesus Christ crucified and
resurrected the only offer of sense and salvation for their life and the
unavoidable call to become announcers of the Gospel.
The activity of CVS is
held in cooperation with the Silenziosi Operai della Croce
(Silent Workers of the Cross), an association of consecrated people sprung up
within the same context of evangelization; they are totally devoted to
apostolate as an aswer to the basic need, typical of each charisma, of finding
in the dedication of oneself a total and radical fulfilment.
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