In the worst moment of the health emergency in Italy, the pope noted that the pandemic reminded humanity of an important message.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> The pontiff said the most effective ingredient in this moment is solidarity. There's no shortage of such examples, thanks to companies and individuals alike.<\/p>\n In Madrid, this luxury car rental company decided to donate the revenue earned during the lockdown period to Caritas.<\/p>\n During the year, this group of gondoliers participates in regattas and takes tourists around Venice. During the pandemic, they decided to help out by delivering groceries to the elderly.<\/p>\n ELENA ALMANSI<\/strong> Mar\u00eda is a Venezuelan living in Italy. After her 46-year-old compatriot died of COVID-19 in Lombardy, she decided to welcome the man's widow and two kids into her own home.<\/p>\n MAR\u00cdA \u00c1VILA<\/strong> Lotti and Desir\u00e8e are two nurses who work in an Italian hospital. After a particularly devastating shift, they decided to cheer up medical personnel with a rendition of \u201cImagine.\u201d Their video made huge waves on social media.<\/p>\n LOTTI AND DESIR\u00c9E<\/strong> One could say these and so many other stories embody the messages the pope has given throughout the pandemic.<\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> They're small stories that emerge as a response to pain or to situations of need. They embody the spirit the pope called for from an empty St. Peter's Square, on a rainy evening one March 27.<\/p>\n Nobody saves himself alone.<\/p>\n Javier Romero<\/p>\n Translation: Claudia Torres<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May 10, 2020. Solidarity is the pope's recipe for facing the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/HrMCB85CJBk","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bsolidarietaeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bsolidarietaint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWe have realized that we are in the same boat, all of us fragile and disoriented, but at the same time, important and needed.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nRow Venice
\n\u201cWe decided to use our boats, our time and our energy to help deliver groceries to people's homes. That way we combine our passion with volunteer work.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\nVenezuelan immigrant
\n\u201cI decided to help Nathalye in a concrete way. At 6 a.m., I took the car and went looking for the three of them, Nathalye and her two kids, to bring them to my house.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\nNurses, Rivoli AslTo3 Hospital
\nDesir\u00e9e: I was especially tired and discouraged. I needed to let everything out.<\/em>
\nLotti: In that moment, I remembered that we have a piano in the hospital, and I said to myself, 'Let's go play.'<\/em><\/p>\n
\nMay we not think only about what we lack, but about the good we can do.<\/em><\/p>\n