Courtesy: Caliero 11, May 2017
Cochabamba (Bolivia), March end 2017: The Rector Major presided over the Team Visit to Interamerica Region. At the heart of all these events and meetings there shown the appealing face of Fr. Luigi Bolla, all painted up in the bright colors of his beloved Achuar, with the added dignity of a long white beard. In this month of May, the Provincial of Peru will lead a pilgrimage in the traditional style. He will be carrying with him the mortal remains of Fr. Bolla over land and rivers. The revered missionary will return from Lima to Kuyuntza, to the beloved land and people where Don Bosco's son had been “all things to all" (1 Cor 9: 22). "We are burying our dear missionary brother, Don Luigi, once again," I would like to tell the Salesians during this Bolivian Visit, "but we are careful not to bury also the missionary spirit of our communities and our provinces!" This is the ardent and confident prayer that we place this Marian month in the hands of the Help of Christians at Valdocco: Help us, dear Mother, “let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of missionary vigour" (see Evangelii Gaudium 109).