Spiritual Talk – Fr. Ho talks about St. John Bosco (8)

by Kenny Cheng
2016-10-22

When St. John Bosco was a child, he loved to raise birds and his experiences taught him valuable lessons on excessive attachment to worldly things. Once, he grew attached to a little chickadee that he had nursed to maturity and taught to sing. But one day, he returned home to find it motionless and bloody in its cage, killed by a cat. He was disconsolate for a long time until his mother Margherita taught him: the things of this world are fleeting and vanish in an instant. At the tender age of ten, John Bosco resolved to no longer attach himself to worldly things, but to intently love God. As an adult, this resolution was severely tested by the death of his friend Louis Comollo and he had to remake the promise in order to detach himself from such worldly considerations.

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