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"Some members of Sant’Egidio, like the high school students who started it, wanted to follow Christ and so began to serve; others, seeing something useful happening, joined in the service and, sometimes, to their great surprise, found Christ there. Valentino is in this second camp, still a bit alarmed at the idea of finding something alive underneath what was supposed to be a clean-cut set of helpful logistical tasks. He carries more supplies than the others but says fewer words. With a grunt and a gesture he splits the others into groups of three or four, and they divide the supplies and disappear every which way into the labyrinth.

If, however subtly, we start to think of “deserved mercy” and “undeserved mercy,” we are no longer speaking of mercy."

- strange mercies