Varese, balloons and banners for the last farewell to Daniele

In the small football field of the oratory San Luigi (Varese) transformed into an open-air church, there is the whole community of Gazzada Schianno for the last farewell to Daniele Paitoni, the 7-year-old boy killed by his father Davide, in the his home in Morazzone (Varese) on New Year’s Day. There is the poster with his smiling photos and the words ‘Ciao Daniele’ of his friends and educators, there is the banner ‘Today up there one more star shines: hello little Daniele’, and then many white and blue balloons that they almost seem to watch over the coffin. “We are here together because we feel very fragile, we are shocked, struck, we are persecuted by feelings of guilt, we cannot accept your death, we have a lot of anger in our hearts, we cannot resist the thought of being powerless”, says the parish priest Don Luigi Silipigni in his homily. “You too, like Jesus, wanted to live and enjoy the life that was given to you, but you too innocent, like the innocent Jesus, were overwhelmed by violence and death and we in front of your little white coffin today are like women in that afternoon on Calvary and we experience the darkness and your absence, the darkness of violence against the innocent “, he adds. “Every right of adults is secondary to that of children, we cannot even take refuge in the laws, it is too comfortable. Children speak with silence, with their eyes, and we must listen to them. Jesus recognized the laws, but if there was a need to ignore the law to help someone, he took responsibility and acted, “he stresses. “The tenderness, compassion, pity, deep affection, the emotion that emanate from you, that emanate from the memory of your will to live and from your smile have already transformed in our hearts into a desire for good, a desire for pity, to help each other, in the desire to embrace mother Silvia and your loved ones: we would like to do everything to help them carry this infinite pain. From your little white coffin the desire to be more human is already starting to germinate in our hearts “, he concludes. the parish priest before the balloons can fly away and the coffin reach the city cemetery.